Geneva and Zurich are declared "coordinated -level 3- airports", therefore please carefully study the following information on how to deal with such airports:

In Principle

• General and business aviation flights see here
• Airport slots shall be requested at least 3 working days in advance! For out of office procedure click here
• We only accept SCR formatted messages (Slot Clearance Request) to request, change or delete airport slots (please refrain from calling or sending any ASM, SSM or free-text messages/emails!)
• We kindly ask you to follow IATA SSIM chapter 6, your cooperation is appreciated!
• Due to apron planning it is mandatory to send all SCR messages in transit/turn-around format using aircraft subtypes only (e.g. 752 or 753 instead of 757). This is applicable for the submission as well as for any later modifications and cancellations (see IATA SSIM manual chapter 6.2)
• Offers are valid for 3 business days only (IATA SSIM chapter 6.2) and will be cancelled again if no reply received
• SCR's can be sent by email to  or by SITA to ZRHACXH
• For email communication the SSIM chapter 6 formatted message must be plain text (not HTML) placed directly in the E-mail body. No attachments, logos or special characters should be used (IATA SSIM chapter 6.2.1). Please also mind that we do not accept any requests sent from free email accounts!
• Please do not send SCR messages containing more than 30 data lines
• An SCR message does not include any provision for ground handling. Please inform your handling agent separately and well in advance!

Actual Day of Operation

A cleared airport slot is valid on the actual day of operation and needs not to be adjusted in case of operational delays. However, we appreciate receiving an SCR message for new flights and for cancellations.

Note:
For General and Business Aviation flights special conditions apply. Please contact your handling agent.

Geneva Specials

Any changes in aircraft types (including family subtype changes) must be advised by SCR.

Zurich Specials

Flights into/out of SR Technics Maintenance also obligatory require an airport slot. Requests for such ferry flights must be submitted as single lines (no turnaround format) and using service type code "T".

Historics

• The SHL will be sent out latest on the respective deadline date and must be acknowledged from your side. Should you be missing the SHL after this date, please contact us immediately!
• Please mind the deadline "coordinators and airlines agreed on historics" (one week before the submission deadline). Any dispute raised after this date will not be considered!

Submission

• Any submission (incl. historic submission and submission for historic retiming) must cover at least a period of 5 consecutive movements ("series of slot")!
• Historical arrivals cannot be used to submit new departure requests, same applies for historical departure slots ("historical arrival/departure swaps during submission")!
• Flight number changes for historic submission must use code "CR" and not code "F"
• Please submit ad-hoc flights and ad-hoc changes (less than 5 consecutive movements) earliest in February for summer and in September for winter season!

Pre-Conference Activity

• Pre-conference activity is possible after SAL having sent out until Thursday before the start of the IATA schedules conference

Slot Handback

• Please make sure that your waitlist information does correspond with our records. Without correct information we will not be able to improve waitlisted flights during slot handback processing!
• We kindly ask you to send any non-seasonal administrative changes (aircraft, routing and service type changes) only after slot handback processing to ease possible waitlist improvements.
• We only accept requests for ad-hoc flights (less than 5 consecutive movements) and ad-hoc changes after slot handback processing!
• We require 3-5 working days for the slot handback processing and waitlist improvements. During these days we are not able to accept any additional requests or ad-hoc changes for the respective season!

see also Schedules Planning Calendar