Case C-149/25, I Fly: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Symvoulio tis Epikrateias (Council of State, Greece) lodged on 19 February 2025 – I Fly AEROPORIKES YPIRESIES ANONYMI ETAIREIA (I Fly SA), CYCLADESAIR AVIATION GmbH, CYCLADESAIR AVIATION GMBH ΥΠΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΗΜΑ ΑΛΛΟΔΑΠΗΣ (CYCLADIC) and Greenair Aviation GmbH (GreenAir) v Archi Politikis Aeroporias (A.P.A.)
Date: 2025-02-19
Institutions: Court of Justice
Subjects: air traffic, air traffic control, airline, airport, transport capacity, transport planning








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C/2025/2841


2.6.2025






Request for a preliminary ruling from the Symvoulio tis Epikrateias (Council of State, Greece) lodged on 19 February 2025 – I Fly AEROPORIKES YPIRESIES ANONYMI ETAIREIA (I Fly SA), CYCLADESAIR AVIATION GmbH, CYCLADESAIR AVIATION GMBH ΥΠΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΗΜΑ ΑΛΛΟΔΑΠΗΣ (CYCLADIC) and Greenair Aviation GmbH (GreenAir) v Archi Politikis Aeroporias (A.P.A.)


(Case C-149/25, I Fly)

(C/2025/2841)
Language of the case: Greek

Referring court

Symvoulio tis Epikrateias

Parties to the main proceedings


Applicants: I Fly AEROPORIKES YPIRESIES ANONYMI ETAIREIA (I Fly SA), CYCLADESAIR AVIATION GmbH, CYCLADESAIR AVIATION GMBH ΥΠΟΚΑΤΑΣΤΗΜΑ ΑΛΛΟΔΑΠΗΣ (CYCLADIC), Greenair Aviation GmbH (GreenAir)

Defendant: Archi Politikis Aeroporias (A.P.A.)

Interveners: FRAPORT PERIFEREIAKA AERODROMIA TIS ELLADAS A ANONYMI ETAIREIA, FRAPORT PERIFEREIAKA AERODROMIA TIS ELLADAS B ANONYMI ETAIREIA

Questions referred







1.


Must the provisions of Regulation No 95/93 (1), as amended (in particular Articles 2(a), (g) and (i), 3, 4, 8, 10 and 14(1) thereof) – read in the light of, first, Article 15(1) of Regulation No 1008/2008 (2) (which enshrines the right of Community air carriers to operate intra-Community air services) and, second, Articles 16 and 52(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union – be interpreted as exclusively and exhaustively laying down the terms and conditions for the allocation of slots at airports designated as ‘coordinated’, thereby precluding national regulatory provisions which






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on the one hand, exclude from the allocation of slots the category of air carriers operating flights entirely under Visual Flight Rules (‘VFR’);










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on the other hand, extend the application of the slot allocation system to airports designated as ‘schedules facilitated’?














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Or, by contrast, must the abovementioned provisions of Regulation No 95/93 – interpreted, in particular, in the light of recital 5 of Regulation No 793/2004 (according to which ‘specific activities’ may not be subject to slot allocation rules where those are not necessary) and Article 19(1) of Regulation No 1008/2008 (according to which ‘national’ slot allocation rules may also be adopted) – be interpreted as giving Member States the power to lay down detailed provisions on the application of that regulation






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on the one hand, by prohibiting the allocation of slots to the category of air carriers operating flights entirely under VFR;










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on the other hand, by extending the slot allocation system to airports designated as schedules facilitated?










(1)  Council Regulation (EEC) No 95/93 of 18 January 1993 on common rules for the allocation of slots at Community airports (OJ 1993, L 14, p. 1).

(2)  Regulation (EC) No 1008/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 September 2008 on common rules for the operation of air services in the Community (Recast) (OJ 2008, L 293, p. 1).


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/2841/oj
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