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Capacity - France

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PRB monitoring

▪ France registered 1.22 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2022 which has been adjusted to 1.49 during the post-ops adjustment process, thus not achieving the local target value of 0.25.

▪ The average number of IFR movements was 12% below 2019 levels in France in 2022.

▪ The number of ATCOs in OPS is expected to increase in Bordeaux, Marseille, Paris, and Reims ACCs, with no significant increase in Brest ACC. In 2022, the actual values remained below the planned ones in Bordeaux ACC, while they were above the plans in Brest, Marseille, and Reims ACCs. There has been a significant decrease in the number of ATCOs in OPS in Paris ACC, with the actual value being below the 2022 plan.

▪ Capacity performance in France was heavily affected by the system transition in Reims ACC.

▪ Delays were highest between April and October, mostly due to adverse weather conditions, other reasons (system implementation) and ATC Staffing issues.

▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in France increased by 10.95 p.p. compared to 2021 and was higher than 2019 values.

▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Bordeaux ACC was 76,947 in 2022, showing a 4.7% decrease compared to 2021. Sector opening hours are 4.7% above 2019 levels. The yearly total of sector opening hours in Reims ACC was 66,715 in 2022, showing a 46.8% increase compared to 2021. Sector opening hours are 3.6% below 2019 levels. The yearly total of sector opening hours in Paris ACC was 82,674 in 2022, showing an 11.8% increase compared to 2021. Sector opening hours are 19.7% below 2019 levels. The yearly total of sector opening hours in Marseille ACC was 104,717 in 2022, showing a 14.3% increase compared to 2021. Sector opening hours are 4.0% above 2019 levels. The yearly total of sector opening hours in Brest ACC was 63,386 in 2022, showing a 28.8% increase compared to 2021. Sector opening hours are 22.5% below 2019 levels.

▪ Bordeaux ACC registered 10.84 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2022, being 18.9% below 2019 levels. Reims ACC registered 13.57 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2022, being 8.7% below 2019 levels. Paris ACC registered 12.56 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2022, being 5.6% above 2019 levels. Marseille ACC registered 9.79 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2022, being 14.9% below 2019 levels. Brest ACC registered 14.82 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2022, being 9.7% above 2019 levels.

En route performance

En route ATFM delay (KPI#1)

Focus on en route ATFM delay

Summary of capacity performance

France did not achieve the required en route capacity performance in 2022. There were 2 971k flights handled in the airspace of France in 2022, a significant increase on the 1 813k flights handled in 2021, but less than the 3 372k flights handled in 2019.

There were 4.3 million minutes of en route ATFM delay in France- during 2022, including 765k minutes that were attributed to DSNA (from other ANSPs) during the Network Manager’s post operations attribution process, due to the eNM/S22 measures.

For comparison, in 2019, DSNA handled 3 372k flights with 4.5 million minutes of en route ATFM delay. Performance in 2022 was significantly affected by the implementation of 2 major ATM system upgrades in Reims ACC and Marseille ACC, which account for approximately one third of ATFM delays.

NSA’s assessment of capacity performance

In 2022, traffic recovery has reached 89,3% of 2019 traffic for the full year and 92% of 2019 traffic during the Summer period with peaks at or above 2019 traffic levels for some sectors.

The capacity target for en route has not been met, 1,49 min/flight vs 0,25 min/flight, mainly due to the impact of new ATM system (4-FLIGHT) implementation in two ACCs (Reims and Marseille) together with related transition plans but also to due impact of industrial action in September. Some ACCs are still experiencing some staff shortages (Paris, Reims, Marseille).

Corrective actions have been identified and discussed with DSNA and will be implemented in order to mitigate the main delay causes (implementation of NOP corrective measures, addressing ATCO shortages, defining and implementing densified rostering schemes and additional flexibility, reduction of ATCO training time, negotiation of a new social agreement, implementing lessons learnt from 4-FLIGHT implementations in Reims and Bordeaux etc.)

Monitoring process for capacity performance

The French NSA monitoring process is twofold: on the top of the FABEC general monitoring process described in the French performance plan and in the previous 2020 and 2021 RP3 FABEC performance monitoring reports (cf. these documents), a national process has been established based on the following:

- The French NSA is regularly provided with various reports, analysis and data such as FABEC monthly capacity reports (including DSNA data), weekly/monthly/yearly capacity DSNA-OPS directorate reports, PRU monthly dashboards which enable to closely monitor the performance evolution and cross-check data;

- The French NSA is invited to and participates in the capacity planning meetings organized during winter by the NM with DSNA to prepare NOP updates (including discussion on remedial measures, traffic and delays forecast for DSNA ACC, Summer DSNA sector opening schemes etc.);

- The French NSA is invited to and participates in the two yearly Strategic airspace user meetings held by DSNA (beginning of Summer & Winter) where strategic evolutions, OPS projects, ongoing performance, investment plan and HR updates are presented by DSNA to the airspace users which can react and express their views and concerns if any;

- The French NSA has included in its yearly surveillance programme an OPS performance review : regarding capacity, on top of previous meeting participation and data & reports analysis, a dedicated meeting is organized in April/May with DSNA/OPS directorate in order to analyse the previous year performance, define and validate ongoing or new remedial and corrective measures to be taken by DSNA to address issues and underperformance, have a view on ongoing year capacity provision, prepare the yearly FR performance monitoring report to be submitted 1st June ; a follow-up meeting is organized by the French NSA in October/November to follow-up remedial measure implementation; analyse Summer performance, and discuss future performance.

Capacity planning

Since April 2020, a weekly Rolling NOP, published every Friday has been introduced through which NM coordinates with all partners to ensure capacity is available at ACCs and in the airspace they manage, and on the ground at airports, to meet the expected traffic demand from the airlines on each day of the next six weeks enabling to coordinate all operational stakeholders throughout the pandemic to ensure that network actors can plan their recovery effectively based on predicted traffic levels.

A first version of the new 2023-2027 NOP has been released in May 2023. It includes the capacity planning for DSNA ACCs and is still to be updated and finalized in June 2023 with the latest available capacity information and remedial measures for all DSNA ACCs concerned by capacity issues.

DSNA is of course part of this process and contributes to the provision for a consolidated European network view of the evolution of the air traffic, enabling the planning of the service delivered in the recovery phase to match the expected air traffic demand in a safe, efficient and coordinated manner.

It should be also noted that the French NSA, upon its request, has been associated to this process and attends since RP2 the NM - DSNA capacity planning meetings in order to be informed of the outcome of previous NOP remedial measures, French ACCS capacity issued and NM delays forecast for French ACCs, any new measures proposed either by DSNA or the NM to mitigate capacity issues.

Application of Corrective Measures for Capacity (if applicable)

Traffic recovery for DSNA has reached 89,3% of 2019 traffic for the full year and 92% of 2019 traffic during the Summer period with peaks at or above 2019 traffic levels for some sectors.

Delays due weather and to some staffing and capacity issues remain at Paris, Marseilles and Reims ACCs even if capacity and staffing delays have been reduced compared to 2019 (divided by two).

Some 2022 DSNA delays are also due to industrial actions (twice 2019 delays due to industrial actions).

The main reason for 2022 delays (1/3 of 2022 ER delays) is the impact on Marseilles and Reims ACCs of the training, validation and implementation of the new ATM system 4-FLIGHT and associated transition plans. Most of delays were incurred at Reims where this new system has been implemented for the 1st time 4th April 2022.

Due to technical issues on the core FDPS system which needed to be corrected by the manufacturer or to be taken into account for the development of an updated version of the software to be implementaed at a later stage, the transition plan has been extended (until November 2022) and some capacity reductions have been maintained longer than expected, in particular in the lower sectors (under FL 345).

Lesson learnt from Reims ACC 4-FLIGHT implementation and software corrections done by the manufacturer to mitigate some technical issues identified during the Reims ACC implementaiton in April enabled Marseille to implement 4-FLIGHT 6th December 2022 with less impact on the traffic.

Recommendations to the ANSP: A specific meeting was organized with DSNA in order to gather both explanations and information about remedial measures already launched and identify potential additional measures that could be implemented by DSNA in 2023 and beyond to tackle non temporary capacity issues.

The following recommendations / course of actions have been discussed and agreed with DSNA:
- General remedial measures already identified, coordinated with the Network Manager and published in the NOP 2023-2027 for the 5 French ACC should be implemented as soon as possible;
- A set of specific remedial measures put in place by DSNA or already planned in 2023 to mitigate identified non temporary issues at the French ACCs have been presented to the French NSA and are listed in the table below: the French NSA will be kept informed by DSNA of their timely implementation, of the expected benefit and of any issue in the implementation plan, and a follow-up meeting will be organized before the end of 2023;
- An analysis of potential risks on 2023 and beyond underperformance has been carried over and required potential remedial measures to address such a situation have been discussed; they are also addressed in the final chapter of the en route capacity tab of the monitoring together with the actions taken by the NSA to monitor future performance through its surveillance program.Planned remedial actionsActions already performed by ANSP to address capacity performance issues

It should also be noted that during year 2023 a national pension scheme reform has been announced by the French Government and should be discussed 1st half of the year. Internally, a new social agreement for the 2023 - 2027 period will be discussed between DGAC, the French ministries of Finance, Public administration and Transport and the Unions, with the aim to sign it and implement it before the end of the year.

These two social events could lead to industrial actions and social unrest having an impact on DSNA performance. In this case all possible collaborative decision management processes shall be used with the airspace users, the network manager and neighbouring ANSPs in order to mitigate as much as possible the impact on the users.

In addition a special coordination will take place between NM, DFS and DSNA to prepare Summer 2023 regarding additional flights to be rerouted from Karlsruhe ACC to Reims ACC in order a address some staffing issues at Karlsruhe.

Other indicators

Focus on ATCOs in operations

Regarding ATCO planning, the plans are and will always be subject to change; in addition, the details of the planned evolution of ATCO numbers within an ANSP with several ACCs are socially sensitive.

However, ATCO hiring and assignment is one of the major driver for current capacity and staffing issues solving. ACE figures are provided and can be referred to. Nevertheless, the French NSA considers that they cannot be considered as a commitment where planning figures are requested, due to the high level of uncertainties related to such ATCO recruitement plans management. These figures, even when provided on annual basis, can only be regarded as snapshot information, i.e. a situation at one point in time which does not guarantee a realistic view throughout the entire duration of RP3.

There are many factors with a high level of uncertainty that have an impact on the ATCO planning: first of all, the social agreements in place in an ANSP play a major role in the availability of ATCOs to fulfill the OPS needs (a new social agreement is currently under discussion and should be signed before end 2023 ; certain provisions - recruitment levels, flexibility and rostering, staff retention incentives - could have an impact on futures values).

Then, there are classical uncertainty factors of general staff planning like the actual rate of retirement, the absence rate of employees, as well as maternity and parent leave. Moreover, ATCOs mobility has become a severe issue recently, moreover when understaffed ACC are concerned.

Terminal performance

Arrival ATFM delay (KPI#2)

Focus on arrival ATFM delay

For France, the scope of the RP3 monitoring comprises a total of 58 airports. However, in accordance with IR (EU) 2019/317 and the traffic figures, only 6 of those airports must be monitored for pre-departure delays. 52 of these 58 airports are grouped into a basket (“LFXX”) for monitoring and target setting purposes.
The Airport Operator Data Flow, necessary for the monitoring of the pre-departure delays, is established for the 6 airports required. Nevertheless, the quality of the reporting does not allow for the calculation of the ATC pre-departure delay at Paris Charles de Gaulle, with more than 50% of the reported delay not allocated to any cause.
The traffic at the ensemble of these 58 airports in 2022 was still 15% below the 2019 levels, despite the 43% increase with respect to 2021.
Average arrival ATFM delays in 2022 was 0.62 min/arr, compared to 0.23 min/arr in 2021.
ATFM slot adherence has improved (2022: 89.2%; 2021: 88.4%).

The average arrival ATFM delays have increased at 5 of the 6 main French airports.
The highest increase was observed at Paris Orly (LFPO) where they averaged 1.74 min/arr., one of the highest values in the SES area in 2022. 45% of these delays at Orly were attributed to Aerodrome Capacity issues, followed by 25% attributed to Weather and 14% to ATC Staffing.
Nice (LFMN) also observed a moderate increase resulting in 0.85 min/arr. 73% of these delays were attributed to ATC Staffing issues.
The rest of the main French airports remained below the SES average for arrival ATFM delay in 2022 (0.52 min/arr.)

The French monitoring report lists 5 measures and remedial actions (see table below)3. Arrival ATFM Delay – National TargetThe national target on arrival ATFM delay in 2022 was not met, with actual arrival ATFM delays at 0.62 min/arr. in average, and the national target set at 0.40 min/arr. According to the French monitoring report, this is mainly due to the following reasons: - During the previous years, in order to address the en route staffing and capacity issues due to ATCO shortages in some DSNA ACCs, priority has been given to recruiting, training and assigning staff to the 5 French ACCs. In that context, some DSNA approaches and towers are now progressively also experiencing locally staff shortages (for example Paris-Orly, Basel or Bordeaux airports…);
With the 2022 traffic progressively catching up pre covid levels, some airports located in touristic areas (such as the South-East of France: Nice and Marseille airports for example, but also Corsica airports) have faced a strong increase in traffic, with Summer traffic close to 2019 levels and high peak-hours in some cases ; meanwhile Toulon approach has been transferred to Nice approach in 2023, also having a significant impact on Nice ATC capacity this year.
- Paris-Orly airport has also been impacted by construction work on taxiways and by staff shortage and the new rostering scheme couldn’t be implemented in 2022;
- However, it should be noted that weather and industrial action and aerodrome capacity (main non-CRSTMP delays causes for 2022) represent 45% of the French terminal delays in 2022.

Regarding the recommendations to the ANSP to rectify the situation, the French NSA reports:

A specific meeting has been organized with DSNA in order to gather both explanations and information about remedial measures already launched and identify potential additional measures that could be implemented by DSNA in 2023 and beyond to tackle non temporary terminal capacity issues.
The following recommendations / course of actions have been discussed and agreed with DSNA:
- A set of specific remedial measures put in place by DSNA or already planned in 2023 to mitigate identified non temporary issues at the French approaches and towers have been presented to the French NSA and are listed in the table below: the French NSA will be kept informed by DSNA of their timely implementation, of the expected benefit and of any issue in the implementation plan, and a follow-up meeting will be organized before the end of 2023;
- An analysis of potential risks on 2023 and beyond underperformance has been carried over and required potential remedial measures to address such a situation have been discussed; they are also addressed in the final chapter of the terminal capacity tab of the monitoring together with the actions taken by the NSA to monitor future performance through its surveillance programSee comments and remedial measures listed above, which, for most of them address the whole RP3 timeframe including risks which are likely to lead to performance targets not being achieved in 2023 and 2024. It should also be noted that during year 2023 a national pension scheme reform has been annouced by the French Government and should be discussed 1st half of the year. Internally, a new social agreement for the 2023 - 2027 period will be discussed between DGAC, the French ministries of Finance, Public administration and Transport and the Unions, with the aim to sign it and implement it before the end of the year. These two events, socially sensitive, could lead to industrial actions and social unrest having an impact on DSNA performance. In this case all possible collaborative decision management processes shall be used with the airspace users, the network manager and neighboring ANSPs in order to mitigate as much as possible the impact on the users.The French NSA will closery monitor the implementation of the above listed remedial measures by DSNA and assess their impact on the en route capacity performance through its suveillance program ; should any additional measures be necessary, it will be studied and discussed accordingly with DSNA in order to asses their feasibility, their potential impact on other performance area KPIs, their benefits and the related implementation timeline. The French NSA will be involved in the discussions regarding the social agreement dicsussions and their implementation.

National level and main national individual airports involved are above the 80% threshold of compliance.
The national average was 89.2%, slightly better than in 2021 when the adherence was 88.4%. With regard to the 10.8% of flights that did not adhere, 5.1% was early and 5.8% was late.
The French monitoring report explains: Globally, DSNA has reported to the NSA some issues in relation with the adherence to CTOT. Root causes as well as corrective measures have been identified and already been partially implemented to improve the performance.
They address both systemic elements applicable to many airports and specific items to solve the situation in Marseille where the 80% threshold was not met in 2022.
Several causes are noticed with regard to the adherence to CTOT:
- 2 to 5 minutes structural difference between the actual take-off time and the ATOT issued via FSA message. Operational and technical options are investigated to solve it.
- Strong demand on parking stands in relation with seasonal traffic or platform infrastructures (limited number of taxiways).
- ATM system related issues:
– technical : update rates (especially for new CTOT) in CHMI and ATC systems not synchronised (as a work around, investigation of using NMP FLOW as an additional tool)
– operational : information disseminated on 3 tools to be monitored by ATCOs
- Conflicting priorities between aircraft operators requesting and accepting any slot improvement and the departure sequence put in place by ATCOs.


On the specific case of Marseille, all the flights subject to a slot extension request by TWR were on the NM list (NMIR sources) of flights that did not adhere to their slot.
Numerous requests / interactions from TWR are likely to induce an overload on certain key personnel contributing to the FMP. A refresher training has been performed to FMP staff on applicable procedures as well as raising TWR staff awareness on that aspect and request them to focus coordination with the FMP on essential items (a list of routine / non-essential items was drafted and communicated) only in such situations.
As a baseline, DSNA will strengthen the awareness of ATCOs in towers and approaches on the importance of aiming at precisely adhering to CTOT versus -5 minutes practice in case of departure ahead of CTOT.
Ultimately, many actions will be undertaken by DSNA in favour of the TWR-APP in 2023:
- Organisation of the REX (lesson learnt) ATFCM TWR-APP 2022 : work on the state of play and national coordination which led to the creation of a network of experts with a national POC for the TWR-APP;
- Participation to a Taxi Time WG at the European network level;
- Launch of a national communication campaign on ATFM in the course of the preparation of the TWR-APP summer 2023 season;
- On site tailor-made training delivered by FMP staff and Direction of operations headquarter staff at the request of the TWR units.
- Immersion days in FMPs organised by some FMPs for the benefit of TWR units.

Other terminal performance indicators (PI#1-3)

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 2023 2022 2020 2021 2023 2022 2020 2021 2023 2022 2020 2021 2023 2022
Agen/La-Garenne NA NA NA NA 79.2% 85.7% NA% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Ajaccio/Napoléon-Bonaparte NA 0.05 NA 0.05 76.4% 71.3% NA% 74.3% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Albert/Bray NA 0.00 NA NA 44.0% 72.7% NA% 89.2% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Annecy/Meythet 0.16 0.06 NA 0.36 74.9% 82.3% NA% 88.8% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Avignon/Caumont 0.23 0.02 NA 0.28 78.7% 84.8% NA% 87.5% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Bale/Mulhouse 0.41 0.05 NA 0.21 87.4% 89.2% NA% 89.5% 0.13 0.12 NA 0.25 8.6 11.5 NA 14.3
Bastia/Poretta 0.00 0.06 NA 0.12 80.7% 87.0% NA% 88.4% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Beauvais/Tillé 0.05 0.01 NA 0.01 72.6% 89.3% NA% 89.6% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Bergerac/Roumanière NA 0.14 NA NA 81.8% 89.4% NA% 92.1% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Biarritz/Bayonne-Anglet 0.05 0.15 NA 0.20 88.8% 93.0% NA% 92.1% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Bordeaux/Merignac 0.77 0.07 NA 0.17 91.5% 89.7% NA% 89.4% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Brest/Bretagne NA 0.05 NA 0.00 97.0% 83.8% NA% 80.2% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Brive/Souillac NA NA NA NA 95.7% 85.6% NA% 90.0% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Béziers/Vias NA NA NA NA 68.5% 70.7% NA% 70.8% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Caen/Carpiquet NA 0.00 NA NA 94.2% 92.3% NA% 92.7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Calvi/Sainte-Catherine 0.07 0.28 NA 0.28 82.1% 87.3% NA% 91.2% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Cannes/Mandelieu 2.97 3.00 NA 2.86 93.4% 90.2% NA% 94.9% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Carcassonne/Salvaza NA 0.00 NA NA 81.8% 84.3% NA% 86.4% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Chambéry/Aix-les-Bains 1.67 0.08 NA 0.94 89.3% 82.5% NA% 82.0% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Châlons/Vatry 0.50 0.78 NA 0.80 78.0% 86.1% NA% 90.0% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Châteauroux/Déols NA NA NA NA 86.7% 84.9% NA% 85.9% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Clermont-Ferrand/Auvergne 0.00 0.01 NA 0.00 81.5% 86.9% NA% 83.7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Deauville/Normandie NA NA NA 0.15 90.0% 88.6% NA% 86.7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Dinard/Pleurtuit-Saint-Malo NA NA NA NA 61.3% 93.2% NA% 92.7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Dole/Tavaux NA NA NA NA 59.4% 77.5% NA% 84.4% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Figari/Sud-Corse 0.18 1.24 NA 0.34 80.3% 76.8% NA% 86.4% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Grenoble/Isère 0.50 0.02 NA 0.58 93.6% 85.2% NA% 90.4% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Hyères/Le-Palyvestre 0.06 0.04 NA 1.28 81.1% 88.3% NA% 88.9% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Istres/Le-Tubé NA NA NA NA 66.7% 68.4% NA% 82.3% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
La-Rochelle/Ile de Ré NA NA NA 0.00 81.2% 89.2% NA% 84.4% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Lille/Lesquin 0.33 0.01 NA 0.05 86.1% 87.7% NA% 90.7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Limoges/Bellegarde 0.19 0.11 NA 1.30 93.4% 92.4% NA% 87.9% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Lorient/Lann-Bihoué NA NA NA NA 88.8% 88.3% NA% 87.1% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Lyon 0.03 0.00 NA 0.04 84.5% 84.1% NA% 86.8% 0.17 0.21 NA 0.32 12.0 11.9 NA 20.0
Lyon/Bron 0.01 NA NA 0.00 89.5% 83.8% NA% 87.4% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Marseille/Provence 0.10 0.01 NA 0.24 78.3% 83.4% NA% 77.8% NA 0.05 NA 0.13 9.6 9.9 NA 18.0
Metz-Nancy/Lorraine NA NA NA NA 82.5% 84.6% NA% 91.4% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Montpellier/Méditerranée 0.01 NA NA 0.00 75.1% 84.6% NA% 84.9% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Nantes 0.24 0.08 NA 0.05 91.6% 91.3% NA% 91.9% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Nice 0.13 0.39 NA 0.85 87.7% 88.8% NA% 87.6% 0.21 0.38 NA 0.52 7.5 10.5 NA 18.4
Nîmes/Garons NA 0.02 NA 0.07 83.4% 82.5% NA% 88.3% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Paris/Charles-De-Gaulle 0.11 0.22 NA 0.45 95.4% 94.7% NA% 93.9% NA NA NA NA 12.9 17.1 NA 21.3
Paris/Le Bourget 0.60 0.53 NA 1.84 94.2% 95.3% NA% 95.1% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Paris/Orly 0.96 0.25 NA 1.74 87.3% 90.4% NA% 88.5% 0.33 0.49 NA 1.25 13.4 12.5 NA 17.3
Pau/Pyrénées 1.45 0.00 NA NA 85.9% 87.6% NA% 88.1% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Perpignan/Rivesaltes 0.07 0.03 NA 0.01 77.4% 77.0% NA% 83.7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Poitiers/Biard NA NA NA NA 87.8% 72.5% NA% 71.0% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Quimper/Pluguffan NA NA NA NA 84.7% 90.6% NA% 90.0% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Rennes/St-Jacques NA NA NA NA 78.7% 86.7% NA% 89.2% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Rodez/Marcillac NA NA NA NA 88.5% 82.5% NA% 85.2% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Rouen/Vallée-de-Seine NA 0.27 NA 0.04 NA 83.9% NA% 79.2% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Saint-Etienne/Bouthéon NA NA NA NA 79.6% 86.8% NA% 90.1% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Saint-Nazaire/Montoir NA NA NA NA 97.2% 94.7% NA% 94.7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Strasbourg/Entzheim 0.03 0.01 NA 0.00 79.6% 88.9% NA% 90.1% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Tarbes-Lourdes/Pyrénées NA 0.02 NA 0.04 90.5% 91.3% NA% 89.7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Toulouse/Blagnac 0.16 0.26 NA 0.06 90.2% 89.0% NA% 89.1% 0.17 0.21 NA 0.28 8.9 8.3 NA 13.1
Tours/Val-de-Loire 0.00 0.11 NA 9.32 50.0% 0.0% NA% 66.7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Toussus/Le-Noble 0.97 0.89 NA 2.94 77.7% 88.3% NA% 89.3% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
Focus on performance indicators at airport level

ATFM slot adherence

The share of unidentified delay reported by Charles de Gaulle (LFPG) was above 40% for more than 2 months in the year, preventing the calculation of this indicator for this airport.
The French NSA reports, based on the alternative data source from the airlines (Aircraft Operator Data Flow), following ATC pre-departure delay figures for Charles de Gaulle (2020: 0.48 min/dep; 2021: 0.62 min/dep; 0.92 min/dep). This data source however does not cover all flights so these figures are only available for information purposes.
The data quality at Marseille (LFML) and Toulouse (LFBO) has improved and the calculation of ATC pre-departure delay is possible for 2022.
The most significant deterioration was observed at Paris Orly (LFPO; 2021: 0.54 min/dep.; 2022: 1.25 min/dep.) resulting in the third highest among the SES monitored airports.
According to the French monitoring report: Performance evolution is linked with the traffic increase evolution till 2020 and general ATC performance ; however 2022 figures are generally equivalent or better than 2019 figures and generally equivalent or better than during the whole RP2 with equivalent traffics, showing general progress on the additional time in terminal airspace phase at some French airports, except for LFMN and LFPG where traffic recovery has been stronger than expected.
In 2022 we can see that despite the increase in traffic, CDG has improved its reporting ([DLY_89] + [DLY_OTHER]), particularly since May 2022, but unfortunately, the quality threshold for unidentified delays has never fallen below 40%, the 1st condition for publication. CDG currently mainly uses the code [ZZZ], which indicates that they have no information about the origin of the various delays. This situation will be examined in detailed with DSNA OPS department in order to improve this data provision in 2023.

ATC pre-departure delay

The total (all causes) delay in the actual off block time at French airports in 2022 increased significantly at all French airports monitored for this indicator. The values range from 13.08 min/dep for Toulouse(LFBO) to 21.34 min/dep. for Paris Charles de Gaulle (LFPG).
The highest delays per flight at these airports were observed in Summer and December.

According to the French monitoring report: An additional reason is also the impact of the en route delays due to the 4-FLIGHT implementation in Reims ACC, but also the impact of capacity shortages at Karlsruhe ACC.
Staff shortages where also experienced at airports (either in France or abroad) which had a strong impact on this performance indicator.

All causes pre-departure delay

No data available: airport operator data flow not established, or more than two months of missing / non-validated data

 
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