Annual Monitoring Report 2021 - Romania
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/2424 of 5 December 2022
List of ACCs 1
Bucharest ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 1
<80’K 1
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 4.56629 RON
2021: 4.91854 RON
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2021 4.3%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2021 3.0%
Share en route / terminal costs 2021 91% / 9%
En route charging zone(s)
Romania
Terminal charging zone(s)
Romania
Main ANSP
• ROMATSA
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
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Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Romania recorded 454K actual IFR movements in 2021, +42% compared to 2020 (320K).
▪ Actual 2021 IFR movements represent 61% of the actual 2019 level (747K).
▪ Romania recorded 2,870K actual en route service units in 2021, +27% compared to 2020 (2,246K).
▪ Actual 2021 service units represent 56% of the actual 2019 level (5,117K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ ROMATSA demonstrated high safety performance in 2021 and has further exceeded the EoSM targets level in one additional management objective ahead of the plan. ROMATSA, together with the NSA, have implemented various measures and corrective actions to ensure maintaining high safety performance.
▪ Romania recorded stable performance with respect to safety occurrences, with no runway incursions and a marginal decrease in the rate of separation minima infringements relative to 2020. The NSA closely monitors the safety occurrences via continuous oversight function.
▪ ROMATSA should improve its safety management by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Romania achieved a KEA performance of 2.22% compared to its target of 2.10% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target. KEA worsened by 0.05 p.p. compared to 2020.
▪ The NSA states that in spite of the significant traffic reduction, the areas avoided by airspace users (Black Sea, Eastern Ukraine, and Crimea Area), related RAD restrictions and applicable traffic bans (between Ukraine and Russia) remained unchanged in the area in 2021.
▪ Despite the reasons mentioned above, KEP is at the lowest values in five years and SCR is just 0.01 p.p. worse than the lowest value occurred in 2020.
▪ The share of CDO flights has decreased in comparison to 2020, but is still higher than pre-pandemic levels.
▪ Additional time in terminal airspace and additional taxi time have further decreased in 2021 by 23% and 15% respectively.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Romania registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2021, thus meeting the local breakdown value of 0.02.
▪ Delays should be considered in the context of lower traffic: in Romania, IFR movements in 2021 were 39% lower than in 2019.
▪ Romania has received additional traffic due to airspace closures East of the SES airspace potentially expediting the recovery. The 2019 levels are likely to be reached in 2023 in high and base growth scenarios. An increase in the number of ATCOs in OPS is planned in Bucharest ACC by the end of RP3.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Bucharest ACC was 68,607, showing a 0.3% decrease compared to 2020. Sector opening hours are 0.0% below 2019 levels.
▪ Bucharest ACC registered 6.52 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2021, being 39.2% below 2019 levels.
▪ Romania registered zero minutes of average airport arrival ATFM delay per flight in 2021, achieving the local target of 0.5 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2020, the number of IFR arrivals in Romania increased by 36.97%, while the average arrival ATFM delay remained zero minutes in 2021.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2020/2021 actual unit cost of Romania was 65.86 €2017, in line with the determined unit cost (65.45 €2017). The terminal 2020/2021 actual unit cost was 423.19 €2017, +2.1% higher than the determined unit cost (414.64 €2017).
▪ The en route 2021 actual service units (2,870K) were -1.0% lower than determined (2,898K).
▪ In 2021, Romania increased total costs by +0.2 M€2017 (+0.1%) compared to determined. Other operating costs decreased significantly by -5.4 M€2017 (-20%) mainly due to a delay in flight validation services. This is offset by an increase in staff costs of +4.9 M€2017 (+4.0%), which increased due to a higher than planned defined benefits provision for pensions.
▪ ROMATSA spent 19.0 M€2017 in 2021 related to costs of investments, +1.9% more than determined (18.7 M€2017).
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2020/2021 was 67.34€, while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users was 438.35€.