Annual Monitoring Report 2020 - Poland
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/779 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Warsaw ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 1
<80’K 14
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 4.25483 PLN
2020: 4.43996 PLN
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2020 4.1%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2020 2.9%
Share en route / terminal costs 2020 85% / 15%
En route charging zone(s)
Poland
Terminal charging zone(s)
Poland EPWA
Poland Others
Main ANSP
• PANSA
Other ANSPs
• Warmia i Mazury sp. z o.o.
• Port Lotniczy Bydgoszcz S.A.
MET Providers
• Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute (IMWM)
• Radom Meteo sp. z o.o.
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Poland recorded 377K actual IFR movements in 2020, -59% compared to 2019 (912K).
▪ Poland IFR movements reduced more than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
▪ Poland recorded 2,146K actual en route service units in 2020, -57% compared to 2019 (4,972K).
▪ The reduction in service units for Poland was in line with the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ PANSA achieved the RP3 EoSM targets in 2020 and exceeded the target maturity for safety culture and safety promotion.
▪ The achieved levels are better than what was planned for 2020 in the draft 2019 performance plan. PANSA continued to implement the improvements initiated in RP2 and documented in the internal SMS development roadmap.
▪ Two other ANSPs included in the Poland’s draft 2019 performance plan (Warmia i Mazury sp. z o.o. and Port Lotniczy Bydgoszcz S.A.) achieved the target on four out of five safety objectives with both needing to improve in the safety risk management objective.
▪ Poland recorded stable performance with respect to safety occurrences with a marginally higher rate of SMIs and a lower rate of RIs in 2020 compared to 2019.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Poland achieved a KEA performance of 1.67% compared to its reference value of 1.67% and therefore contributed positively towards the Union-wide target.
▪ The NSA stated that this performance will not be sustainable as IFR movements continue to grow. Performance in 2020 was affected by airspace users avoiding Ukrainian airspace and the definition of the KEA indicator means that this type of rerouting can significantly affect performance.
▪ The PRB believes that if Poland implements cross-border free route airspace in 2022 and restructures its TMA, the performance can be sustained and this should be the ultimate aim of the NSA.
▪ Only one out of 15 Polish airports that are regulated reported terminal data.
▪ The share of flights operating CCO/CDO at Polish airports improved in 2020 compared to 2019. The additional time airspace users spent taxiing or holding in terminal airspace reduced by 42% compared to 2019.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ PANSA registered near to zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2020, thus meeting the local breakdown value of 0.3.
▪ Delays must be considered in the context of the traffic evolution: IFR movements in 2020 were 59% below the 2019 levels in Poland.
▪ Poland reported no capacity issues and an almost 2% decrease in ATCO FTE numbers in 2020 compared to 2019 values. This represents an almost 8% deficit of ATCO FTEs compared to 2020 planned values and was driven by ATCOs being reallocated to perform other duties, as well as prolonged training due to the low traffic situation.
▪ The NSA reported to have continued all capacity improvement measures.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Poland decreased by 13.83 p.p. compared to 2019.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Warsaw ACC was 21,801, showing a 49.1% decrease compared to 2019.
▪ Warsaw ACC registered 15.36 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2020, being 20.0% below 2019 levels.
▪ Poland registered an average airport arrival ATFM delay of 0.02 minutes per flight in 2020, achieving the local target of 0.45 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2019, average arrival ATFM delays in Poland were 94.86% lower in 2020, while the number of IFR arrivals decreased by 56.16%.
▪ The main reasons for delays were ATC capacity issues, accounting for 40% of delays, and ATC disruptions, responsible for 42%.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The 2020 actual service units (2,146K) were 57% lower than the actual service units in 2019 (4,959K).
▪ In 2020, Poland reduced total costs by 11 M€2017 (-6%) compared to 2019 actual costs. The reduction was mainly driven by a decrease of 16 M€2017 (-13%) in staff costs due to furloughs, temporary suspension of hiring, contribution to the occupational pension scheme and group insurance, reduction of overtimes and bonuses.
▪ PANSA spent 43 M€2017 in 2020 related to costs of investments, 10% less than planned in the 2019 draft performance plan (48 M€2017). The NSA reported that this reduction is attributable to both savings to meet financial capabilities and restrictions impacting the ability to execute some investments.