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Capacity - SES RP3

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PRB monitoring

▪ From January to February 2020, traffic levels remained at forecasted levels – and capacity was insufficient. Like in 2018 and 2019, there were high delays during these “normal” months due to a lack of capacity, which indicates that the problems encountered in 2019 continued to affect performance in early 2020.

▪ After the sharp drop in traffic in March 2020, there were only minimal delays, which meant that most Member States/ANSPs achieved the 2020 delay breakdown values.

▪ The reduction of traffic resulted in excess capacity in 2020, indicating that ANSPs had only limited means to adapt their capacity to lower demand.

▪ Three Member States still failed to achieve their expected contribution to the Union-wide target: France, Spain, and Portugal.

▪ With reduced traffic, weather related delays disappeared suggesting that weather does not directly cause delays on its own. It is the combination of lack of capacity to deal with difficult weather situations and higher traffic demand that causes delays.

En route performance

En route ATFM delay (KPI#1)

Summary of performance at local level

En route delay (min/flight)
State Target Actual
Austria 0.370 0.00  ✓
Belgium 0.200 0.06  ✓
Bulgaria 0.170 0.00  ✓
Croatia 0.430 0.00  ✓
Cyprus 1.000 0.20  ✓
Czech Republic 0.200 0.00  ✓
Denmark 0.070 0.00  ✓
Estonia 0.050 0.00  ✓
Finland 0.090 0.00  ✓
France 3.120 0.61  ✓
Germany 3.450 0.18  ✓
Greece 0.340 0.02  ✓
Hungary 0.900 0.00  ✓
Ireland 0.070 0.00  ✓
Italy 0.250 0.01  ✓
Latvia 0.060 0.00  ✓
Lithuania 0.050 0.00  ✓
Malta 0.020 0.00  ✓
Netherlands 0.140 0.01  ✓
Norway 0.080 0.01  ✓
Poland 0.300 0.00  ✓
Portugal 0.230 0.25  ✘
Romania 0.140 0.00  ✓
Slovakia 0.600 0.00  ✓
Slovenia 0.230 0.00  ✓
Spain 0.470 0.40  ✓
Sweden 0.115 0.01  ✓
Switzerland 0.470 0.04  ✓

Other indicators

Terminal performance

Arrival ATFM delay (KPI#2)

Summary of performance at local level

Arrival delay (min/flight)
State Target Actual
Austria 1.25 0.36  ✓
Belgium 1.82 0.38  ✓
Czech Republic 0.37 0.09  ✓
Denmark 0.10 0.00  ✓
Estonia 0.00 0.00  ✓
Finland 0.39 0.20  ✓
France 0.40 0.30  ✓
Germany 0.66 0.10  ✓
Greece 1.20 0.04  ✓
Hungary 0.05 0.08  ✘
Ireland 0.25 0.11  ✓
Italy 0.41 0.04  ✓
Latvia 0.02 0.00  ✓
Luxembourg 0.12 0.06  ✓
Malta 0.00 0.00  ✓
Netherlands 2.00 1.26  ✓
Norway 0.50 0.03  ✓
Poland 0.45 0.02  ✓
Portugal 3.12 0.97  ✓
Romania 0.50 0.00  ✓
Spain 0.91 0.30  ✓
Sweden 0.35 0.00  ✓
Switzerland 1.94 0.55  ✓

Other performance indicators

 
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