EU Commission assessing amendment to aviation slot rules

BRUSSELS, March 10 (Reuters) - The European Commission is
assessing all options including amending aviation slot rules in
response to coronavirus outbreak, the EU Commission said on
Tuesday.

"We are also looking into aviation because aviation is one
of the sectors that are hardest hit obviously. We are looking
into that ... including regards the rules governing the use of
slots," Janez Lenarcic, the commissioner in charge of crisis
management, told European lawmakers on Tuesday.

A final decision has yet to be taken, as the 27
commissioners were still meeting, an EU official said.
(Reporting by Marine Strauss @StraussMarine; editing by Philip
Blenkinsop)