Home > All journals > Air and Space Law > 45(Special issue) >
$15.00 - Rental (PDF) *
$29.00 - Article (PDF) *
Benjamyn I. Scott (ed.)
Air and Space Law
Volume 45, Special issue (2020) pp. 195 – 272
https://doi.org/10.54648/aila2020057
Abstract
National laws play an important role in the governance of the aviation activities. This is no less the case during the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, where national law has been a vital tool in combating the spread of the virus and offering support to the aviation sector. This report examines different jurisdictions, which have been written by experts in the field of aviation law, where they have addressed the pre-existing national rules in place prior to the pandemic, the measures taken to combat the spread of the virus, the actions taken to help the aviation industry survive, and any reflections on the future post-COVID-19 world.
Keywords
Airlines, Airports, Passengers, Financial Support, Cargo
Extract
With the advent of the Corona virus/COVID-19, airline traffic has dropped off so much because of lack of passenger/shipper demand, and/or governmental sanitation rules, that airlines may wish to use less than 80% of their allocated slots, but then risk a loss of slots. It is a catch 22 situation: either you fly a (near) empty aircraft and keep your slot for better, post COVID times (so-called ghost flights), or you go under 80% and you lose your grandfathered slot right. Governments, other authorities and not in the least the EU, have stepped in to relax the 80/20 rule, at least temporarily. The article is divided into four parts: introduction; air transport under the Corona virus; slot allocation under Corona; slot allocation post Corona.