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Environment - Romania

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PRB monitoring

▪ Romania achieved a KEA performance of 2.17% compared to its reference value of 1.55% and therefore did not contribute positively to the Union-wide target.

▪ Given that Romania’s KEA performance was the same as the shortest constrained routes and offers free route airspace, performance can only improve if flights stop re-routing to avoid Ukrainian airspace. The design of the KEA indicator means such deviations significantly impact performance.

▪ Nonetheless, ATS routes that still exist within Romania should be removed and the PRB notes that there is an ongoing initiative to begin this work.

▪ Only one out of two Romanian airports that are regulated reported terminal data fully since 2017.

▪ The share of flights operating CCO/CDO at Romanian airports improved in 2020 compared to 2019. The additional time airspace users spent taxiing or holding in terminal airspace reduced by 21% 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 Bucharest/Otopeni (LROP; 2019: 2.67 min/dep.; 2020: 1.95 min/dep.) decreased considerably as of the month of April. Nevertheless this decrease (-27%) due to the reduction in traffic was lower than at other European airports.

According to the Romanian monitoring report, following measures are planned or already implemented, although no dates are provided:
a) Implemented:
- clearance delivery position;
- ASMGCS - advance surface management ground control system;

- Common procedure between Bucharest Airports National Company and TWR Otopeni for repairing works periods on the manoeuvring area, i.e. pre-established alternative standard taxi routes;
- Common procedure regarding ATFM (according to EU Reg 255/2010) regarding the regulation of traffic in situations that may influence the airport’s capacity.
b) Planned:
- AMAN - Arrival Manager.

ASMA

Contrary to the additional taxi-out times, and to the trend in the evolution of the additional ASMA times at most airports in Europe, these times at Bucharest/Otopeni did not really decreased much in 2020 (LROP; 2019: 0.75 min/arr.; 2020: 0.74 min/arr.).

According to the Romanian monitoring report, following measures are planned or already implemented, although no dates are provided:
a) Implemented:
- SID / STAR RNAV 1;
- as current practice, vectorizations for shortening the trajectories when the traffic is of low complexity (DIRECT TO);
- Bucharest TMA resectorisation - implementation of new sector: DIRECTOR.

b) Planned:
- implementation of AMAN - Arrival Manager;
- implementation of RNP (required navigation performance) approach procedures.

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

Focus CDOs

Bucharest/Otopeni (LROP), being the major airport in the Romania, has the highest share of CDO flights: 48.3% which is above the overall RP3 value in 2020 (32.5%). Bucharest/Băneasa (LRBS) has a share of CDO flights slightly lower than the overall RP3 value.

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
Bucharest HENRI COANDA 1.95 NA NA NA NA 0.74 NA NA NA NA 48% NA NA NA NA
Bucharest AUREL VLAICU NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA 31% NA NA NA NA

Civil-Military dimension

Focus on Civil-Military dimension

Update on Military dimension of the plan

The FUA Concept is fully implemented in Romania at all specific levels, as follows: at Level 1 through National Air Space Management Council, at Level 2 through AMC, as civil-military body and at Level 3 through civil-military coordination offices collocated. At FAB level, an Air Space Policy Body is defined for strategic coordination between Romania and Bulgaria. Furthermore, Romanian operational procedures allow the crossing of most military training zones by civil aircraft with a prior coordination.

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

No data available.

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#6

NSA: PI monitored for statistical purposes, no target assigned in the Performance Plan. The FUA Concept is fully implemented in Romania at all specific levels, as follows: at Level 1 through National Air Space Management Council, at Level 2 through AMC, as civil-military body and at Level 3 through civil-military coordination offices collocated. At FAB level, an Air Space Policy Body is defined for strategic coordination between Romania and Bulgaria. Furthermore, Romanian operational procedures allow the crossing of most military training zones by civil aircraft with a prior coordination.

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#7

No data available.

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#8

No data available.

 
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