Annual Monitoring Report 2022 - Finland
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/765 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Tampere ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 1
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2022: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2022 0.6%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2022 0.6%
Share en route / terminal costs 2022 71% / 29%
En route charging zone(s)
Finland
Terminal charging zone(s)
Finland
Main ANSP
• Fintraffic ANS
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
• Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Finland recorded 205K actual IFR movements in 2022, +67% compared to 2021 (123K).
▪ Actual 2022 IFR movements were -15% below the plan (242K).
▪ Actual 2022 IFR movements represent 72% of the actual 2019 level (285K).
▪ Finland recorded 598K actual en route service units in 2022, +21% compared to 2021 (495K).
▪ Actual 2022 service units were -33% below the plan (894K).
▪ Actual 2022 service units represent 59% of the actual 2019 level (1,011K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ Fintraffic ANS achieved the RP3 EoSM targets in four management objectives and must improve in only one area: Safety risk management, which is currently under the review of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency.
▪ Finland recorded a stable number of safety occurrences, with a lower rate of runway incursions and a decrease in the rate of separation minima infringements. Both rates were below the Union-wide average.
▪ Fintraffic ANS could improve its safety management by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Finland achieved a KEA performance of 3.28% compared to its target of 0.88% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ The NSA states that the performance target was not met due to the shift of the traffic flows between Russia and Kaliningrad and between Finland and Japan.
▪ Both KEP and SCR deteriorated in comparison with 2021. The value of these two indicators is similar, meaning airspace users plan close to the shortest route available.
▪ The share of CDO flights decreased by 1.09% compared to 2021.
▪ During 2022, additional time in terminal airspace increased from 0.60 to 0.68 min/flight, while additional taxi out time increased from 2.15 to 2.81 min/flight.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Finland registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2022, thus achieving the local target value of 0.05.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 28% below 2019 levels in Finland in 2022.
▪ An 8% increase in the number of ATCOs in OPS is planned by the end of RP3. The actual value remains below the 2022 plan in Helsinki ACC.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Tampere ACC was 9,838 in 2022, showing an 8.5% increase compared to 2021. Sector opening hours are 27.1% below 2019 levels.
▪ Tampere ACC registered 14.66 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2022, being 0.8% below 2019 levels.
▪ Finland registered an average airport arrival ATFM delay of 0.06 minutes per flight in 2022, achieving the local target of 0.28 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2021, average arrival ATFM delays in Finland were 35.08% lower in 2022, while the number of IFR arrivals increased by 83.47%.
▪ The main reason for delays was weather, accounting for 100% of delays.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2022 actual unit cost of Finland was 61.25 €2017, +26% higher than the determined unit cost (48.63 €2017).4 The terminal 2022 actual unit cost was 182.39 €2017, +16% higher than the determined unit cost (157.04 €2017).
▪The en route 2022 actual service units (598K) were -33% lower than the determined (894K).
▪ The en route 2022 actual total costs were 6.9 M€2017 lower (-16%) compared to determined, as all cost categories decreased.
▪ The main reason for the reduction was the lower staff costs (-3.5 M€2017, or -15%), due to savings as a result of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Other operating costs decreased (-2.1 M€2017, or -13%) due to savings in several cost categories (e.g. lower travel costs, less purchase of equipment, etc.). Depreciation and cost of capital decreased due to postponing investments.
▪ Fintraffic ANS spent 5.6 M€2017 in 2022 related to costs of investments, -16% lower than determined (6.7 M€2017) due to postponed investments, mainly caused by cost-cutting measures as a result of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2022 was 68.04€, while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users was 225.77€.