PRB monitoring
▪ 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.
Summary of capacity performance
The Copenhagen FIR experienced a traffic reduction of 59% from 2019 levels, to 376k flights. The traffic level was accommodated with negligible en route ATFM delays to airspace users.
NSA’s assessment of capacity performance
The capacity KPI has been met.
Monitoring process for capacity performance
No data available
Capacity planning
No data available
Application of Corrective Measures for Capacity (if applicable)
No data available
This is the amount of ATCOs in OPS and the expectation of the ATCOs in/out. Notice should be taken that this is in line with the ACE-definition and as such only a partial amount of the ATCO FTE’s
Denmark only has Copenhagen/Kastrup (EKCH) airport subject to RP3 monitoring for which the APDF is successfully established and the monitoring of the capacity indicators can be performed. Nevertheless, the quality of the reporting does not allow for the calculation of the ATC pre-departure delay, with more than 60% of the reported delay not allocated to any cause.
Traffic at this airport in 2020 decreased by 63% with respect to 2019. Copenhagen registered zero arrival ATFM delays in the entire year and had very high slot adherence.
Copenhagen, that in the last years had registered low delays, observed zero ATFM delays in 2020 (EKCH; 2019: 0.07 min/arr.; 2020: 0 min/arr,)
The provisional national target on arrival ATFM delay in 2020 was met.
In accordance with Article 3 (3) (a) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1627: The incentive scheme shall cover only the calendar years 2022 to 2024.
| Airport level |
| Airport name |
Avg arrival
ATFM delay (KPI#2)
|
Slot adherence (PI#1)
|
ATC pre departure
delay (PI#2)
|
All causes pre departure
delay (PI#3)
|
| 2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
| Copenhagen |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
98.7% |
NA% |
NA% |
NA% |
0.02 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
6.8 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
ATFM slot adherence
With the drastic drop in traffic, regulated departures from Copenhagen also virtually disappeared as of April. The annual figure is therefore driven by the performance in the first trimester.
Copenhagen’s ATFM slot compliance was 98.7%. Only 32 flights in total in 2020 departed out of the STW, 31 of them early and 1 late.
Danish NSA reports: Performance improved slightly.
NSA monitors the performance via monthly reports from the ANSP, and yearly evaluation.
ATC pre-departure delay
The quality of the airport data reported by Copenhagen is too low, preventing the calculation of this indicator.
The calculation of the ATC pre-departure delay is based on the data provided by the airport operators through the Airport Operator Data Flow (APDF) which is properly implemented at Copenhagen.
However, there are several quality checks before EUROCONTROL can produce the final value which is established as the average minutes of pre-departure delay (delay in the actual off block time) associated to the IATA delay code 89 (through the APDF, for each delayed flight, the reasons for that delay have to be transmitted and coded according to IATA delay codes.
However, sometimes the airport operator has no information concerning the reasons for the delay in the off block, or they cannot convert the reasons to the IATA delay codes. In those cases, the airport operator might:
- Not report any information about the reasons for the delay for that flight (unreported delay)
- Report a special code to indicate they do not have the information (code ZZZ)
- Report a special code to indicate they do not have the means to collect and/or translate the information (code 999)
To be able to calculate with a minimum of accuracy the PI for a given month, the minutes of delay that are not attributed to any IATA code reason should not exceed 40% of the total minutes of pre-departure delay observed at the airport.
Finally, to be able to produce the annual figure, at least 10 months of valid data is requested by EUROCONTROL.
The share of unidentified delay reported by Copenhagen was above 40% in April, August and October 2020, preventing the annual calculation of this indicator. Copenhagen usually has proper reporting, and the issue those months is likely to be due to the special traffic composition.
All causes pre-departure delay
The total (all causes) delay in the actual off block time at Copenhagen in 2020 was 6.79 min/dep. The higher delays per flight were observed in February and December.
This performance indicator has been introduced in the performance scheme for the first time this year, so no evolution with respect to 2019 can be analysed.