Annual Monitoring Report 2024 - Finland
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/765 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Tampere ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 1
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2024: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2024 0.6%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2024 0.6%
Share en route / terminal costs 2024 73% / 27%
En route charging zone(s)
Finland
Terminal charging zone(s)
Finland
Main ANSP
• Fintraffic ANS
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
• Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Finland recorded 242K actual IFR movements in 2024, +8.0% compared to 2023 (224K).
▪ Actual 2024 IFR movements were -16.0% below the plan (288K).
▪ Actual 2024 IFR movements represent 85% of the actual 2019 level (285K).
▪ Finland recorded 749K actual service units in 2024, +13.7% compared to 2023 (659K).
▪ Actual 2024 service units were -35.8% below the plan (1,167K).
▪ Actual 2024 service units represent 74% of the actual 2019 level (1,011K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ Fintraffic ANS has improved in Safety Risk Management in 2024 and achieved the RP3 EoSM targets for all management objectives.
▪ Finland recorded a stable number of safety occurrences, below the Union-wide average.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Finland achieved a KEA performance of 3.41% compared to its target of 0.88% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ The NSA states that the performance target was not met due to the shift of the traffic flows between Russia and Kaliningrad and between Finland and Japan.
▪ Both KEP and SCR improved in comparison with 2023. The value of these two indicators is similar, meaning airspace users plan close to the shortest route available.
▪ The share of CDO flights decreased from 63.69% to 62.69% in 2024.
▪ Additional taxi out time decreased from 3.02 to 2.90 min/flight, while additional time in terminal airspace increased from 0.82 to 0.95 min/flight in 2024 compared to 2023.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Finland registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2024, which remained zero after the post-ops adjustment process, thus achieving the local target value of 0.05. Delay levels in Finland remained unchanged year-on-year.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 15% below 2019 levels in Finland in 2024.
▪ The number of ATCOs in OPS is 43, being below the 2024 plan in Tampere by 12 FTEs.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Tampere ACC was 10,715, showing a 5.4% increase compared to 2023. Sector opening hours are 20.6% below 2019 levels.
▪ Finland registered an average airport arrival ATFM delay of 0.76 minutes per flight in 2024, thus achieving the local target of 0.77 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2023, average arrival ATFM delays in Finland were 442% higher in 2024, while the number of IFR arrivals increased by 8%.
▪ The main drivers of delays were other, non-ATC related causes, accounting for 65% of delays, and weather, responsible for 35%.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2024 actual unit cost of Finland was 52.99€2017, +32% higher than the determined unit cost (40.22€2017). The terminal 2024 actual unit cost of Finland was 154.63€2017, +8.1% higher than the determined unit cost (143.03€2017).
▪ The en route 2024 actual service units (0.7M) were -36% lower than the determined service units (1.2M) mainly due to shifted traffic flows caused by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
▪ The en route 2024 actual total costs were -7.3M€2017 (-15%) lower than determined, with all cost categories registering lower-than-planned costs. This reduction is mainly driven by lower staff costs for Fintraffic ANS (-4.7M€2017, or -21%), which, as reported by the NSA, resulted mainly from lower staff numbers than planned and other costs saving measures due to the traffic loss. Other operating costs were lower than planned by -1.3M€2017 (or -11%) due to several cost savings, such as group service fees (like HR, accounting, ICT), travel cost, and leasing costs.
▪ Fintraffic ANS costs of investments were 7.0M€2017 in 2024 for both en route and terminal charging zones, -16% less than determined (8.3M€2017). According to the NSA, this reduction is due to the postponement of investments.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2024 was 56.90€ (+32% above the 2024 DUC), while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users was 212.59€ (+36% above the 2024 DUC). The difference between the AUCU and the DUC is driven by the difference between the determined and actual service units for both the en route and terminal charging zones.
▪ The en route regulatory result for Fintraffic ANS amounted to +5.9M€, or 13% of the 2024 revenue.
▪ Finland should ensure that any excessive regulatory result, including excess funds received by the ANSP due to the inflation mechanism, is either reinvested to improve the quality of services delivered to airspace users or reimbursed to them.