PRB monitoring
▪ Sweden registered near zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2021, thus meeting the local breakdown value of 0.05.
▪ En route ATFM delays in Sweden were also near zero on average during the past years.
▪ Traffic recovery in Sweden has continued to be impacted by the airspace closures East of the SES area. Between February and May 2022, Sweden has been one of the five Member States to be the most affected by this and, as a result, 2019 traffic levels are not likely to be reached during RP3. An increase in the number of ATCOs in OPS is planned at both ACCs during RP3.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Sweden decreased by 34.46 p.p. compared to 2020 and was lower than 2019 values.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Malmo ACC was 44,622, showing a 7.7% decrease compared to 2020. Sector opening hours are 22.4% below 2019 levels. The yearly total of sector opening hours in Stockholm ACC was 24,520, showing an 11.3% decrease compared to 2020. Sector opening hours are 44.6% below 2019 levels.
▪ Malmo ACC registered 6.08 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2021, being 39.6% below 2019 levels. Stockholm ACC registered 7.36 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2021, being 20.6% below 2019 levels.
Summary of capacity performance
Sweden experienced an increase in traffic from 351k flights in 2020 to 380k flights in 2021, with practicaly zero ATFM delay. However, traffic levels were still substantially below the 823k flights in 2019.
NSA’s assessment of capacity performance
Due to low traffic volumes and well functioning systems no delays were registered in 2021
Monitoring process for capacity performance
No data available
Capacity planning
No data available
Application of Corrective Measures for Capacity (if applicable)
No data available
Malmo ACC: Sweden has previously reported 147,5 FTE ATCOs for 2020 in ESMM ACC.
Stockholm ACC: Sweden has previously reported 143 FTE ATCOs for 2020 in ESOS ACC.
The number of ATCOs are calculated as total ATCOs reduced with ATCOs on other duties, outside the opsroom. The number of FTEs reported are december each year (not the average FTE over the year of 2018 which was earlier reported). Overtime and sickness leave is not included. The number of additional ATCOs in OPS, includes 13 ATCOs that are planned to be converted to En Route from the control-tower of Malmö airport (3 ATCOs 2021, 2 2022, 8 2023).
Sweden only has Stockholm (ESSA) airport subject to RP3 monitoring for which the APDF is successfully established and the monitoring of the capacity indicators can be performed.
Traffic at this airport in 2021 was still 61% lower than the 2019 levels, with a low recovery of only 6% of the traffic compared to 2020.
Average arrival ATFM delays in 2021 was 0.00 min/arr, same as in 2020.
ATFM slot adherence has slightly deteriorated (2021: 97.9%; 2020: 98.2%).
Only 77 minutes of arrival ATFM delay were registered in 2021 at Stockholm, in August, resulting in an average of 0 min/arr for the year. According to the Swedish monitoring report this was due to low traffic volumes and well functioning systems.
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 |
| Stockholm/Arlanda |
0 |
0 |
NA |
NA |
98.2% |
97.9% |
NA% |
NA% |
0.06 |
0.13 |
NA |
NA |
8.3 |
11.5 |
NA |
NA |
ATFM slot adherence
With the drastic drop in traffic, regulated departures from Stockholm virtually disappeared until July 2021.
Stockholm’s ATFM slot compliance was 97.9%, slightly worse than the performance in 2020 (98.2%). With regard to the 2.1% of flights that did not adhere, 0.6% was early and 1.6% was late. The Swedish monitoring report adds: The ATC provider LFV reports the actual performance which is monitored by the NSA. There is no present risk at the awareness of the NSA that there will be a violation to EU 255/2010.
ATC pre-departure delay
The calculation of the ATC pre-departure delay is based on the data provided by the airport operators through the Airport Operator Data Flow (APDF) which is properly implemented at Stockholm. The quality of the airport data reported by ESSA has improved after the COVID crisis and it is possible again to calculate this indicator.
Unlike at most airports, at Stockholm the annual value has increased with respect to 2019 (ESSA: 2019: 0.09 min/dep; 2021: 0.13 min/dep). At monthly level, in general figures have been significantly higher than in 2019, despite the lower traffic.
All causes pre-departure delay
The total (all causes) delay in the actual off block time at Sweden increased in 2021 (ESSA: 2020: 8.34 min/dep.; 2021: 11.48 min/dep.), with the highest delays observed in January and December.