Annual Monitoring Report 2023 - Cyprus
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/2422 of 5 December 2022
List of ACCs 1
Nicosia ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2023: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2023 1.7%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2023 0.9%
Share en route / terminal costs 2023 100% / 0%
En route charging zone(s)
Cyprus
Terminal charging zone(s)
Main ANSP
• DCAC Cyprus
Other ANSPs
–
MET Providers
• Department of Meteorology of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Cyprus recorded 402K actual IFR movements in 2022, +17% compared to 2022 (344K).
▪ Actual 2023 IFR movements were -3.5% below the plan (417K).
▪ Actual 2023 IFR movements represent 98% of the actual 2019 level (411K).
▪ Cyprus recorded 2,066K actual en route service units in 2023, +16% compared to 2022 (1,788K).
▪ Actual 2023 service units were -2.9% below the plan (2,129K).
▪ Actual 2023 service units are in line with the actual 2019 level (2,068K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ Cyprus (CYATS) improved its performance in safety risk management and safety promotion, reaching the RP3 target in 2023. Only safety policy and objectives require improvement. This management objective has not improved much over RP3.
▪ CYATS maintains its safety action plan, which is regularly updated, detailing the measures put in place to achieve the safety targets.
▪ Cyprus recorded a stable performance with respect to the safety occurrences with a slight decrease in rate of separation minima infringements (SMIs) and no occurrences of runway incursions (RIs) in 2023.
▪ CYATS do not use automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Cyprus achieved a KEA performance of 4.73% compared to its target of 3.84% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ The NSA states that the target was not met due to the inability to optimise traffic flows in the entirety of the Nicosia FIR.
▪ Both KEP and SCR improved in comparison to 2022. Despite the KEA target being missed, the improvement in SCR shows that Cyprus has improved the environmental efficiency of its airspace when accounting for impacts outside of its control.
▪ Cyprus has no airports that are regulated under the performance and charging scheme.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Cyprus registered 0.04 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2023, thus achieving the local target value of 0.15. Delays in Cyprus increased by 0.04 minutes per flight year-on-year.
▪ Delays were highest in February and March, mostly due to ATC Capacity reasons.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Cyprus decreased by 1 percentage point compared to 2022 and was lower than 2019 values.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 2% below 2019 levels in Cyprus in 2023.
▪ The number of ATCOs in OPS is expected to increase by 28% by 2024, with the actual value meeting the 2023 plan in Nicosia.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Nicosia ACC was 26,886, showing an 11.9% increase compared to 2022. Sector opening hours are 9.1% below 2019 levels.
▪ Nicosia ACC registered 14.95 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2023, being 7.4% above 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2023 actual unit cost of Cyprus was 27.43 €2017, -6.5% lower than the determined unit cost (29.35 €2017). Cyprus does not have a terminal charging zone.
▪ The en route 2023 actual service units (2.07M) were -2.9% lower than the determined service units (2.13M).
▪ The en route 2023 actual total costs were -5.8 M€2017 (-9.3%) lower than determined, as all categories registered lower-than-planned costs. According to the NSA, this difference was largely due to a reduction in other operating costs (-2.7 M€2017, or -8.8%), primarily because of “a delay in the operation of the new ACC building in Kokkinotrimithia (for which additional operating costs had been forecast)”.
▪ DCAC Cyprus spent 4.8 M€2017 in 2023 related to costs of investments, -15% less than determined (5.7 M€2017), mainly due to the partial implementation of two key investment projects.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2023 was 32.72€ (+3.7% above the 2023 DUC).
▪ The en route regulatory result for DCAC Cyprus amounted to +6.3 M€, or 14% of the 2023 revenue. This may indicate that the airspace users are charged for costs which have not materialised in 2023.
▪ The PRB will take into consideration the implementation of the RP3 performance plan when assessing the RP4 cost-efficiency targets.