Annual Monitoring Report 2022 - 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
2022: 4.92795 RON
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2022 4.4%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2022 3.0%
Share en route / terminal costs 2022 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 656K actual IFR movements in 2022, +45% compared to 2021 (454K).
▪ Actual 2022 IFR movements were +8.5% above the plan (605K).
▪ Actual 2022 IFR movements represent 88% of the actual 2019 level (747K).
▪ Romania recorded 4,770K actual en route service units in 2022, +66% compared to 2021 (2,870K).
▪ Actual 2022 service units were +4.1% above the plan (4,583K).
▪ Actual 2022 service units represent 93% of the actual 2019 level (5,117K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ ROMATSA has already exceeded the RP3 EoSM targets in 2020 and remained on or above the targets since then. ROMATSA, together with the NSA, developed a safety strategy including various measures to monitor the implementation and efficiency of safety action to ensure high safety performance.
▪ Romania recorded stable performance with respect to safety occurrences, with no runway incursions and a marginal increase in the rate of separation minima infringements relative to 2021. The NSA regularly monitors the safety occurrences and perform specialized analysis on daily, quarterly, and yearly basis.
▪ ROMATSA could improve its safety management by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Romania achieved a KEA performance of 3.36% compared to its target of 2.05% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target. KEA worsened by 1.14 p.p. compared to 2021.
▪ The NSA states that despite the significant traffic reduction, previous geopolitical situations continue (Black Sea, Eastern Ukraine, and Crimea) and are further exacerbated by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, and related RAD restrictions in 2022.
▪ KEP and SCR worsened by 0.97 and 1.66 p.p. respectively.
▪ The share of CDO flights decreased by 9.38% compared to 2021.
▪ During 2022, additional time in terminal airspace increased from 0.57 to 0.58 min/flight, while additional taxi out time increased from 1.66 to 2.08 min/flight.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Romania registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2022, thus achieving the local target value of 0.04.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 12% below 2019 levels in Romania in 2022.
▪ A 12% increase in the number of ATCOs in OPS is expected by the end of RP3 with the actual value being in line with the 2022 plan in Bucharest ACC.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Bucharest ACC was 42,459 in 2022, showing a 24.5% increase compared to 2021. Sector opening hours are 0.9% below 2019 levels.
▪ Bucharest ACC registered 18.35 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2022, being 10.1% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2022 actual unit cost of Romania was 38.10 €2017, 3.1% lower than the determined unit cost (39.32 €2017).5 The terminal 2022 actual unit cost was 287.04 €2017, 11% higher than the determined unit cost (257.81 €2017).
▪ The en route 2022 actual service units (4,770K) were 4.1% higher than the determined service units (4,583K).
▪ The en route 2022 actual total costs were 1.6 M€2017 (+0.9%) higher than determined. The increase in staff costs (+5.1 M€2017, or +3.8%) compared to determined was partially offset by decreases in other operating costs and cost of capital. Staff costs increased mainly due to an increase in pension cost and inflation compensation.
▪ ROMATSA spent 17.9 M€2017 in 2022 related to costs of investments, 1.7% less than planned (18.2 M€2017), due to delays of nine investments as result of delays in procurement procedures.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2022 was 45.42€, while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users was 316.41€.