Capacity Declaration

Airport capacities will be regularly reviewed by the airport managing bodies based on airport operations experience, airport infrastructure changes, environmental restrictions and future demands of airlines. The final airport capacity will be declared by the responsible airport management body, after consultation with the Slot Coordination Committee, latest before the historic precedence deadline for each upcoming season (April for Winter season, September for Summer season).

Declared Capacities

Below find the declared capacities for the current and upcoming season:

Runway Capacities

• per 5 minutes max. 8 movements (4 arrivals / 4 departures)
• per 10 minutes max. 14 movements (7 arrivals / 7 departures)
• per 30 minutes max. 40 movements (max. 19 arrivals / 21 departures)
• per 60 minutes max. 66 movements (max. 36 arrivals / 41 departures)

All capacity control intervals are fixed, non-rolling and with no offset.

2023-03-31_Local_Rule_Additional_Departure_after_2200LT_v01.01.pdf [pdf, 10 KB]

Note:
There are reduced capacities in place for slot allocation during the first and last hour of the airport opening hours .

Reduced capacity for adhoc flights

A reduced capacity for ad-hoc flights will be declared both for arrivals and departures following the Historics Baseline Date. Before slots can be allocated for ad-hoc flights in any half and full hour the declared capacities (30 and 60 minutes capacity intervals) will be reduced by 3 arrivals and 3 departures. Therefore in any half or full hour to (re-) allocate slots there must be a minimum of 4 available slots for 1 ad-hoc flight and 5 available slots for 2 ad-hoc flights.