Annual Monitoring Report 2021 - Finland
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/765 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Tampere ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 1
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2021: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2021 0.7%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2021 0.6%
Share en route / terminal costs 2021 72% / 28%
En route charging zone(s)
Finland
Terminal charging zone(s)
Finland
Main ANSP
• Fintraffic ANS
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
• Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Finland recorded 123K actual IFR movements in 2021, +3.6% compared to 2020 (119K).
▪ Actual 2021 IFR movements were +3.6% above the plan (119K).
▪ Actual 2021 IFR movements represent 43% of the actual 2019 level (285K).
▪ Finland recorded 495K actual en route service units in 2021, +7.1% compared to 2020 (462K).
▪ Actual 2021 service units were +2.9% above the plan (481K).
▪ Actual 2021 service units represent 49% of the actual 2019 level (1,011K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ Fintraffic ANS achieved the RP3 EoSM targets in four management objectives and must improve in only one area: safety risk management, which is currently under the review of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency.
▪ Finland recorded a stable number of safety occurrences, with a rate of runway incursions similar to 2020 and a decrease in the rate of separation minima infringements. Both rates are below the Union-wide average rates.
▪ Fintraffic ANS should improve its safety management by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Finland achieved a KEA performance of 0.77% compared to its target of 0.88% and contributed positively towards achieving the Union-wide target. These are the best levels of performance since 2017.
▪ The NSA states that Finland has cross-border free route airspace with NEFAB + DK-SE FAB and the overflying traffic is as direct as possible, leading to the strong horizontal en route flight efficiency performance.
▪ Both KEP and SCR improved since 2020 and reached the best levels in five years.
▪ The share of CDO flights improved by 4%.
▪ Additional time in terminal airspace reduced by 40%, while additional taxi out time increased by 10%.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Finland registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2021, thus meeting the local breakdown value of 0.03.
▪ En route ATFM delays in Finland were also zero on average during the past years.
▪ Traffic recovery in Finland has been slower than in many other Member States (also due to non-COVID-19 related issues) and 2019 traffic levels are not likely to be reached during RP3. An increase in the number of ATCOs in OPS is planned by the end of RP3 with no capacity related delays envisaged.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Tampere ACC was 9,070, showing a 10.7% decrease compared to 2020. Sector opening hours are 32.0% below 2019 levels.
▪ Tampere ACC registered 9.91 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2021, being 32.5% below 2019 levels.
▪ Finland registered an average airport arrival ATFM delay of 0.1 minutes per flight in 2021, achieving the local target of 0.21 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2020, average arrival ATFM delays in Finland were 50.53% lower in 2021, while the number of IFR arrivals decreased by 0.66%.
▪ The main reason for delays was weather, accounting for 100% of delays.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2020/2021 actual unit cost of Finland was 76.32 €2017, -6.3% lower than the determined unit cost (81.42 €2017). The terminal actual unit cost was 337.89 €2017, -8.0% lower than the determined unit cost (367.09 €2017).
▪ The en route 2021 actual service units (495K) were +2.9% higher than determined (481K).
▪ In 2021, actual total costs were -3.8 M€2017 lower (-9.5%) than determined. The main driver was the reduction of other operating costs (-2.0 M€2017, or -13%) due to lower training costs and lower travel costs. Staff costs (-1.3 M€2017, or -7.0%) were lower than determined due to temporary layoffs and postponement of the recruitment, a decrease in head count, cancellation of bonuses, and lower pension costs.
▪ Fintraffic ANS spent 6.7 M€2017 in 2021 related to costs of investments, -5.8% lower than determined (7.1 M€2017) due to the postponement of investments.
▪ The discrepancies regarding total costs and costs of investments are significant, especially as the performance plan has been submitted at the end of 2021. The PRB invites the NSA to analyse the discrepancies and identify their reasons, including potential inaccurate planning and possible misusing of the regulatory framework to finance the liquidity.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2020/2021 was 71.52€, while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users was 372.16€.