Annual Monitoring Report 2020 - Malta
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/2425 of 5 December 2022
List of ACCs 1
Malta ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 1
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2020: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2020 0.8%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2020 0.3%
Share en route / terminal costs 2020 80% / 20%
En route charging zone(s)
Malta
Terminal charging zone(s)
Malta
Main ANSP
• MATS
Other ANSPs
• Malta International Airport Plc.
MET Providers
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Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Malta recorded 56K actual IFR movements in 2020, -57% compared to 2019 (130K).
▪ The reduction in IFR movements for Malta was in line with the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
▪ Malta recorded 396K actual en route service units in 2020, -61% compared to 2019 (1,020K).
▪ Malta service units reduced more than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ MATS achieved the RP3 EoSM targets in 2020 and exceeded the target in the safety policy and objectives and safety promotion objectives.
▪ Malta must do better to ensure it properly, completely, and punctually delivers its monitoring data according to the performance and charging regulation.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Malta achieved a KEA performance of 2.53% compared to its reference value of 1.46% and therefore did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ Malta must do better to ensure it properly, completely, and punctually delivers its monitoring data according to the performance and charging regulation. No qualitative information was provided to justify its performance, which fell short of its reference value.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ MATS registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2020, thus meeting the local breakdownof 0.02.
▪ Malta must do better to ensure it properly, completely, and punctually delivers its monitoring data according to theand charging regulation.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Malta ACC was 9,479, showing a 22.5% decrease compared to 2019.
▪ Malta ACC registered 5.85 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2020, being 44.6% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The 2020 actual service units (396K) were 60% lower than the actual service units in 2019 (996K).
▪ Malta reduced total costs in 2020 by 2.4M€2017 (-11%) compared to 2019 actual costs. The main driver of this reduction is the 1.9M€2017 lower staff costs (-17%), resulting from the suspension of the overtime of all employees.
▪ MATS spent 2.6M€2017 in 2020 related to costs of investments, 51% less than planned in the 2019 draft performance plan (5.3M€2017). The NSA noted that MATS suspended all projects in 2020 as a result of COVID-19 crisis.