PRB monitoring
▪ 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.
Summary of capacity performance
Finland experienced an increase in traffic from 119k flights in 2020 to 123k flights in 2021, with zero ATFM delay. However, traffic levels were still substantially below the 285k flights in 2019.
NSA’s assessment of capacity performance
The traffic dropped significantly due to COVID-19 pandemic. The en-route ATFM delay has been 0 for many years. During RP3 planning, airspace user demand was to keep the delays as low as possible, and ANSP has achieved the target of this KPI.
Monitoring process for capacity performance
Review of the actual values from the NM dashboard.
Capacity planning
En-route ATFM delay will remain low as the capacity is delivered due to user demand.
Application of Corrective Measures for Capacity (if applicable)
No data available
Finland identifies only Helsinki airport as subject to RP3 monitoring.
The Airport Operator Data Flow is fully established and the monitoring of all capacity indicators can be performed. Nevertheless, the quality of the reporting does not allow for the calculation of the ATC pre-departure delay, with more than 60% of the reported delay not allocated to any cause.
Traffic at this airport in 2020 had decreased by 63% with respect to 2019, and it did not recover in 2021, showing similar figures than in 2020.
Average arrival ATFM delays in 2021 were 0.10 min/arr, compared to 0.20 min/arr in 2020.
ATFM slot adherence has slightly deteriorated (2021: 93.1%; 2020: 93.6%).
Arrival ATFM delays at Helsinki in 2021 averaged 0,10 min/arr. (-0,11 below the target), and there were all attributed to weather reasons(198 minutes in October and 3341 minutes in December).
Finland reports that Helsinki airport was closed on December 10 for about 3 hours due to extremely severe runway conditions due to icing and freezing drizzle.
The provisional national target on arrival ATFM delay in 2021 was met.
In accordance with Article 3 (3) (a) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1627: The incentive scheme shall cover only the calendar years 2022 to 2024.
| Airport level |
| Airport name |
Avg arrival
ATFM delay (KPI#2)
|
Slot adherence (PI#1)
|
ATC pre departure
delay (PI#2)
|
All causes pre departure
delay (PI#3)
|
| 2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
| Helsinki-Vantaa |
0.2 |
0.1 |
NA |
NA |
93.6% |
93.1% |
NA% |
NA% |
0.08 |
0.08 |
NA |
NA |
7.8 |
11.1 |
NA |
NA |
ATFM slot adherence
With the drastic drop in traffic, regulated departures from Helsinki virtually disappeared until July 2021.
Helsinki’s ATFM slot compliance was 93.1 %, similar to the performance in 2020 (93.6%). With regard to the 6.9% of flights that did not adhere, 1% was early and 5.9% was late.
ATC pre-departure delay
The share of unidentified delay reported by Helsinki was above 40% for more than 2 months in the year, preventing the calculation of this indicator in 2021. This was due to the special traffic composition before the recovery. Helsinki had proper reporting before the pandemic and the reporting has improved since July 2021.
All causes pre-departure delay
The total (all causes) delay in the actual off block time at Helsinki increased in 2021 (EFHK: 2020: 7.76 min/dep.; 2021: 11.07 min/dep.). The highest delays per flight were observed in December, averaging more than 22 min/dep.