Annual Monitoring Report 2022 - Slovakia
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/768 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Bratislava ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2022: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2022 0.9%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2022 0.8%
Share en route / terminal costs 2022 100% / 0%
En route charging zone(s)
Slovakia
Terminal charging zone(s)
Main ANSP
• LPS SR
Other ANSPs
–
MET Providers
• SHMU
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Slovakia recorded 470K actual IFR movements in 2022, +74% compared to 2021 (271K).
▪ Actual 2022 IFR movements were +34% above the plan (351K).
▪ Actual 2022 IFR movements represent 84% of the actual 2019 level (562K).
▪ Slovakia recorded 973K actual en route service units in 2022, +59% compared to 2021 (612K).
▪ Actual 2022 service units were +22% above the plan (798K).
▪ Actual 2022 service units represent 75% of the actual 2019 level (1,292K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ In 2022, LPS SR failed to maintain the planned level for safety assurance and degraded its performance to level B due to a reorganisation of safety functions. LPS SR should ensure that adequate resources are in place to implement improvements to allow the attainment of the target again. LPS SR has achieved the RP3 target levels for the other four management objectives in advance of their plan.
▪ Slovakia recorded stable performance with respect to safety occurrences, with no occurrences recorded for runway incursions or for separation minima infringements. The NSA closely monitored the separation minima infringements throughout the year and established acceptable and tolerable levels of safety.
▪ LPS SR could improve its safety management by implementing automated safety data recording systems for runway incursions.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Slovakia achieved a KEA performance of 4.04% compared to its target of 2.13% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target. KEA worsened by 1.75 percentage points compared to 2021.
▪ The NSA states that despite the plan to implement H24 cross-border FRA, LPS SR will have limited scope for additional improvement in KEA. Additionally, the most impact on KEA is derived from the significant shift in trajectories due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
▪ Both KEP and SCR worsened in 2022 and were at their highest values in the past five years.
▪ Slovakia has no airports that are regulated under the RP3 performance and charging scheme.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Slovakia registered 0.00 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2022, which has been adjusted to zero, thus achieving the local target value of 0.07.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 16% below 2019 levels in Slovakia in 2022.
▪ The number of ATCOs in OPS is expected to increase by 9% by the end of RP3 in Bratislava ACC with the actual value being above the 2022 plan.
▪ Delays were highest between July and September, driven by adverse weather conditions and ATC Capacity issues.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Slovakia increased by 38.31 percentage points compared to 2021 and was lower than 2019 values.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Bratislava ACC was 22,709 in 2022, showing a 26.7% increase compared to 2021. Sector opening hours are 3.7% below 2019 levels.
▪ Bratislava ACC registered 21.97 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2022, being 4.8% above 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2022 actual unit cost of Slovakia was 50.66€2017, 26% lower than the determined unit cost (68.51€2017). Slovakia does not have a terminal charging zone.
▪ The en route 2022 actual service units (973K) were 22% higher than the determined service units (798K).
▪ The en route 2022 actual total costs were 5.4M€2017 (-10%) lower than planned. The significant increases in depreciation and cost of capital partially offset the decrease in total costs. The decrease was mainly attributable to lower staff costs (-5.3M€2017, or -15%) due to the non-payment of the variable salaries, a COVID-19 measure already taken in 2020 (for cashflow reasons).
▪ Slovakia presented a deviation from the criteria to achieve capacity targets, which was considered justified. Considering that costs are significantly lower and that the 2022 en route capacity targets have not been achieved, the PRB invites the NSA to analyse the discrepancies and identify their reasons, and the Member State to rectify the situation to ensure that the additional means granted through the capacity deviation are used to address the capacity issues.
▪ LPS SR spent 8.1M€2017 in 2022 related to costs of investments, 27% more than determined (6.3M€2017). The NSA explains that the increase is due to the fact that determined costs of investments were lowered in the plan by the amount underspent in RP2.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2022 was 68.58€.