Annual Monitoring Report 2023 - 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
2023: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2023 0.9%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2023 0.9%
Share en route / terminal costs 2023 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 530K actual IFR movements in 2023, +13% compared to 2022 (470K).
▪ Actual 2023 IFR movements were +26% above the plan (422K).
▪ Actual 2023 IFR movements represent 94% of the actual 2019 level (562K).
▪ Slovakia recorded 1,083K actual en route service units in 2023, +11% compared to 2022 (973K).
▪ Actual 2023 service units were +14% above the plan (953K).
▪ Actual 2023 service units represent 84% of the actual 2019 level (1,292K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ LPS SR improved its performance for safety assurance in 2023 and as a result achieved the RP3 targets for all management objectives.
▪ Slovakia recorded stable performance with respect to safety occurrences, with higher rate of runway incursions and separation minima infringements. The NSA closely monitored the separation minima infringements throughout the year and established acceptable and tolerable levels of safety.
▪ LPS SR do not use automated safety data recording systems for runway incursions.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Slovakia achieved a KEA performance of 4.05% compared to its target of 2.13% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ 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 significant impact on KEA is derived from the significant shift in trajectories due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
▪ Both KEP and SCR improved compared to 2022. Despite the KEA target being missed, the improvement in SCR shows that Slovakia has improved the environmental efficiency of its airspace when accounting for impacts outside of its control.
▪ Slovakia has no airports that are regulated under the performance and charging scheme.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Slovakia registered 0.04 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2023 which has been adjusted to 0.03 during the post-ops adjustment process, thus achieving the local target value of 0.08. Delays in Slovakia increased by 0.03 minutes per flight year-on-year.
▪ Delays were highest in July, mostly driven by adverse weather conditions.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Slovakia increased by 0.5 percentage points compared to 2022 and was lower than 2019 values.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 6% below 2019 levels in Slovakia in 2023.
▪ The number of ATCOs in OPS is expected to increase by 9% by 2024, with the actual value being over the 2023 plan in Bratislava by 7 FTEs.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Bratislava ACC was 24,551, showing a 10% increase compared to 2022. Sector opening hours are 0.1% below 2019 levels.
▪ Bratislava ACC registered 21.02 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2023, being 5.5% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2023 actual unit cost of Slovakia was 51.54€2017, -13% lower than the determined unit cost (59.12€2017). Slovakia does not have a terminal charging zone.
▪ The en route 2023 actual service units (1.1M) were +14% higher than the determined service units (1.0M).
▪ The en route 2023 actual total costs were -0.5M€2017 (-0.9%) lower than determined. This was mainly due to an underspend in other operating costs (-2.2M€2017 or -17%). However, the NSA did not provide explanations for this underspend.
▪ LPS SR spent 9.7M€2017 in 2023 related to costs of investments, +31% more than determined (7.5M€2017), primarily due to the higher prices for new assets, which have been affected by inflation.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2023 was 69.92€ (+7.3% above the 2023 DUC).