[Translation for information purposes only] AEROPUERTO INTERNACIONAL DE LA CIUDAD DE MEXICO, S.A. DE C.V. OPERATING RULES CHAPTER III GUIDELINES FOR THE ALLOCATION OF LANDING AND TAKEOFF TIMES
GENERAL RULES OF OPERATION FOR MEXICO CITY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CHAPTER III 3.1. GUIDELINES FOR THE ALLOCATION OF LANDING AND TAKEOFF TIMES 3.1.1 OPERATING TIMES Mexico City International Airport has a regular 24-hour operation schedule, from 00:00 to 23:59 hrs. (H-24, PIA - AGA 1-0), so that licensee or permit holders of scheduled passenger air transportation and non-scheduled passenger charter air transportation may request the allocation of landing and takeoff times during these hours. (Art. 90 RLA). The hours of operation for air transport flights, non-scheduled cargo charter flights and for maintenance and repair work performed at the workshops located at the airport, shall be from 23:00 to 23:59 hrs, and from 00:00 to 05:59 hrs. (Decree dated January 13, 1994). The landing and takeoff times allocated to scheduled air cargo carriers prior to the effective date of these operating rules shall be honored. 3.1.2. LANDING AND TAKEOFF HOURS Landing and takeoff hours are the hours allocated by the manager of the Mexico City Airport (AICM, for its Spanish acronym) to a carrier or aircraft operator for the organization and planning of flights at the airport (Art. 93 RLA). These times shall only be allocated to air transport service licensees or permittees, operating aircraft equipped with airframe complying with the requirements established by the technical and operational limitations of the AICM (ANNEX 14 - ICAO). 3.1.3. CAPACITY FOR HANDLING LANDING AND TAKEOFF OPERATIONS. The Secretariat of Communications and Transport, through the Navigation Services in Mexican Airspace determined, pursuant to the safety standards, efficiency criteria, aircraft capacity, flight schedules, weather conditions and airspace limitations, and based on the recommendations of the Operation and Schedules Committee, by studying the capacity of the airfield facilities, i.e., runways, taxiways, platforms and the maximum number of passengers that can be served per hour at the terminal buildings, the above based on the standards set by the Federal Aviation Administration (FM) in its paper called Airport Design Standard Configuration AC/150/5300: that the number of landings and takeoffs that can be served per hour at the Mexico City International Airport (Annex A) is 54 (fifty four). This capacity shall be adjusted for the periods during which work shall be performed on runways, platforms, taxiways and terminals buildings or based on circumstances that may affect the number of landings and takeoffs at the airport, primarily considering the opinion of the Mexican Airspace Navigation Services. (Art. 94 RLA).
3.1.4. PRIORITIES FOR THE ALLOCATION OF LANDING AND TAKEOFF TIMES The airport manager shall determine landing and takeoff hours for all aircraft as well as shift priorities, based on the recommendations of the Operation and Schedules Committee, and considering also: 1.) Efficiency and safety criteria, as well as the following priorities: 1.1) Flights shall have the following priority; 1.1.1) Scheduled passenger flights, 1.1.2) Non-scheduled charter passenger flights, 1.1.3) Scheduled cargo flights, 1.1.4) Non-scheduled cargo charter flights; 1.2) The air carrier that occupied a certain schedule during a prior period shall have priority over such schedule; 1.3) The airport's operating hours; 1.4) Definition of times on the platform, according to the airframe size classification, number of passengers, and critical capacity by aircraft type on platform; (*see tables 1.4.1 and 1.4.2). 1.5) The operating capacity of airport and complementary service providers; 1.6) The availability of non-utilized times/schedules, and 1.7) Compliance with the requirements for the processing of hours/schedule requests. (Art. 95 RLA). 3.1.5. REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PROCESSING OF HOURS/SCHEDULE REQUESTS. I. Carriers and aircraft operators requiring the allocation of takeoff and landing times for the beginning of the Summer or Winter season shall submit a written application or shall submit the relevant information in magnetic format in accordance with Annex "C" which shall be submitted with at least 20 working days prior to the date operations begin. II. Carriers and aircraft operators requiring the allocation of additional landing and takeoff times or the allocation of times different to the ones they already have must submit a written application or shall submit the relevant information in magnetic format in accordance with Annex "C" to the airport manager, with copy to the Operation and Schedules Committee pointing out the route intended to be covered and the type of aircraft to be used.
i) TABLE 1.4.1 *1.4 Definition of platform times, based on the airframe size classification is described below. (pending) *Aircraft classification Maximum take off weight Kg Airframe classification Platform times Boarding Disembarking Disembarking Boarding A Up to 7000 Lightweight 30 min. 15 min. 15 min. B(F 3) 7,001 to 18,000 Minor 40 min. 25 min. 25 min. C(F 2 A) 18,001 to 65,000 Medium weight 60 min. 25 min. 25 min. C(F 2 B) 65,001 to 135,000 Medium weight 90 min. 45 min. 45 min. D(F 1) 135,000 or more Heavy weight 120 min. 45 min. 60 min. Note: times are only for reference purposes. *1.4 The critical capacity per aircraft type, according to airport and complementary services on the platforms of the Mexico City International Airport are described below: TABLE 1.4.2 Number of Slots available 68, critical capacity per service and stay. Heavy aircraft 747 777 767 A300 A310 MD11 707 DC8 A340 DC10 Otros Critical availability per slot 9 5 1 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 Medium weight aircraft 757 727 A320 A319 MD80 737 DC9 FK10 Otros Critical availability per slot 11 9 15 0 3 3 6 0 0 Minor aircraft ATR4 ATR7 CRJ5 Light weight DASH8 2 2 0 aircraft All types Critical Critical availability 9 0 0 0 availability per per slot slot 0 Note : This table shall be modified based on changes in capacity and infrastructure. III. IV. Applications made in the forms described in Annex "C" shall be addressed and submitted to the Subgerencia del Centro de Control Operativo (Deputy Managment Office of the Operation Control Center) with a copy to the AICM General Commandership. Applications from carriers or aircraft operators who are overdue on their payments related to airport and air flight navigation services and submitted to the AICM shall be dismissed and may only be considered when the applicant becomes current with respect to such payments. 3.1.6. ALLOCATION OF LANDING AND TAKEOFF TIMES. I. The allocation of landing and takeoff times for the beginning of the Summer or Winter season shall be available 3 business days after the Subgerencia del Centro de Control Operativo has received all
applications for the allocation of times/schedules to airlines operating regularly in the AICM. II. III. IV. The allocation of additional times or times different to the ones airlines have already allocated shall be available 3 business days after the date of application. Documents evidencing the allocation of landing and takeoff times shall be delivered to the relevant airlines 3 business days after all duly authorized applications have been collected at the offices of the Subgerencia del Centro de Control Operativo; and to that end, the CCO Schedule Allocation Unit shall inform to the different airlines, by telephone, by fax or by electronic means, that the relevant information is available. Also, such Unit shall be responsible for providing the SENEAM and the DGAC with information regarding the allocation of times/schedules. The AICM manager shall allocate landing and takeoff times based on the provisions of the preceding paragraphs; the information on the number of landings and takeoffs allocated shall be available to stakeholders and the general public at the offices of the Subgerencia del Centro de Control Operativo. V. Carriers and aircraft operators shall be subject to the hours of operation allocated by the airport management, so that as of August 1, 2001, SENEAM shall not accept flight plans under the Stored Flight Plan Program whose Estimated Time of Arrival (ETD) fails to comply with the times allocated. (CIRCULAR LETTER DG 0084-08-2001 issued due to saturation conditions signed by the SENEAM, AICM and DGAC). VI. VII. VIII. IX. SENEAM shall verify and compare the times allocated with the flight plan stored for each airline according to Annex "A", and shall notify any discrepancies found to the management and the Airport General Commandership, pursuant to the Airport Act, Article 63, the Civil Aviation Act, Article 87, fraction XII and the Airport Regulations, Article 99, fraction II. The holder of a license or permit for the provision of scheduled or nonscheduled passenger or cargo air transport services who operates without allocated landing or takeoff times shall be penalized pursuant to the current regulations. The airport management shall restrict and condition departure times and airport services, based on the operational airport activity, which shall be reflected in the performance rate, which shall be analyzed by the Subcommittee on Delays. Scheduled or non-scheduled passenger and cargo carriers needing to operate the following types of flights: extra, concentration, training, transfer and testing, shall submit an application to the aviation authority and the airport management at least 4 hours in advance, which approval
shall be subject to availability of times and airport services, and the application shall follow the relevant flowchart for the allocation of times/schedule. (Attached hereto). Flowchart for applications of takeoff and landing times (to be submitted 4 hours in advance) (item 3.1.6. ALLOCATION OF LANDING AND TAKEOFF TIMES, paragraph IX). 3 AIRLINE 1) AIRLINE STAFF SENDS SCHEDULE APPLICATION TO THE AIRPORT MANAGEMENT WITH COPI TO THE DGAC COMMANDERSHIP. DGAC GENERAL COMMANDERSHIP 2) COMMANDERSHIP/DGAC SHALL GRANT OPERATION AUTHORIZATION TO BEGIN ALLOCATING SCHEDULE, NOTIFYING THE APPLICANT AND AIRPORT MANAGEMENT FOR ALLOCATION OF HOURS/SCHEDULE. 4. AIRLINE AIRPORT MANAGEMENT 3) AIRLINE SHALL SUBMIT APPLICATION WITH COMMANDERSHIP AUTHORIZATION STAMP TO AIRPORT MANAGEMENT DGAC GENERAL COMMANDERSHIP SENEAM CONTROL TOWER SUPERVISOR 4) MANAGEMENT SHALL COORDINATE WITH SENEAM TO ALLOCATE SCHEDULE 5) MANAGEMENT SHALL RECEIVE APPLICATION AND PROCEED TO LOAD IN THE SYSTEM THE SCHEDULE ALLOCATED, REPORTING THE SCHEDULE TO THE COMMANDERSHIP/DGAC AND TO SENEAM X. Any hours/schedule allocated to the different airlines shall be honored, pursuant to the compliance records issued by the Subcommittee for Delays and this rating shall be considered for future allocations. Xl. When two or more airlines compete for the same hours/schedule, it shall be awarded to the airline: A. That has the oldest operating record at the airport. B. Operates with a higher rate of compliance in its schedules. (pursuant to the previous paragraph). C. Operates the relevant itinerary for a longer period of time in the same season. XII. Carriers or aircraft operators shall not be allowed to land or takeoff when, for any reason, the airport of origin or destination does not have the necessary air navigation services, notwithstanding the provisions of Article 55 of the Law.
XIII. XIV. If a schedule application can not be granted, the next closest time/schedule before or after the requested time shall be offered, and, if requested, the applicant shall be provided with information about the licensee occupying the times in between. An airline may not apply for a schedule that does not intend to use; if the airline frequently operates hours/schedules other than those allocated it shall lose its rights on the allocated landing and takeoff times, notwithstanding the penalties established by the Aeronautical Authority. XV. When a schedule is used and fails to comply with the minimum 85% compliance rate during its validity, it shall be revoked by the airport management who shall consider delays, cancellations and attributable situations. XVI. A schedule that will not be used by a licensee or permit holders, shall promptly be reinstated to the airport management if suspension is temporary and immediate (sic) within 72 hours, and in the event of scheduled temporary cancellations after 7 working days. 3.1.7. SCHEDULES CONSIDERED WHEN RATING DELAYS AND CANCELLATIONS: The Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) based on the records provided for such purpose by the Subgerencia del Centro de Control Operativo shall be taken as a basis; carriers and aircraft operators shall be responsible for observing the landing and takeoff times allocated by the airport manager. A delay is deemed to exist when the landing or takeoff on AICM runways takes place outside the allocated schedule and according to the following tolerance: Plus or minus 15 minutes, for all flights. The airport manager shall forward to the AICM General Commandership the records the actual landing and takeoff times, as well as the comparison of such actual times with the times allocated, so that the Commendership, through the Subcommittee on Delays, may rate the origin of delays or cancellations and determines the applicable penalties pursuant to the Civil Aviation Act (Art. 97 RLA.) The rating granted by the Subcommittee on Delays shall be the one to be considered for schedule compliance purposes and shall be taken into consideration for future landing and takeoff times allocated. All times/schedules allocated which are not formally canceled one hour in advance shall be automatically deemed as a noncompliance. 3.1.8. EXCHANGE OF TIMES/SCHEDULES BETWEEN CARRIERS. The landing and takeoff times allocated to the carriers may be exchanged or transferred to other carriers, provided both are current in the payment of services. Provided the schedule in question was used for at least one year by the original
carrier, and provided, further, the airport manager is notified of the operation with at least 91 days in advance, specifying the time/schedule in question, and such notice shall have to comply with the requirements established for the allocation of schedules. The airport manager may remove the landing and takeoff schedules allocated to air carriers whenever they are exchanged or allocated in breach of the preceding paragraph or whenever such carriers are late in the payment of the services, by notifying the carrier 90 days in advance. 3.1.9. SATURATION. The airport manager, considering the assumptions established in Article 100 of the Regulations to the Airport Act shall request the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation to declare as saturated hours at the AICM the hours that, during a one-year period, exhibit the following characteristics: a) If more than 52 times during the period the maximum number of 54 operations at the AICM is exceeded; b) In the terminal building, if more than 25 times per year the maximum number of passengers that can be served per hour is exceeded, which in the case of the AICM is 6,950 passengers per hour. (Art. 100 RLA). Whenever the Secretariat notifies the AICM about its decision to declare the AICM in saturation conditions, the Secretariat shall publish its resolution on the Official Journal of the Federation, so that the resolution becomes effective one day after being published. (Art. 101 RLA). As of the date when the declaration of saturation becomes effective, the allocation of landing and takeoff times shall proceed as follows; the airport manager shall allocate landing and takeoff times by applying, what applicable, the conditions outlined above and which are listed below: I. During the first four years, the allocation of takeoff and landing times shall be made according to the following: a) The AICM manager shall remove landing and takeoff schedules from air carriers who, during the previous year, for reasons attributable to them, failed to use 85% or more of their schedules or were late 15% or more of the time; b) New schedules, schedules removed based on the terms established in the preceding paragraph, schedules waived by air carriers and schedules, if any, removed due to overdue service payments by the air carrier shall be auctioned within the following fifteen (15) working days by the airport manager and be allocated based exclusively on
the economic bid, which must be paid at least fifteen (15) days before the schedule becomes effective. Air carriers shall provide a performance bond issued to the AICM to guarantee the seriousness of the request, participation in the tender and, in the event of being awarded with the schedule, payment of the bid. Air carriers not using the allocated times/schedules within the first month of validity and for at least three subsequent months, shall be deprived of the relevant schedule and shall lose, as a contractual penalty, the amount of its bid; c) Participation in auctions shall be limited only to air carriers current in the payment of the services mentioned above; II. If, after three years, the saturation conditions continue, the airport manager shall: d) Remove, on the first month of each year as of the fourth year,10% of the landing and takeoff schedules allocated to each air carrier during the hours when saturation occurs. To make the necessary calculation, decimals equal to or greater than 0.50 shall be rounded up to the next unit, and decimals less than 0.50 shall be rounded down to the next unit; e) The airport manager shall inform the air carriers with schedules during the saturated hours about the number of hours/schedules to be removed, so that each air carrier may inform in writing, within a maximum period of 30 calendar days, the hours/schedules it prefers to be removed from among the schedules it has during the saturated hours; f) If, during the above period, air carriers fail to provide which hours/ schedules they prefer to be removed, the administrator manager shall decide on the matter and notify the air carrier accordingly; g) The landing and takeoff hours/schedules removed hereunder, shall be removed from the air carriers 365 days after notifying them about the number of schedules that shall be removed pursuant to subparagraph b); h) The schedules removed hereunder shall be allocated through the auction procedure provided in this subparagraph, which shall be carried out between 120 days and 180 days after the period described in the preceding subparagraph and shall become effective one day following the expiry of the period specified in subparagraph d). The schedules allocated by auction may only be removed during the following four years for the reasons specified above. (Art. 99 RLA).
3.8 ANNEX C FILLING INSTRUCTIONS FOR APPLICATION FOR LANDING AND TAKEOFF TIMES AT THE AICM MICROSOFT EXCEL FILLING INSTRUCTIONS. 1. - TYPE (REGISTER or DEREGISTER) For amending a Previous Application. Mark with REGISTER the Previous Application. Under deregistration, the corresponding Application Registration (Register). Example: DEREGISTER EWW 103 104 10:30 11:30 REGISTER EWW 103 104 10:35 11:30 2. - AIRLINE, ORIGIN, DESTINATION AND EQUIPMENT (IATA ACRONYM) 3. - TIME IN UTC. FORMAT: HH:MM ( 24 HRS ) Values range from 00:00 to 23:59 (there is no 24:00) 4. - FREQUENCY IN UTC. FORMAT 1 Monday 2 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 4 Thursday 5 Friday 6 Saturday 7 Sunday. Does not operate Example:..3.56. Operates on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday Does not operate ON Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
5. - VALIDITY (START AND END DATE DATE) IN UTC: Validity period on the application: FORMAT: dd/mm/yyy Example: 02/04/2000 2nd April, 2001 3.9 ANNEX C 6. - CARGO TYPE PR PF CR CF NOTE: Regular Passenger Charter Passenger Regular Cargo Charter Cargo IF Origin = HANGAR, Please write: In Origin HAN and Arrival Flight No. = 0 (if it arrives from Hangar) IF Destination = HANGAR, Please write: In Destination HAN and Departure Flight No. = 0 (if it goes to Hangar) 7. - Specify when they come from or arrive to Hangar. Example: COA 430 850 12:00 02:00 means an overnight, has spent 14 hours in platform COA 430 0 12:00 13:00 means it is going to the hangar (1 hour) COA 0 850 01:00 02:00 then it comes from the hangar (1 hour) 8. The form contains, in parentheses, the maximum number of characters allowed in each cell. 9. - Validity and frequency shall be based on time of arrival. Example....6. COA 430 850 23:50 01:50 29 09 2001 29/09/2001 Arrives on 29/09/2000 at 23:50 hrs and departs on 30/10/2000 at 01:50 hrs
3.9.1. Abbreviations H-24 Continuous service day and night PIA AGA RLA FM Aeronautical Information Publication A section of PIA Regulations to the Airport Act Federal Aviation Administration SENEAM Mexican Airspace Navigation Services DGAC General Civil Aviation Authority AICM Mexico City International Airport CCO Subgerencia del Centro de Control Operativo (Deputy Management Office of the Operation Control Center) ETD Estimated Time of Departure UTC Coordinated Universal Time.