Safety - France

PRB monitoring

▪ In 2023 DSNA undertook the thorough review of its SMS function, concluding that some of the requirements were not met anymore. Consecutively, the maturity levels for four management objectives (safety culture, policy and objectives, risk management and safety promotion) were downgraded and DSNA achieved the RP3 targets only for safety assurance.

▪ DSNA has developed a corrective action plan ensuring that they can regaining the target levels. The NSA is monitoring implementation of the actions closely through continuous monitoring.

▪ France recorded an increase in the rate of runway incursions and a decrease in the rate of separation minima infringements relative to 2022. DSNA should continue assessing occurrences and risk mitigate them according to their SMS, if necessary.

▪ DSNA monitors and analyses the safety data using automated recording tools for separation minima infringements. The French NSA oversight addresses those elements.

▪ DSNA do not use automated safety data recording systems for runway incursions.

Effectiveness of Safety Management (EoSM) (KPI#1)

Over 2023, the ANSP has degraded in four out of five EoSM components and achieved the target only for “Safety Assurance”. The ANSP is expected to improve seven questions to achieve RP3 targets during RP3.

Detailed information on Safety performance monitoring for the year 2023 are included in Performance Review Body Monitoring Report 2023, Annex I – Safety report

Safety occurrences

Rate of runway incursions (RIs) (PI#1)

Rate of RIs per 100,000 airport movements - France
# Airport name APT movements Number of RI Rate RI per 100,000
1 Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle 548,705 4 0.73
2 Nice-Côte d’Azur 240,204 1 0.42
3 Paris-Orly 235,929 2 0.85
4 Marseille-Provence 210,689 2 0.95
5 Lyon 182,248 0 0.00
6 Bâle-Mulhouse 156,648 0 0.00
7 Montpellier-Méditerranée 149,397 0 0.00
8 Toulouse-Blagnac 143,993 1 0.69
9 Nantes-Atlantique 130,684 0 0.00
10 Bordeaux-Mérignac 117,015 0 0.00
11 Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne 98,968 0 0.00
12 Strasbourg-Entzheim 85,337 0 0.00
13 Rennes-Saint-Jacques 82,911 0 0.00
14 Toussus-le-Noble 82,701 2 2.42
15 Lille-Lesquin 81,289 0 0.00
16 Paris-Le Bourget 80,316 1 1.25
17 Pau-Pyrénées 79,146 0 0.00
18 Cannes-Mandelieu 78,187 0 0.00
19 Brest-Bretagne 66,670 1 1.50
20 Lyon-Bron 64,661 0 0.00
21 Beauvais-Tillé 57,151 0 0.00
22 Ajaccio-Napoléon-Bonaparte 52,595 0 0.00
23 Perpignan-Rivesaltes 50,699 0 0.00
24 Chambéry-Savoie 50,502 0 0.00
25 Biarritz-Bayonne-Anglet 49,014 1 2.04
26 Limoges-Bellegarde 47,703 0 0.00
27 Avignon-Caumont 46,611 1 2.15
28 Annecy-Meythet 44,906 0 0.00
29 Bastia-Poretta 43,953 0 0.00
30 Poitiers-Biard 41,071 0 0.00
31 La Rochelle-Ile de Ré 40,451 0 0.00
32 Grenoble-Isère 37,384 1 2.67
33 Hyères-Le Palyvestre 35,943 2 5.56
34 Nîmes-Garons 32,987 0 0.00
35 Rouen 28,679 0 0.00
36 Béziers-Vias 26,213 0 0.00
37 Deauville-Normandie 25,828 0 0.00
38 Dinard-Pleurtuit-Saint-Malo 23,130 0 0.00
39 Figari Sud-Corse 21,063 0 0.00
40 Lorient-Lann Bihoué 20,937 0 0.00
41 Carcassonne-Salvaza 20,887 0 0.00
42 Caen-Carpiquet 19,728 0 0.00
43 Istres-Le Tubé 19,164 1 5.22
44 Tarbes-Lourdes Pyrénées 18,688 0 0.00
45 Agen-La Garenne 18,238 0 0.00
46 Saint-Etienne-Bouthéon 18,204 0 0.00
47 Saint-Nazaire-Montoir 18,077 0 0.00
48 Châteauroux-Déols 16,507 0 0.00
49 Bergerac-Roumanière 16,175 0 0.00
50 Tours-Val de Loire 15,765 0 0.00
51 Quimper-Pluguffan 15,452 0 0.00
52 Calvi-Sainte-Catherine 12,178 0 0.00
53 Brive-Souillac 11,993 0 0.00
54 Rodez-Marcillac 10,991 0 0.00
55 Metz-Nancy-Lorraine 10,833 0 0.00
56 Dôle-Tavaux 9,678 1 10.33
57 Châlons-Vatry 8,204 0 0.00
58 Albert-Bray 7,054 0 0.00

Detailed information on Safety performance monitoring for the year 2023 are included in Performance Review Body Monitoring Report 2023, Annex I – Safety report

Rate of separation minima infringements (SMIs) (PI#2)

Rate of SMI with ANS contribution per 100,000 flight hours
# ANSP
Flight hours
Number of SMIs
Rate of SMI per 100,000 flight hours
% variation in rate of SMIs
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
1 DSNA 1,051,941 1,415,222 2,178,853 2,368,932 NA 133 272 304 226 NA 12.6 19.2 14.0 9.5 NA NA +52% -27% -32% NA

Detailed information on Safety performance monitoring for the year 2023 are included in Performance Review Body Monitoring Report 2023, Annex I – Safety report

Quality of occurences reporting

Detailed information on Safety performance monitoring for the year 2023 are included in Performance Review Body Monitoring Report 2023, Annex I – Safety report

Use of automated safety data recording system (ASDRS) (PI#3)

Use of automated safety data recording system - 2023
For RIs For SMIs
  ✘   ✓

Detailed information on Safety performance monitoring for the year 2023 are included in Performance Review Body Monitoring Report 2023, Annex I – Safety report