Operations in the Middle East region remain severely impacted.
ACL has published Guidance on Military action and related airspace restrictions over the Middle East and Gulf Region – see here for the latest version (6).
For Dubai Airports:
The schedule has been deleted until 31st May Capacity continues to be extremely limited. Manual slot coordination is in effect. Airlines are requested to submit requirements to ACL at slots@acl-international.comor via OCS.
For Abu Dhabi:
Airlines should contact the airport directly with any enquiries relating to operations in S26 until advised otherwise.
For Oman airports:
In Muscat, the airport has advised that any additional flights require prior approval, and all repatriation flights must have their slots obtained through the handling agent (Transom).
Duqm, Suhar and Salalah are operating as normal.
For Saudi Arabia airports:
The airspace remains open and commercial flight operations continue. For repatriation flight requests, additional approval from the Saudi authorities is required before slots will be confirmed.
There are adjusted day-to-day processes now in place across certain Saudi Airports for the coordination of short-notice ad-hoc flights as follows:
Al-Ahsa (HOF), Al-Qaisumah (AQI), Damman (DMM): All slot requests for non-based carriers should be submitted in linkedArr-Dep SCR format. Unlinked (Arr only or Dep only) slot requests will be rejected, Some requests may require a referral to the airport and may take longer than usual to respond.
All other Saudi Airports continue with their normal day-to-day processes.
Please contact the applicable ACL team for more information.
Airport Coordination Limited (ACL) coordinate 72 airports worldwide, including 26 UK and Republic of Ireland airports and 35 airports in the Middle East. With all eyes on Qatar for the FIFA World Cup, the region has looked to their Middle-eastern partners to support getting the 1.2 million fans from across the world into the country. Nine of ACL’s Middle-Eastern Airports are supporting this venture.
Here we share our infographic of the passenger flight statistics so far…
Did you know? ACL have a long history of coordinating major international sporting and political events. To find out more, and discover how we can help your airport manage extreme demand, visit our Special Events page – Special Events Coordination
Did you know?
ACL hold all the flight data for slot schedules at our 72 airports, worldwide. Businesses can use this data to support their own planning, operations and analysis. If you would like to know more about our data and get in touch, visit our Data Services page – Data Services
Data analysis by Airport Coordinator, Oliver Thompson. Imagery by Denise Wakeford, Sales and Marketing Lead.
UPDATE 16th June:
All W22 SAL’s have now been issued, including Heathrow which was sent on 16 June 2022.
All W22 SAL’s with the exception of London Heathrow have been issued. Due to a legal challenge involving slots at London Heathrow, we have had to delay the issuance of all SALs at London Heathrow pending legal advice. We will provide a further update no later than Friday 17th June, if the SAL’s have not been distributed by then.
For all our other airports please contact the coordinator if you have not received the message for a particular airport.
Airport Coordination Limited would like to inform you that, following a thorough search and rigorous selection process, the Board of Airport Coordination Limited is pleased to announce the appointment of Neil Garwood as our new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Neil was formerly Managing Director of Southampton Airport, where he had been for ten years, having risen through the ranks after initially joining them as Terminal Operations Manager in 2010.
Neil will succeed Airport Coordination Limited’s departing CEO, Edmond Rose, who is moving on from his role at the end of February. The ACL Board thank Edmond for his outstanding contributions and leadership throughout his time with us and especially through the challenges of this last year.
The Chair of ACL, Lesley Cowley said “I am delighted to welcome Neil to ACL. Whilst our current CEO will be much missed, we are confident that Neil’s experience, drive and values make him an ideal successor to lead ACL as we emerge from the pandemic”.
The new CEO, Neil Garwood said “I am excited to be joining the world’s leading independent airport coordination organisation at a time of seismic change in the industry and very much look forward to continuing to deliver on ACL’s ambition of world class coordination excellence for our customers and stakeholders”.
Neil Garwood, new CEO of Airport Coordination Limited
The Worldwide Airport Slot Board (WASB) issued its recommendation for airport slot alleviation measures covering the Northern Summer 2021 scheduling season. The following provides some initial guidance to give clarity on its application at airports coordinated by ACL to avoid unintended consequences should airlines apply the WASB recommendation immediately.
VALIDITY
The WASB announcement is a recommendation. For a waiver to be applied, the Regulatory or competent authority needs to adopt this recommendation or issue an alternative waiver. Across all ACL airports this has not yet occurred so currently NO waiver for Northern Summer 2021 is being applied.
When the position changes, ACL will update its guidance.
CANCELLATIONS IN ADVANCE OF A WAIVER
Any cancellation made prior to a waiver being issued may impact on your ability to retain the historic slot. For example, a full season slot returned before alleviation has been granted will be returned to the slot pool and reallocated based on the waitlist at that time.
FURTHER GUIDANCE
Once ACL is aware of the detail of any formal waivers, it will review and where necessary provide further guidance. The current guidance on alleviation can be found here.
