PRB monitoring
▪ 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%.
AXOT
Additional taxi-out times at Helsinki (EFHK; 2019: 3.04 min/dep.; 2020: 1.96 min/dep.; 2021: 2.15 min/dep.) are very influenced by the winter operations (winter maintenance and de-icing procedures), reaching above 6 min/dep in January and December of 2021. Additional taxi out times between April and October average well below 0.5 min/dep.
According to Finland’s monitoring report: No new initiatives or planned initiatives for additional taxi-out time PI. Additional taxi-out time is following the same pattern as in 2020, after the reduction of traffic due to COVID. Additional taxi-out time is rather low from April to October and higher in the winter months due to winter maintenance and de-icing procedures.
ASMA
The additional times in the terminal airspace have further decreased in 2021 (EFHK; 2019: 1.19 min/arr.; 2020: 1 min/arr.; 2021: 0.6 min/arr). Nevertheless at the end of the year, with the partial traffic recovery, we can observe again additional ASMA times above 1 min/dep, same levels as in 2019.
According to Finland’s monitoring report: No implemented or planned initiatives for additional time in terminal airspace PI.
Share of arrivals applying continuous descent operations (CDOs) (PI#5)
The share of CDO flights at Helsinki (EFHK) has increased to 64.0% which is well above the overall RP3 value in 2021 (30.5%) and in the higher range of all observed values in 2021. However, in the second half of the year, the monthly values decreased from 73.4% in June to 54.2% in December.
| Airport level |
| Airport |
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 |
| Helsinki-Vantaa |
1.96 |
2.15 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
1.0 |
0.6 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
60% |
64% |
NA |
NA |
NA |
Update on Military dimension of the plan
No data available.
Military - related measures implemented or planned to improve capacity
No data available.
Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#6
No data available.
Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#7
No data available.
Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#8
No data available.