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he Asia-Pacific aviation market is growing. It already captures some 33% of all air travel, and with economic maturity bringing increasing amounts of disposable income across the region, that figure will only increase. International Air Transport Association (IATA) figures confirm that China’s economic slowdown will not halt the underlying trend. China is expected to overtake the US as the world’s largest passenger market by 2029, and by 2034 there will be some 1.19 billion Chinese air passengers, about 750 million more than today.
Congestion is a concern, given such massive air traffic increases. China, like many other countries in the region, has been busy building new airports in anticipation of the growth. Nevertheless, managing access to the key hubs will be central to an efficient air transport system. Hong Kong and Singapore show the way forward. They use IATA’s Worldwide Slot Guidelines (WSG) to achieve an optimal use of available capacity. The WSG allocates slots according to historical precedence, as long as an airline uses that slot 80% of the time. The process is used by the majority of
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the world’s slot-constrained airports " and works well.
China, on the other hand, is charting its own course. Though the Chinese Air Traffic Management Bureau is slowly adapting procedures to WSG methodology, work remains to be done.
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China allocates slots at many primary and secondary airports. A total of 11 Chinese
airports are designated as level 3 – the most congested and therefore dependent on some form of slot management. In contrast to the WSG
recommendations, which treat all " slots equally, China administers slots according to two different processes – one domestic, one international. “The timings are altogether different for the two allocations,” says Lara Maughan, IATA’s manager for Worldwide Airport Slots. “International follows the WSG timelines to some degree. However, domestic are confirmed much later, which means the slot pool for international is limited during their allocation, and therefore the ability
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