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Environment - Greece

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PRB monitoring

▪ Greece achieved a KEA performance of 2.51% compared to its reference value of 1.94% and therefore did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.

▪ Greece stated that the reduction in overflights, which normally have a better KEA, affected their national results. The PRB does not consider this justification sufficient since other Member States still achieved their targets and were affected by reduced overflights like Greece was but still managed to achieve their reference values.

▪ Given the fall in traffic, Greece stated that area reservations by the military increased, which affected KEA. Since Greece did not report the hours of area reservation vs. actual usage, it is not possible to say whether this was the case. However, Greece should improve its flexible use of airspace as it is an anomalous result to not improve KEA performance given the drop in traffic.

▪ The share of flights operating CCO/CDO improved in 2020. The additional time airspace users spent taxiing or holding in terminal airspace reduced by 34% compared to 2019.

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 Athens (LGAV: 2019: 2.61 min/dep.; 2020: 1.54 min/dep.) lowered by 41%, driven mainly by the performance in April, May and June, when they averaged about 1 min/dep. In July and October however these times were considerably worse, around the 2 min/dep.

ASMA

The additional times in the terminal airspace also decreased in 2020 (LGAV; 2019: 1.30 min/arr.; 2020: 1.03 min/arr.) but in a smaller proportion compared to the additional taxi-out times or the additional ASMA times at other European airports. In October 2020 and despite the much lower traffic, these additional times were even higher than any other month in 2019, averaging 1.73 min/arr.

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

Focus CDOs

The share of CDO flights at Athinai/Eleftherios Venizelos (LGAV) is 40.6% which is above the overall RP3 value in 2020 (32.5%).

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
Athens 1.54 NA NA NA NA 1.03 NA NA NA NA 41% NA NA NA NA

Civil-Military dimension

Focus on Civil-Military dimension

Update on Military dimension of the plan

Environment: Airspace design reorganizes the airspace structure in order to decrease aircraft emissions and noise, therefore implementing certain airspace structures (FRA, TSA/TRA, torte case, etc.) airspace connectivity, as well as certain regulations for controlling emissions (having in mind i.e. that the average age of the military fleet is 21 years versus 13 years for the commercial fleet) will affect the impact of military dimension on the environment KPA.

Capacity: Airspace design provides a more integrated management of the airspace, without the limitations of national borders, in order to maximise capacity through initiatives such as Flexible Use of Airspace, harmonisation of airspace categories and free routing, starting with upper airspace above a certain altitude and continuing in stages to optimise capacity.

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

Environment: Implementation of FRA, implementation of TSA/TRA and certain procedures for flexible use of airspace.

Capacity: Classification of airspace (according to the needs), implementation of FRA, implementation of certain TSA/TRA for specific military use. Reorganization of airspace structures for capacity optimization.

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#6

Relevant actions by HANSA to be decided (if necessary) after evaluation of all parameters including the effect of the pandemic specifically for 2020.

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#7

Relevant actions by HANSA to be decided (if necessary) after evaluation of all parameters including the effect of the pandemic specifically for 2020.

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#8

Relevant actions by HANSA to be decided (if necessary) after evaluation of all parameters including the effect of the pandemic specifically for 2020.

 
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