Annual Monitoring Report 2024 - Romania
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/2424 of 5 December 2022
List of ACCs 1
Bucharest ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 1
<80’K 1
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 4.56629 RON
2024: 4.97195 RON
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2024 4.8%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2024 3.4%
Share en route / terminal costs 2024 91% / 9%
En route charging zone(s)
Romania
Terminal charging zone(s)
Romania
Main ANSP
• ROMATSA
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
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Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Romania recorded 820K actual IFR movements in 2024, +6.6% compared to 2023 (769K).
▪ Actual 2024 IFR movements were +11.1% above the plan (738K).
▪ Actual 2024 IFR movements are +9.8% above the actual 2019 level (747K).
▪ Romania recorded 6,369K actual service units in 2024, +7.6% compared to 2023 (5,920K).
▪ Actual 2024 service units were +9.3% above the plan (5,825K).
▪ Actual 2024 service units are +24.5% above the actual 2019 level (5,117K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ ROMATSA achieved the RP3 target maturity levels in 2021 but recorded a degrading performance between 2022 and 2023 falling below the target levels. The measures implemented enabled ROMATSA to recover and achieve the RP3 target levels.
▪ Romania recorded stable performance with respect to safety occurrences, with no runway incursions in 2024, and the same rate of separation minima infringements compared to 2023.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Romania achieved a KEA performance of 3.77% compared to its target of 2.05% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ The NSA states that reasons for deterioration include neighbouring airspace unavailability due to conflict zones, being upstream or downstream of ATM network inefficiencies, and airspace users’ preferences.
▪ Both KEP and SCR remained stable compared to 2023.
▪ The share of CDO flights increased from 40.70% to 42.90% in 2024.
▪ Additional taxi out time increased marginally from 2.17 to 2.24 min/flight, while additional time in terminal airspace remained stable in 2024 compared to 2023.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Romania registered 0.15 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2024, which has been adjusted to 0.13 during the post-ops adjustment process, thus not achieving the local target value of 0.04. Delays in Romania decreased by 0.03 minutes per flight year-on-year.
▪ Delays in Romania were highest in June and July, due to adverse weather conditions.
▪The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Romania increased by 17 percentage points compared to 2023 and was higher than 2019 values.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 10% above 2019 levels in Romania in 2024.
▪ The number of ATCOs in OPS is 251.5, being below the 2024 plan in Bucharest by 11 FTEs.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Bucharest ACC was 69,204, showing a 0.3% decrease compared to 2023. Sector opening hours are 0.8% above 2019 levels.
▪ Bucharest ACC registered 11.73 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2024, being 9.3% above 2019 levels.
▪ Romania registered an average airport arrival ATFM delay of 0.12 minutes per flight in 2024, thus achieving the local target of 0.39 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2023, average arrival ATFM delays in Romania increased from zero to 0.12 minutes in 2024, while the number of IFR arrivals increased by 6%.
▪ The main drivers of delays were other, non-ATC related causes, accounting for 80% of delays, and weather, responsible for 20%.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2024 actual unit cost of Romania was 32.50€2017, -7.5% lower than the determined unit cost (35.13€2017). The terminal 2024 actual unit cost was 270.72€2017, +5.6% higher than the determined unit cost (256.40€2017).
▪ The en route 2024 actual service units of Romania (6.4M) were +9.3% higher than the determined service units (5.8M).
▪ The en route 2024 actual total costs were slightly higher than determined (+2.4M€2017, or +1.2%). Higher staff costs for ROMATSA (+4.8M€2017, or +3.1%) was partially compensated by lower than planned other operating costs (-3.4M€2017, or -17%). The NSA noted that staff costs are above planned due to higher pension costs, inflation, and wage compensations awarded due to higher traffic than planned and the achievement of capacity targets.
▪ ROMATSA costs of investments were 18M€2017 in 2024 for both en route and terminal charging zones, -3.9% lower than determined (19M€2017).
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2024 was 44.15€ (+5.8% higher than the 2024 DUC), while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users in 2024 was 338.04€ (+9.6% higher than the 2024 DUC). The difference between the AUCU and the DUC is mainly driven by the positive inflation adjustment for both the en route and terminal charging zones.