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Environment - Finland

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PRB monitoring

▪ 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.

En route performance

Horizontal flight efficiency of the actual trajectory (KEA) (KPI#1), of the last filed flight plan (KEP) (PI#1) & shortest constrained route (SCR) (PI#2)

Terminal performance

Additional taxi-out time (AXOT) (PI#3) & Arrival Sequencing and Metering Area (ASMA) time (PI#4)

Focus on ASMA & AXOT

AXOT

Additional taxi-out times at Helsinki (EFHK; 2019: 3.04 min/dep.; 2020: 1.96 min/dep.; 2021: 2.15 min/dep.; 2022: 2.81 min/dep.; 2023: 3.02 min/dep.; 2024: 2.9 min/dep.) decreased by 4% with respect to 2023 and were similar to the SES average in 2024 of 2.91 min/dep.

According to Finland’s monitoring report: No new initiatives or planned initiatives for additional taxi-out time PI. Additional taxi-out time is following the same pattern as in previous years. Additional taxi-out time is rather low from April to October and higher in the winter months due to winter maintenance and de-icing procedures.

ASMA

The additional times in the terminal airspace increased in 2024 but remained below the SES average of 1.28 min/arr (EFHK; 2019: 1.19 min/arr.; 2020: 1 min/arr.; 2021: 0.6 min/arr; 2022: 0.68 min/arr; 2023: 0.82 min/arr; 2024: 0.95 min/arr).

According to Finland’s monitoring report: No implemented or planned initiatives for additional time in terminal airspace PI.

Share of arrivals applying continuous descent operations (CDOs) (PI#5)

Focus CDOs

The share of CDO flights at Helsinki (EFHK) has remained stable at 62.7% which is well above the overall RP3 value in 2024 (29.3%) and in the higher range of all observed values in 2024.

According to Finland’s monitoring report: Goal to improve CDO percentage with TMA structure changes as part of major airspace change project in 2027. CDO might not always be the optimum approach based on flights’ operational decisions.

Airport level
Airport
Additional taxi-out time (PI#3)
Additional ASMA time (PI#4)
Share of arrivals applying CDO (PI#5)
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Helsinki-Vantaa 1.96 2.15 2.81 3.02 2.90 1.00 0.60 0.68 0.82 0.95 60% 64% 63% 63% 63%

Civil-Military dimension

Focus on Civil-Military dimension

Update on Military dimension of the plan

Military - related measures implemented or planned to improve capacity

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#6

LARA/PRISMIL implemented, automated reporting, that differs from manual calculation that was used earlier in 2020, 2021 and RP2.
The figures for 2020 and 2021 should be as follows:
2020 number of hours allocated & notified: 38340; used: 34296 (ratio 89,45%)
2021 number of hours allocated & notified: 37346; used: 33978 (ratio 90,98%)

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#7

LARA/PRISMIL implemented, automated reporting, that differs from manual calculation that was used earlier in 2020, 2021 and RP2.
Figures for 2020 and 2021 should be as follows:
2020 number of aircraft filing via reserved or segregated airspace and CDRs: 1676883; could have planned: 1779163 (ratio 94,25%)
2021 number of aircraft filing via reserved or segregated airspace and CDRs: 1908679; could have planned: 1982855 (ratio 96,26%)

Initiatives implemented or planned to improve PI#8

LARA/PRISMIL implemented, automated reporting, that differs from manual calculation that was used earlier in 2020, 2021 and RP2.
Figures for 2020 and 2021 should be as follows:
2020 number of aircraft flying via reserved or segregated airspace and CDRs: 1512596; could have planned: 1779163 (ratio 85,02%)
2021 number of aircraft flying via reserved or segregated airspace and CDRs: 1721982; could have planned: 1982855 (ratio 86,84%)

 
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