Today, the Commission adopted an extension to the slot relief rules of the 2022 summer scheduling season, running from 28 March 2022 until 29 October 2022. Instead of the normal requirement to use at least 80% of a given slot series, airlines will only have to use 64% to retain historic rights in those slots during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. While air traffic has not yet fully recovered to 2019 levels, it reached levels above 70% in the second half of the summer 2021 scheduling season. (....)