Environment - Switzerland
PRB monitoring
▪ FABEC stated that half of the Union-wide RAD simplifications applied in 2020 were within FABEC airspace and that eNM measures were not needed. This helped improve the shortest constrained routes within FABEC, but was not sufficient in helping to reach the FAB-level KEA reference value (2.90%) in 2020.
▪ FABEC also mentioned that KEA is proportional to delays and stated that this had an impact on the environment performance. The PRB does not agree with this as FABEC did not experience significant delays in 2020.
▪ Switzerland improved KEA relative to 2019 in 2020 achieving 4.21%.
▪ The share of flights operating CCO/CDO at Swiss airports improved in 2020 compared to 2019, although the CDO performance still remains quite low at 20%. The additional time airspace users spent taxiing or holding in terminal airspace reduced by 41% compared to 2019.
AXOT
The lower traffic as of the month of April had a clear impact on the additional taxi-out times at Swiss airports.
Geneva (LSGG; 2019: 2.94 min/dep.; 2020: 2.06 min/dep.) averaged zero or nearly zero additional taxi-out times in April, May and June, and remain around 1 min/dep. the rest of the year.
Zurich (LSZH; 2019: 3.65 min/dep.; 2020: 2.23 min/dep.) averaged 1 min/dep. from April until November, resulting in an annual reduction of 39% with respect to the previous year.
According to FABEC’s monitoring report, 18’200 tons of CO2 associated with the additional taxi-out times could be saved at Zurich in 2020.
ASMA
Additional times in the terminal area showed an even bigger interdependence with the level of traffic, starting the year around 2.5 min/arr. for both airports, then plummeting to zero between the months of April and July, and then remained well below 1 min/arr. for the rest of the year.
At annual level Zurich (LSZH; 2019: 2.91 min/arr.; 2020: 1.28 min/arr.) shows an impressive 56% reduction, and Geneva (LSGG; 2019: 1.78 min/arr.; 2020: 1.27 min/arr.) a 29% decrease in the additional ASMA times.
According to FABEC’s monitoring report, 47’900 tons of CO2 associated with the additional ASMA times could be saved at Zurich in 2020.
Share of arrivals applying continuous descent operations (CDOs) (PI#5)
Geneva and Zurich both have around 20% of CDO flights which is below the overall RP3 value in 2020 (32.5%).
According to FABEC’s monitoring report: Total level-off flight time in descent flight phase has reduced from 454k minutes in 2019 to 116k minutes in 2020 which represents 52.100 tons of CO2 saved.
| Airport level |
| Airport Name |
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 |
| Geneva |
2.06 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
1.27 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
| Zurich |
2.23 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
1.28 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Update on Military dimension of the plan
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Military - related measures implemented or planned to improve environment and capacity
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Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#6
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Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#7
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Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#8
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