Annual Monitoring Report 2023 - Luxembourg
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2024/343 of 13 December 2023
List of ACCs 0
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 1
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2023: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2023 2.0%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2023 3.5%
Share en route / terminal costs 2023 94% / 6%
En route charging zone(s)
Belgium-Luxembourg
Terminal charging zone(s)
Luxembourg
Main ANSP
• ANA Lux
Other ANSPs
• skeyes
• MUAC
MET Providers
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Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Please refer to the Belgium-Luxembourg traffic zone
▪ Actual 2023 IFR movements were -1.3% below the plan (1,173K).
▪ Actual 2023 IFR movements represent 93% of the actual 2019 level (1,249K).
▪ The en route charging zone of Belgium-Luxembourg recorded 2,447K actual en route service units in 2023, +17% compared to 2022 (2,096K).
▪ Actual 2023 service units were +2% above the plan (2,404K).
▪ Actual 2023 service units represent 93% of the actual 2019 level (2,620K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ ANA Lux did not achieve its planned maturity levels in 2023 and showed degrading performance compared with 2022. ANA Lux has established a Corrective Action Plan addressing specific areas for improvements and adding further resources. The NSA expects this is sufficient to meet the RP3 targets.
▪ The overall safety performance of ANA Lux was stable, the rate of occurrences was comparable with previous years and remained below the Union-wide average.
▪ ANA Lux does not use automated safety data recording systems.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Luxembourg registered an average airport arrival ATFM delay of 1.36 minutes per flight in 2023, thus not achieving the local target of 0.05 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2022, the number of IFR arrivals in Luxembourg increased by 3.1%, while the average airport arrival ATFM delay increased from 0.10 to 1.36 minutes per flight.
▪ The main reason for delays was other, non-ATC related causes, accounting for 93% of delays.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2023 actual unit cost of Belgium-Luxembourg was 88.09 €2017, -2.5% lower than the determined unit cost (90.34 €2017). The terminal actual unit cost of Belgium was 234.71 €2017, -2.1% lower than the determined unit cost (239.73 €2017). The terminal actual unit cost of Luxembourg was 263.82 €2017, +14% higher than the determined unit cost (231.72 €2017).
▪ The en route 2023 actual service units (2.45M) were +1.8% higher than the determined service units (2.40M).
▪ The en route 2023 actual total costs were -1.7 M€2017 (-0.8%) lower compared to determined. The gap was mainly attributable to lower other operating costs (-4.6 M€2017, or -10%). The NSA explained that the lower other operating costs resulted from utility expenses decreasing more rapidly than anticipated in 2023, following a steep increase in the previous year.
▪ skeyes spent 12 M€2017 in 2023 related to costs of investments for en route charging zone, which was more than determined (+0.4 M€2017, or +3.4%). According to the NSA, this overspend is due to the “decommissioning of equipment (ISAAC SR4, old WAN)” which was not foreseen in the performance plan, resulting in an overspent of depreciation costs (+0.4 M€2017, or +4.8%).
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users of Belgium-Luxembourg in 2023 was 106.60€ (-2.2% below the 2023 DUC), while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users was 214.99€ (-26% below the 2023 DUC) for Belgium and 236.97€ (-12% below the 2023 DUC) for Luxembourg. The difference between the AUCU and the DUC for the Belgium EBBR charging zone is strongly affected by the adjustment of other revenues (-11 M€).