Annual Monitoring Report 2024 - 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
2024: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2024 0.9%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2024 1.0%
Share en route / terminal costs 2024 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 601K actual IFR movements in 2024, +13.4% compared to 2023 (530K).
▪ Actual 2024 IFR movements were +23.7% above the plan (486K).
▪ Actual 2024 IFR movements are +6.9% above the actual 2019 level (562K).
▪ Slovakia recorded 1,235K actual service units in 2024, +14.0% compared to 2023 (1,083K).
▪ Actual 2024 service units were +12.9% above the plan (1,094K).
▪ Actual 2024 service units represent 96% of the actual 2019 level (1,292K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ LPS achieved the RP3 targets for all Management Objectives in 2023 and maintained the level in 2024.
▪ Slovakia recorded higher rates of both runway incursions and separation minima infringements in 2024 compared with 2023, continuing the upwards trends.
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 the most significant impact on KEA from the shift in trajectories due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
▪ Both KEP and SCR improved compared to 2023. Despite the KEA target being missed, KEA improved in 2024. Additionally, the improvement in SCR shows that Slovakia has enhanced 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 0.13 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2024, which has been adjusted to 0.11 during the post-ops adjustment process, thus not achieving the local target value of 0.07. Delays in Slovakia increased by 0.08 minutes per flight year-on-year.
▪ The majority of delays were generated between June and August, mostly driven by ATC Capacity issues and adverse weather conditions.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Slovakia increased by 14 percentage points compared to 2023 and was higher than 2019 values.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 7% above 2019 levels in Slovakia in 2024.
▪ The number of ATCOs in OPS is 68, being over the 2024 plan in Bratislava by 5 FTEs.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Bratislava ACC was 26,594, showing a 8.3% increase compared to 2023. Sector opening hours are 8.3% above 2019 levels.
▪ Bratislava ACC registered 22.02 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2024, being 1.1% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2024 actual unit cost of Slovakia was 47.67€2017, -8.1% lower than the determined unit cost (51.88€2017). Slovakia does not have a terminal charging zone.
▪ The en route 2024 actual service units of Slovakia (1.2M) were +13% higher than the determined service units (1.1M).
▪ The en route 2024 actual total costs were +2.1M€2017, (+3.7%) higher than determined. This difference is mainly driven by higher staff costs and depreciation costs. The staff costs for LPS SR were +1.5M€2017, (+4.3%) higher than the determined costs mainly due to inflation adjustments negotiated with the unions, as well as staff recruitment.
▪ LPS SR costs of investments were 9.7M€2017 in 2024, +21% higher than determined (8.0M€2017). The NSA stated that this is due to higher depreciation, as determined depreciation costs were lowered to account for unrealised investments in RP2. In addition, cost of capital increase is due to higher values of the asset base and the interest rate of loan.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2024 was 62.56€ (+7.8% higher than the 2024 DUC). The difference between the AUCU and the DUC is driven by the positive inflation adjustment.
▪ Slovakia’s RP3 performance plan included justifications for a deviation to achieve the RP3 capacity targets. The main measures included recruiting of new ATCOs. Slovakia has not submit-ted a detailed report of the capacity-related measures implemented. However, the number of ATCOs in operation at the end of RP3 is below the plan. Slovakia should reimburse to airspace users the excess funds received by ANSPs for measures not implemented.