Annual Monitoring Report 2020 - Denmark
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/770 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Copenhagen ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 1
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 7.43692 DKK
2020: 7.45255 DKK
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2020 1.4%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2020 1.6%
Share en route / terminal costs 2020 80% / 20%
En route charging zone(s)
Denmark
Terminal charging zone(s)
Denmark
Main ANSP
• NAVIAIR
Other ANSPs
–
MET Providers
• DMI
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Denmark recorded 275K actual IFR movements in 2020, -59% compared to 2019 (669K).
▪ Denmark IFR movements reduced more than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
▪ Denmark recorded 717K actual en route service units in 2020, -60% compared to 2019 (1,781K).
▪ Denmark service units reduced more than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ NAVIAIR did not achieve the RP3 targets for the EoSM in any of the safety management objectives.
▪ Based on the maturity achieved at the end of RP2, the EoSM performance is lower than excepted (NAVIAIR exceeded the targets in all but one management objective in 2019). NAVIAIR needs to improve its maturity by one level in six out of 28 EoSM questions and by two levels in one question to achieve the RP3 targets, which should be feasible.
▪ Denmark recorded stable performance with respect to occurrences. The rate of separation minima infringements and of runway incursion per movements remained below the Union-wide average rate.
▪ NAVIAIR should improve its SMS by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Denmark achieved a KEA performance of 1.12% compared to its reference value of 1.21% and therefore contributed positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ While Denmark stated that the significant fall in traffic boosted its KEA performance and that it expects that performance will worsen as traffic grows, there were no major operational or structural changes made in 2020 to help ensure the performance can be sustained as best as possible.
▪ While the share of flights operating CCO/CDO at Copenhagen airport improved in 2020 compared to 2019, the CCO performance remained stable. Around half of all arrivals at Copenhagen airports completed a CDO procedure, which is one of the best Union-wide performance.
▪ The additional time airspace users spent taxiing or holding in terminal airspace reduced by 37% compared to 2019.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ NAVIAIR registered near zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2020, thus meeting the local breakdown value of 0.14.
▪ Delays must be considered in the context of the traffic evolution: IFR movements in 2020 were 59% below the 2019 levels in Denmark.
▪ Denmark reported no capacity issues and ATCO numbers remained flat at the 2019 value in line with previous plans.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Copenhagen ACC was 44,820, showing a 0.3% increase compared to 2019.
▪ Copenhagen ACC registered 5.31 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2020, being 58.9% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The 2020 actual service units (717K) were 57% lower than the actual service units in 2019 (1,679K).
▪ Denmark increased total costs in 2020 by 1.4M€2017 (+2%) compared to 2019 actual costs. The main driver of the increase is staff costs, with costs being 5.4M€2017 higher (+10%), due to costs associated with voluntary resignations. Moreover, cost of capital increased by 2.5M€2017 (+63%).
▪ Exceptional costs decreased by 7.2M€2017 (-354%), the reason being unclear since the NSA stated that such decrease is supposed to reflect cost reductions that have not yet been decided.
▪ NAVIAIR shows a perfect execution of its investment plans, with 2020 actual cost of investments being equal to the investment plans (21M€2017).