S.L. 499.20 Art. 3Scheduling co- ordinator.

(1) A scheduling co-ordinator shall be appointed in accordance with the following procedure: the Airport operator, after having consulted the air carriers using the airport regularly, shall submit to the Director for his written approval or otherwise, a list of not more than three persons who are knowledgeable in and have experience of aircraft scheduling; in the event that the Director approves more than one person, the Airport operator shall appoint the nominee of his choice.

(2) The scheduling co-ordinator shall hold office for a period of four years, which may be renewed for a further term.

(3) The Airport operator and the Director shall jointly have the power to dismiss the scheduling co-ordinator if he knowingly fails to observe his duties under subregulation (5)(a) to (d).

(4) The scheduling co-ordinator shall be solely responsible for the scheduling of slots. He may consult the Airport Scheduling Committee on the scheduling of the slots, and, subject to the provisions of regulation 6, his decision shall be final.

(5) In the exercise of his duties, the scheduling co-ordinator shall:

(a) act in an independent, neutral, non-discriminatory and transparent manner;

(b) ensure that air carriers’ requirements are met;

(c) ensure that aircraft, passengers, cargo and mail are handled in the most efficient and expeditious manner;

(d) monitor the use of slots; and

(e) participate, as appropriate, in scheduling conferences of air carriers or their representative international organisations.

(6) The scheduling co-ordinator shall have the power to request any information from any air carrier that may be required in order for him to carry out his scheduling responsibilities.

(7) Air carriers operating or intending to operate at the airport shall provide the scheduling co-ordinator with such information as may be requested in terms of subregulation (6).

(8) The scheduling co-ordinator shall, on request and within a reasonable time, make available for review to the Airport operator, the Director and air carriers the following information:

(a) historical slots, in a chronological manner, of all air carriers at the airport;

(b) requested slots (initial submissions) by air carriers and chronologically, for all air carriers;

(c) all allocated slots and outstanding slot requests, listed individually in chronological order, by air carriers, for all air carriers;

(d) remaining available slots; and

(e) full details on the criteria being used in the allocation of slots.

(9) The information in subregulation (8) shall be made available, unless otherwise notified, at the latest at the time of the relevant scheduling conferences and as appropriate during conferences and thereafter.