Environment - Greece

PRB monitoring

▪ Greece achieved a KEA performance of 2.54% compared to its target of 2.00% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target. KEA has worsened since 2020.

▪ The NSA states that the target was missed mainly due to military activity causing traffic to diverge from optimal routes.

▪ KEP increased by 0.10 p.p. and SCR increased by 0.14 p.p.. Both indicators are at the worse levels in five years.

▪ The share of CDO flights has remained stable since 2018.

▪ Both additional taxi out time and additional time in terminal airspace increased compared to 2020, but still remain below 2019 values.

En route performance

Horizontal flight efficiency of the actual trajectory (KEA) (KPI#1), of the last filed flight plan (KEP) (PI#1) & shortest constrained route (SCR) (PI#2)

Terminal performance

Additional taxi-out time (AXOT) (PI#3) & Arrival Sequencing and Metering Area (ASMA) time (PI#4)

AXOT

Additional taxi-out times at Athens (LGAV: 2019: 2.61 min/dep.; 2020: 1.54 min/dep.; 2021: 2.12 min/dep.) increased in line with the traffic recovery and were close to 2019 values in the second part of the year.

ASMA

The additional times in the terminal airspace (LGAV; 2019: 1.30 min/arr.; 2020: 1.03 min/arr.; 2021: 1.15 min/arr.) slightly increased especially at the end of the year when they surpassed the values of 2019.

Share of arrivals applying continuous descent operations (CDOs) (PI#5)

The share of CDO flights at Athinai/Eleftherios Venizelos (LGAV) has decreased from 40.6% in 2020 to 38.0% in 2021 which is still above the overall RP3 value in 2021 (30.5%).
The monthly values decreased almost continuously as from May (May: 42.6%; December: 34.8%).

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
Athens 1.54 2.12 NA NA NA 1.03 1.15 NA NA NA 41% 38% NA NA NA

Civil-Military dimension

Update on Military dimension of the plan

Airspace design reorganizes the airspace structure in order to decrease aircraft emissions and noise, therefore implementing certain airspace structures (FRA, TSA/TRA, torte case, etc) airspace connectivity, as well as certain regulations for controlling over the emissions (having in mind i.e. that the average age of the military fleet is 21 years versus13 years for the commercial fleet) we try to affect and minimise the impact of military dimension on the environment KPA.

Airspace design provides a more integrated management of the airspace, without the limitations of national borders, in order to maximise capacity through initiatives such as Flexible Use of Airspace, harmonisation of airspace categories and free routing, starting with upper airspace above a certain altitude and continuing in stages to optimise capacity

Military - related measures implemented or planned to improve capacity

Classification of airspace , implementation of FRA, implementation of certain TSA/TRA for specific military use. Reorganization of airspace structures for capacity optimization.

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