Cost-efficiency - SES RP3
PRB monitoring
▪ The data submitted by Member States for 2020 shows that they reduced their costs by only 4% compared to 2019 actual costs (with 58% traffic decrease in service units).
▪ Compared to the draft 2019 performance plans submitted before COVID-19, Member States reduced their 2020 costs by 13%.
▪ ANSPs were aware of the sharp drop in traffic as early as March 2020, meaning that they had enough time to adapt and lower their costs for most of the year.
▪ With the sharp drop in revenues and Eurocontrol granting airspace users a delay to pay the air traffic management (ATM) charges for some months of 2020, ANSPs encountered a steep decline in revenues. The monitoring data shows that ANSPs managed the gap in revenues in different ways using either their own resources, loans or injection of equity by owners.
▪ A substantial gap in revenue remains, which airspace users will have to cover as of 2023 for many years. Given the dire financial situation of most of the airspace users, ANSPs should contribute to the recovery of European aviation by adapting their costs in their revised performance plans. The adjustment to the unit charges will come into effect as early as 2023 provided the Commission approves the revised performance plans.
En route charging zone
Unit cost (KPI#1)
| Actual and determined data | ||||
| Total costs - nominal (M€) | 2020-2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual costs | 12,238 | NA | NA | NA |
| Determined costs | 12,476 | 6,632 | 6,861 | 6,988 |
| Difference costs | -238 | NA | NA | NA |
Summary of performance at local level
Actual unit cost incurred by the users (AUCU) (PI#1)
| AUCU components (€/SU) – 2020-2021 | |
| Components of the AUCU in 2020-2021 | €/SU |
|---|---|
| DUC | 104.65 |
| Inflation adjustment | 0.44 |
| Cost exempt from cost-sharing | -0.61 |
| Traffic risk sharing adjustment | -0.08 |
| Traffic adj. (costs not TRS) | -0.17 |
| Finantial incentives | 0.00 |
| Modulation of charges | 0.00 |
| Cross-financing | 0.00 |
| Other revenues | -1.40 |
| Application of lower unit rate | -0.72 |
| Total adjustments | -2.53 |
| AUCU | 102.12 |
| AUCU vs. DUC | -2.0% |
| Cost exempt from cost sharing by item - 2020-2021 | €'000 | €/SU |
|---|---|---|
| New and existing investments | -25,961 | -0.22 |
| Competent authorities and qualified entities costs | -9,211 | -0.08 |
| Eurocontrol costs | -27,588 | -0.23 |
| Pension costs | -10,749 | -0.09 |
| Interest on loans | 476 | 0.00 |
| Changes in law | 0 | 0.00 |
| Total cost exempt from cost risk sharing | -73,032 | -0.61 |