Under the Aviation Regulation Act, 2001, the Commission discharges Ireland’s obligations under Council Regulation (EEC) No. 95/93, as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 793/2004.
These are:
- to designate Community airports located in Ireland as schedules facilitated or coordinated as appropriate, and
- to appoint a schedules facilitator or coordinator as necessary.
At a schedules facilitated airport, a schedules facilitator assists the operations of air carriers who operate or propose to operate to or from that airport. At a coordinated airport, an air carrier may not operate in the absence of a slot allocated by the airport coordinator.
Following a full capacity analysis carried out in the latter half of 2006, the Commission designated Dublin Airport as coordinated from March 2007 onwards. All documentation in relation to that decision has been published and is available through the documents section of this webpage.
Dublin Airport is currently the only Irish coordinated airport. The Commission appointed Airport Coordination Ltd, a UK company based at Heathrow, to act as coordinator up to March 2011.