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Sanctions Eyed for Carriers Causing Congestion in Athens FIR

Sanctions Eyed for Carriers Causing Congestion in Athens FIR

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The Eleftherios Venizelos Athens International Airport (AIA) is expected to move to IATA Level 3, the highest level of coordinated slot management, beginning with the upcoming winter scheduling season. The same regime will also apply during the 2027 summer season.

According to the Sunday edition of “To Vima”, the change is now considered necessary as steadily rising passenger traffic, the limitations of the existing aging air traffic control systems, geopolitical developments in the Middle East and the airport’s major expansion works place increasing pressure on the operation of Greece’s largest airport.

The objective of the transition to the stricter operating regime is to address the concentration of flights during peak periods—primarily early in the morning—when airlines seek to secure the most commercially attractive slots in order to facilitate connections and maximize load factors.

This practice, combined with deviations from scheduled operations throughout the day, has resulted in the chain-reaction delays recorded in recent days, affecting the entire daily flight schedule.

The issue was the focus of a high-level meeting attended by representatives of the Civil Aviation

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