{"id":18788,"date":"2022-06-15T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/?p=18788"},"modified":"2022-06-15T09:15:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:15:21","slug":"big-summer-slots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/big-summer-slots\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Summer Slots (a Storybook)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer is going to be <strong>worst ever in Europe for delays<\/strong> (so we&#8217;re told), which means if you&#8217;re going there you&#8217;re going to get a <strong>nasty CTOT <\/strong>sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>So rather than writing a long and helpful blog post to help you navigate the slot rules, instead we&#8217;ve put together a vacuous and infantile story book.<\/p>\n<p>But, it <strong>might still help a little to figure out how NMOC<\/strong> (the artists formerly known as CFMU) <strong>at Eurocontrol works<\/strong>, how to deal with a bad slot, requesting improvement, how and when to file, and when you should or should not contact NMOC for help.<\/p>\n<p>Once you&#8217;ve enjoyed (or not) storytime, be sure to scroll down for some more &#8220;adult&#8221; links to the in-depth material \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Big-Summer-Slots-a-storybook.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18793 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/slots-book-1024x582.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/slots-book-1024x582.png 1024w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/slots-book-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/slots-book-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/slots-book-1536x873.png 1536w, https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/slots-book.png 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click above for the PDF version (which you can also <a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Big-Summer-Slots-a-storybook.pdf\">download directly<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>If you prefer, try this &#8220;Book&#8221; version &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"fp-iframe\" style=\"border: 1px solid lightgray; width: 100%; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/heyzine.com\/flip-book\/507b89bcd5.html\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, onto the adult version&#8230; Eurocontrol NMOC have published a <strong>really useful guide to slots<\/strong> this month, for the Summer of 2022. Download that <a href=\"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Eurocontrol-Summer-2022-Flow-guide.pdf\">here<\/a> as a PDF (31 pages)<\/p>\n<p>For the full bible, you want the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurocontrol.int\/publication\/ifps-users-manual\">IFPS users manual<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurocontrol.int\/publication\/atfcm-operations-manual\">ATCFM operations manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any other useful links or documents about European slots? Tell us! <a href=\"mailto:blog-team@ops.group\">ops.team@ops.group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer is going to be worst ever in Europe for delays (so we&#8217;re told),&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":18789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1234,209,217,688],"class_list":{"0":"post-18788","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-briefings","8":"tag-ctot","9":"tag-eurocontrol","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-slots"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18788"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18803,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18788\/revisions\/18803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ops.group\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}