PRB monitoring
▪ The 2020 actual service units (2,756K) were 54% lower than the actual service units in 2019 (6,004K).
▪ Greece reduced total costs in 2020 by 17 M€2017 (-12%) compared to 2019 actual costs. The reduction in total costs is primarily driven by a decrease in staff costs of 21 M€2017 (-19%), resulting from changes in the ATCO recruitment plan and reduced traffic dependent staff costs.
▪ NSA SAR costs are included for the first time and mainly responsible for the increase in other operating costs and cost of capital of 1.9 M€2017 (+7%) and 2.4 M€2017 (+184%) respectively.
▪ HCAA spent 1.7 M€2017 in 2020 related to costs of investments, 38% less than planned in the 2019 draft performance plan (2.8 M€2017). The reduction is due to a lower cost of capital and depreciation resulting from a lower asset base than originally planned.
En route charging zone
Unit cost (KPI#1)
| Actual and determined data |
| Total costs - nominal (M€) |
2020-2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
| Actual costs |
257 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
| Determined costs |
277 |
172 |
189 |
204 |
| Difference costs |
−20 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
| Inflation assumptions |
2020-2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
| Determined inflation rate |
NA |
4.5% |
1.3% |
1.6% |
| Determined inflation index |
NA |
106.5 |
107.9 |
109.7 |
| Actual inflation rate |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
| Actual inflation index |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
| Difference inflation index (p.p.) |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
AUC vs. DUC
The AUC for the combined year 2020-2021 corresponds to 37.28€2017 and was lower by
-8.4% (or -3.43€2017) from DUC (40.71€2017). This results from the combination of slightly higher than planned TSUs (+1.1%) and lower than planned en route costs in real terms (by -7.4%, or -20.3 M€2017).
En route service units
The difference between actual and planned TSUs (+1.1%) falls within the ±2% dead band. Hence the resulting gain is kepty by the ANSPs.
En route costs by entity
Actual real en route costs for 2020-2021 are -7.4% (-20.3 M€2017) lower than planned. This result is driven by the main ANSP (HCAA, now HASP) with the costs lower by -7.4% (-16.1 M€2017), NSA/EUROCONTROL with costs lower by -7.7% (-3.1 M€2017) and the METSP with a costs decrease of -6.2% (-1.1 M€2017).
En route costs for the main ANSP at charging zone level
Overall, the en route costs in real terms for HCAA (now HASP) in 2020-2021 were lower by -7.4% (-16.1 M€2017) comparing with the determined costs from the performance plan. This is mainly the result of:
- lower staff costs (-8.3% or -15.2 M€2017) reflecting the amendments to the recruitment plan implemented during COVID-19 crisis;
- lower other operating costs (-3.1% or -0.9 M€2017) due to costs savings in 2021; and
- lower deduction of the costs of exempted VFR flights (-7.9%)
No difference is observed for the cost of capital and depreciation for HCAA (HASP) in combined year 2020-2021.
Actual unit cost incurred by the users (AUCU) (PI#1)
| AUCU components (€/SU) – 2020-2021 |
| Components of the AUCU in 2020-2021 |
€/SU |
| DUC |
41.19 |
| Inflation adjustment |
0.09 |
| Cost exempt from cost-sharing |
−0.46 |
| Traffic risk sharing adjustment |
0.00 |
| Traffic adj. (costs not TRS) |
−0.09 |
| Finantial incentives |
0.00 |
| Modulation of charges |
0.00 |
| Cross-financing |
0.00 |
| Other revenues |
0.00 |
| Application of lower unit rate |
0.00 |
| Total adjustments |
−0.47 |
| AUCU |
40.72 |
| AUCU vs. DUC |
−1.1% |
| Cost exempt from cost sharing by item - 2020-2021 |
€'000 |
€/SU |
| New and existing investments |
−22.5 |
0.00 |
| Competent authorities and qualified entities costs |
−2,552.6 |
−0.38 |
| Eurocontrol costs |
−553.2 |
−0.08 |
| Pension costs |
0.0 |
0.00 |
| Interest on loans |
0.0 |
0.00 |
| Changes in law |
0.0 |
0.00 |
| Total cost exempt from cost risk sharing |
−3,128.4 |
−0.46 |
The actual en route unit cost incurred by airspace users (AUCU) in respect of activities performed in the combined year 2020-2021 (40.72€) is -1.1% lower than the nominal DUC (41.19€), which includes DUC initially charged: 37.73€; and DUC to be charged: 3.46€. The difference between these two figures (-0.47€/SU) arising from:
- the positive inflation adjustment resulting from higher than planned inflation (+0.09€/SU);
- the deduction of the adjustment for costs exempt from cost-sharing (-0.46€/SU), to be reimbursed to the airspace users in future years; and
- the deduction of traffic adjustments (-0.09€/SU), for the costs not subject to traffic risk sharing to be reimbursed to the airspace users in future years.
The share of the regulatory result in the AUCU (before the deduction of other revenues) is 8.0%.
HCAA (now HASP) net gain on activity in the en route charging zone in the combined year 2020-2021
HCAA’s net gain amounts to +18.9 M€ mainly due to gains of +16.4 M€ from the cost sharing mechanism, and gains of +2.5 M€ from the traffic risk sharing mechanism.
HCAA (now HASP) overall regulatory results (RR) for the en route activity
Ex-post, the overall RR taking into account the net gain from the en route activity mentioned above (+18.9 M€) and the actual RoE (+1.9 M€) amounts to +20.7 M€ (9.3% of the en route revenues).