Imposition of a public service obligation pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92 — Further alteration of the public service obligation imposed in respect of the Hof-Bayreuth-Frankfurt am Main routes
Date: 2001-04-18
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, air transport, airline, inland transport, public service, transport planning

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Official Journal of the European Communities

18.4.2001

Imposition of a public service obligation pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92

Further alteration of the public service obligation imposed in respect of the Hof-Bayreuth-
Frankfurt am Main routes

(2001/C 113/07)

1. The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has
decided to revise as follows the public service obligation in
respect of scheduled air services on the Hof-Bayreuth-
Frankfurt am Main route, which was imposed pursuant to
Article 4(1)(a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2408/92 of
23 July 1992 on access for Community air carriers for
routes and published in Official
intra-Community air
the European Communities C 199 of 25 June
Journal of
1998, page 10, as amended by Official
the
European Communities C 348 of 5 December 2000, page 6.

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2. The public service obligations are as follows:

2.1. Routes

Scheduled air services on the Hof-Bayreuth-Frankfurt
am Main route, or
scheduled air
services on the Hof-Frankfurt am Main route.

alternatively:

2.2. Minimum frequency

There must be at least three flights in each direction
every day from Monday to Friday with the possibility
of connection with onward flights on routes from
Frankfurt. This requirement applies all year round. A
reduced service is possible between Christmas and the
New Year.

The following slots are reserved at Frankfurt am Main:

into Frankfurt:

7.30 a.m.

11.40 a.m.

8.10 p.m.

out of Frankfurt:

8.30 a.m.

5.30 p.m.

8.45 p.m..

2.5. Type of aircraft

The services must be operated using pressurised
aircraft with a minimum capacity of 36 seats.

Airlines are referred in particular to the technical and
operational conditions for the airports of Hof and
Bayreuth (see civil aviation handbook for the Federal
Republic of Germany). Details of
special
arrangements for
the use of Bayreuth airport are
available from the Bayerisches Staatsministerium f(cid:252)r
(089)
Wirtschaft, Verkehr und Technologie
21 62-27 08, Fax (089) 21 62-25 88).

further

(Tel.

2.3. Seating capacity

2.6. Fares

At least 540 seats per week (36 seats per flight, three
five days per week) between
flights per
alternatively
Hof-Bayreuth-Frankfurt
between Hof-Frankfurt am Main.

am Main or

day,

These requirements apply all year round.

2.4. Timetables

The main basic fare for a single flight between Hof or
Bayreuth and Frankfurt am Main may not exceed the
main basic fare for a single flight between N(cid:252)remberg
and Frankfurt am Main by more than 5 %. The main
basic fare for a single flight between N(cid:252)remberg and
Frankfurt am Main was DEM 347 in February 2001.

Interline agreements based on IATA rules granting
through fares must be observed.

2.7. Bookings

The flights are to be operated between 6 a.m. out of
Hof and 11.30 p.m.
into Hof. Where Bayreuth is
flights must be operated via Bayreuth
included, all
with the exception of
flight out of Hof
(arriving in Frankfurt at 8.10 p.m.).

the last

Flights must be marketed by means of at least one
computerised reservation system.

2.8. Continuity of service

Alternatively, all flights may also be operated on the
Hof-Frankfurt am Main route without a stopover in
Bayreuth.

The number of flights cancelled for reasons directly
attributable to the carrier must not exceed 2 % of
the number of flights scheduled in any year.

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3. Invitation to tender

Community carriers are referred to the following.

In so far as by 1 October 2001, no air carrier has submitted
to the Bavarian Staatsministerium f(cid:252)r Wirtschaft, Verkehr
und Technologie written proof of the commencement of
air services on 1 November 2001 in accordance with the
public service obligations and without requesting compen-
sation, Germany will, pursuant
the
abovementioned Regulation, limit access to this route to a
single carrier and put out the right to operate these services
from 1 November 2001 to public tender.

to Article 4(1)(d) of

In accordance with Article 4(1)(d) of Council Regulation
(EEC) No 2408/92, the relevant invitation to tender will

be published in the Official
Communities.

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of

the European

Further details can be obtained from

Bayerische Staatsministerium f(cid:252)r Wirtschaft, Verkehr und
Technologie
D-80525 M(cid:252)nchen
Tel. (089) 21 62-23 92 or 21 62-23 50
Fax (089) 21 62-25 88.

4. These public service obligations replace those obligations
contained in the Commission communication which were
published in Official
the European Communities
C 199 of 25 June 1998, page 10, as amended by Official
Journal of the European Communities C 348 of 5 December
2000, page 6.

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