Mechanisms for supervision and management of use of slots at fully coordinated airports in Vietnam

Mechanisms for supervision and management of use of slots at fully coordinated airports in Vietnam

“Slot” means the scheduled off-block time and in-block time of an aircraft on a specific date serving as a permission to use the full range of airport infrastructure necessary to arrive at or depart from an airport.

- Supervision of operation of slots

+ Every airport authority shall supervise operation of slots at the airport under its management, submit a report thereon to the CAAV.

+ Every airport or aerodrome operator shall establish a database, invest in information technology system to receive and process data on operation of slots by airlines and submit a report to the CAAV and aviation authority.

+ The airline or the ground services unit authorized by the airline shall provide accurate data on AOBT and AIBT to airport and aerodrome operators to perform the tasks as prescribed.

- Any airline that opens ticket sales or makes reservations without historic slots or confirmed slots will not be considered to have additional slots confirmed for intended flight routes.

- Management of aircrafts parked overnight

(1) The airport or aerodrome operator shall confirm the number of aircrafts parked overnight as registered by airlines in a manner that is appropriate to the airport capacity as prescribed in point c of clause 1 of Article 90 of Circular 29/2021/TT-BGTVT.

(2) Each Vietnamese airline shall formulate an operation plan appropriate to the number of aircrafts parked overnight specified in point a of this clause;

(3) Any airline for which the number of aircrafts parked overnight in one season has been confirmed shall continue to maintain such number of aircrafts parked overnight in the next season.

(4) In case an airline fails to ensure the confirmed number of aircraft parked overnight, resulting in the apron being overloaded, the airport operator reserves the right to refuse to accept the flight of such airline and shall notify its refusal to the air navigation service provider or airline and report to the CAAV and the airport authority.

- The CAAV shall provide airport and aerodrome operators with data on confirmed slots immediately after sending it to airlines in order for such airport and aerodrome operators to compare and process data for reporting as prescribed in point (1).

- The airport or aerodrome operator shall grant an account to the airport authority for its access to the airport’s flight database.

Circular 52/2023/TT-BGTVT takes effect on February 15, 2024.

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