Flight Operations to Germany – European Soccer Championships

Flight Operations to Germany – European Soccer Championships: Germany will host this year's European soccer championships from June 14 to July 14. 24 teams are set to compete with matches taking place across ten cities: Berlin, Leipzig, Hamburg, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich and Gelsenkirchen. The opening game takes place on June 14 at the Munich Football Arena, kicking off the group stages. Quarter finals will take place on July 5 and 6 in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Berlin. The semifinals will take place on July 9 and 10 in Munich and Dortmund, and the final will take place on July 14 at the Olympia Stadium Berlin. Full information on the competition and the match venues and schedule is available on the official EUFA website here. Here is what operators need to know about organizing trips to Germany during the tournament.

Flight Operations to Germany - Operational Coordination

Slots that have already been allocated and slot requests that don't relate to the event are not affected and can adhere to normal standard procedures. Regardless of the category (scheduled, nonscheduled, Business or General Aviation), all flights departing from or arriving at any of the coordinated airports (BER, DUS, CGN, FRA, STR, HAM, MUC) during the event, require an airport slot. These will only be allocated by Fluko Flughafen Deutschland GmbH. The following flight categories are exempt:

• Medical, evacuation and humanitarian flights
• State and military flights
• Search and rescue operations
• Emergency operations

Requesting Slots

• Slot requests should be made in SSIM format (SMA/SCR/GCR) to fraztxh@fluko.org
• AIS will not be available for GA/BA slot requests during this period
• PPR procedures at affected airports are expected
• Airports can be affected from two days before the match until the day after the match
• SCR and SMA requests must be submitted with turnaround information, either with 2 single leg lines in one SCR or in turnaround format
• GCR messages must include corresponding arrival and departure slot requests to keep track of planned aircraft turnaround and parking availability
• Slots for general and business aviation flights must be requested through a ground-handling agent
• Due to the limited amount of parking stand availability, ground time should be kept to a minimum

Operators must use the specific following service type codes when making requests for the tournament:

• Use of service type code “L” for any flight with passengers
• Use of service type code “P” for any positioning flight
• Use of any combination L-L, L-P, P-L for the turnaround format
• Service type code “L” must be used for flights operated specifically for the EURO 2024 tournament Failure to do so may result in no handling of the flight

Note:

• All ad hoc flights that intend to operate at an airport on a date concerned by a match (two days before the match until the day after the match) will be processed following the rules below
• Ad hoc slot requests will be held on a waiting list and processed no more than two days prior to the match for the knock-out rounds
• Slots will not be allocated for speculative requests and requests should only be made once the teams are known

Slot Allocation Priorities

All slot requests will be processed in accordance with the WSG and EU Slot Regulations The following special priority order will be applied to the relevant period for the coordinated airports:

• Scheduled and non-scheduled flight services according to Regulation (EEC) No. 95/93 2)

• Flights carrying football teams

• Flights carrying fans

• Other ad hoc flights

Airport Slot Compliance Monitoring

All ATC Flight plans will be automatically monitored for compliance with Airport Slots within a timeframe of 4 hours before filed EOBT. Flights which either do not have any Airport Slot or which do not comply with an allocated slot will be reported to:

• Flight plan originator

• Fluko Flughafen Deutschland GmbH

• CFMU

• Destination Airport

Flights not holding an Airport Slot for their destination or not complying with an allocated Airport Slot risk not being accepted and/or being subject to a fine of up to 50,000 EURO. For support with your operations to Germany, contact UAS