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A pure-cash system provides incentives for incumbent carriers to buy (scarce) slots and leave them empty to limit competition. British Airways would definitely

by pmyteh 5y ago

A pure-cash system provides incentives for incumbent carriers to buy (scarce) slots and leave them empty to limit competition. British Airways would definitely do this at Heathrow if allowed, for example. Also, it potentially reduces actual passenger numbers, lowering the airport operator's take from duty-free and catering, which I suspect pays much more than the slot fees.

chrismorgan 5y ago
Perhaps you could add a clause “if you don’t fly the slot, then you pay most of what you would have spent on the flight”—high enough to ruin the perverse incentive, but low enough to encourage not making the flight unnecessarily. And perhaps an arrangement that most of the surplus goes to some charity or other.
fshbbdssbbgdd 5y ago
They should auction the slots every month. There should be no grandfathering or other incentive to hoard.
- skohan 5y ago
  Slots for the next month? People book flights months in advance.
- bushbaba 5y ago
  That could end up raising the cost of flying
  - runarberg 5y ago
    Fine. Air travel is already way to subsidized, especially given our current climate emergency.
  - maxwell86 5y ago
    That’s the point. The cost of flying currently does not account for the damage that planes do to our planet.
runarberg 5y ago
I think that is anti-competitive and if it isn’t illegal already it ought to be.