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Environment - Finland

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PRB monitoring

▪ Finland achieved a KEA performance of 0.88% compared to its reference value of 0.97% and therefore contributed- positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.

▪ Finland offers airspace users cross-border free route airspace with NEFAB and DK-SE FABs and stated that overflying traffic was as direct as possible.

▪ The share of flights operating CCO/CDO at Vantaa airport remained similar in 2020 compared to 2019. However, the performance is still class leading among Union-wide regulated airports with 60% of all arrivals completing a CDO landing.

▪ The additional time airspace users spent taxiing or holding in terminal airspace reduced by 30% although most of this was due to improvements to airfield queuing. Since time spent holding in terminal airspace is approximately three times more fuel inefficient than taxiing, Vantaa airport should seek to improve this further going forward.

En route performance

Horizontal flight efficiency of the actual trajectory (KEA) (KPI#1), of the last filed flight plan (KEP) (PI#1) & shortest constrained route (SCR) (PI#2)

Terminal performance

Additional taxi-out time (AXOT) (PI#3) & Arrival Sequencing and Metering Area (ASMA) time (PI#4)

Focus on ASMA & AXOT

AXOT

Additional taxi-out times at Helsinki (EFHK; 2019: 3.04 min/dep.; 2020: 1.96 min/dep.) are very influenced by the winter operations (winter maintenance and de-icing procedures), but the impact of these winter operations was much lower than in 2019. Interestingly, although the biggest drop in traffic was observed during April to June, the additional taxi out times were at the lowest from August to October.

According to the Finland’s monitoring report: During 2020 with reduced traffic, the closest runway to the terminal building was closed in order to reduce noise emissions, and this was affecting the taxi-out times.

ASMA

The additional times in the terminal airspace also decreased in 2020 (EFHK; 2019: 1.19 min/arr.; 2020: 1 min/arr.) but in a smaller proportion compared to the additional taxi-out times or the additional ASMA times at other European airports. The biggest reduction was observed from June to August, when these times were practically zero.

Share of arrivals applying continuous descent operations (CDOs) (PI#5)

Focus CDOs

The share of CDO flights at Helsinki (EFHK) is 60.2% which is well above the overall RP3 value in 2020 (32.5%) and in the higher range of all observed values in 2020.

Airport level
Airport
Additional taxi-out time (PI#3)
Additional ASMA time (PI#4)
Share of arrivals applying CDO (PI#5)
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Helsinki-Vantaa 1.96 NA NA NA NA 1 NA NA NA NA 60% NA NA NA NA

Civil-Military dimension

Focus on Civil-Military dimension

Update on Military dimension of the plan

No data available.

Military - related measures implemented or planned to improve environment and capacity

No data available.

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#6

No data available.

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#7

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Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#8

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