Capacity - Portugal
PRB monitoring
▪ Portugal registered 0.49 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2023 which has been adjusted to 0.48 during the post-ops adjustment process, thus not achieving the local target value of 0.13. Delays in Portugal decreased by 0.18 minutes per flight year-on-year.
▪ Delays were dispersed during the whole calendar year, being the highest in May, mainly due to ATC capacity.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Portugal decreased by 3 p.p. compared to 2022 and was lower than 2019 values.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 4% above 2019 levels in Portugal in 2023.
▪ The number of ATCOs in OPS is expected to increase by 25% by 2024, with the actual value being below the 2023 plan in Lisbon by 21 FTEs.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Lisbon ACC was 68,150, showing a 2.1% increase compared to 2022. Sector opening hours are 1.4% below 2019 levels.
▪ Lisbon ACC registered 9.12 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2023, being 4.0% above 2019 levels.
▪ Year-on-year traffic growth in Portugal was 11%, with IFR movements being 14% above the STATFOR October 2021 Base forecast. While capacity provision improved and, in some aspects, exceeded 2019 performance, there remains a capacity gap, mainly due to a lack of ATCOs and airspace structure issues, which will have to be resolved to close the gap.
▪ Portugal registered an average airport arrival ATFM delay of 2.59 minutes per flight in 2023, thus not achieving the local target of 2.28 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2022, average arrival ATFM delays in Portugal were 12% higher in 2023, while the number of IFR arrivals increased by 11%.
▪ The main reasons for delays were other, non-ATC related causes, accounting for 62% of delays, and weather, responsible for 27%.
En route performance
En route ATFM delay (KPI#1)
Other indicators
Terminal performance
Arrival ATFM delay (KPI#2)
Other terminal performance indicators (PI#1-3)
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Avg arrival
ATFM delay (KPI#2)
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Slot adherence (PI#1)
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ATC pre departure
delay (PI#2)
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All causes pre departure
delay (PI#3)
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2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
Cascais | NA | NA | 0.36 | 3.48 | 82.6% | 88.9% | 94.6% | 97.5% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Faro | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 95.8% | 94.3% | 95.3% | 96.1% | 0.09 | 0.58 | 0.57 | 0.50 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 19.6 | 19.4 |
Horta | NA | NA | NA | NA | 93.8% | 90.9% | 96.1% | 97.3% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Lisbon | 1.72 | 0.28 | 3.96 | 4.88 | 96.5% | 98.8% | 98.7% | 98.8% | 2.14 | 1.22 | 3.22 | 5.66 | 12.0 | 11.0 | 25.2 | 26.4 |
Madeira | NA | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.10 | 93.2% | 93.7% | 92.9% | 97.4% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Montijo | NA | NA | NA | NA | 0.0% | 50.0% | 37.5% | 61.1% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Ponta Delgada | NA | NA | NA | 0.00 | 98.2% | 97.6% | 97.1% | 95.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Porto | 0.77 | 2.14 | 1.89 | 0.88 | 93.4% | 93.5% | 94.1% | 95.6% | 0.26 | 0.25 | 0.44 | 0.44 | 9.2 | 10.7 | 18.4 | 17.8 |
Porto Santo | NA | NA | NA | NA | 92.9% | 97.4% | 90.5% | 96.7% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Santa Maria | NA | NA | NA | NA | 100.0% | 100.0% | 92.0% | 86.7% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |