Annual Monitoring Report 2024 - Sweden
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/2423 of 5 December 2022
List of ACCs 2
Malmo ACC
Stockholm ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 1
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 9.63311 SEK
2024: 11.4238 SEK
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2024 2.2%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2024 0.8%
Share en route / terminal costs 2024 95% / 5%
En route charging zone(s)
Sweden
Terminal charging zone(s)
Sweden
Main ANSP
• LFV
Other ANSPs
• SDATS
• ACR
• ARV - Arvidsjaur
• Swedavia
MET Providers
• SMHI
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Sweden recorded 660K actual IFR movements in 2024, +3.8% compared to 2023 (636K).
▪ Actual 2024 IFR movements were -14.6% below the plan (773K).
▪ Actual 2024 IFR movements represent 80% of the actual 2019 level (823K).
▪ Sweden recorded 2,874K actual service units in 2024, +7.8% compared to 2023 (2,666K).
▪ Actual 2024 service units were -14.6% below the plan (3,367K).
▪ Actual 2024 service units represent 75% of the actual 2019 level (3,820K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ LFV achieved the RP3 EoSM target levels in 2021 and has maintained the levels since then.
▪ SDATS achieved the EoSM RP3 targets in 2023 and maintained the levels in 2024.
▪ ARV – Arvidsjaur and ACR implemented significant improvements for Safety Risk Management and achieved EoSM RP3 targets for all Management Objectives in 2024.
▪ Sweden recorded stable performance with respect of safety occurrences with a slight decrease in the rate of runway incursions and separation minima infringements compared to 2023.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Sweden achieved a KEA performance of 1.72% compared to its target of 1.05% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ The NSA states that KEA worsened due to traffic avoiding Russian airspace (including Kaliningrad), which is causing extended trajectories.
▪ Both KEP and SCR remained stable compared to 2023.
▪ The share of CDO flights increased from 50.21% to 52.52% in 2024.
▪ Both additional taxi out time and additional time in terminal airspace remained stable in 2024 compared to 2023.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Sweden registered 0.01 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2024, which remained 0.01 after the post-ops adjustment process, thus achieving the local target value of 0.08. Delay levels in Sweden remained unchanged year-on-year.
▪ Delays were highest in June and July, due to adverse weather conditions.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Sweden increased by 7 percentage points compared to 2023 and was higher than 2019 values.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 22% below 2019 levels in Sweden in 2024.
▪ The number of ATCOs in OPS is 145, being below the 2024 plan in Stockholm by 28 FTEs. The number of ATCOs in OPS is 137, being below the 2024 plan in Malmo by 19 FTEs.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Stockholm ACC was 29,458, showing a 2.8% decrease compared to 2023. Sector opening hours are 33.5% below 2019 levels. The yearly total of sector opening hours in Malmo ACC was 48,815, showing a 11.8% decrease compared to 2023. Sector opening hours are 15.1% below 2019 levels.
▪ Malmo ACC registered 9.57 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2024, being 5.0% below 2019 levels. Stockholm ACC registered 10.47 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2024, being 13.1% above 2019 levels.
▪ Sweden registered an average airport arrival ATFM delay of 0.07 minutes per flight in 2024, thus achieving the local target of 0.15 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2023, average arrival ATFM delays in Sweden were 78% lower in 2024, while the number of IFR arrivals increased by 1%.
▪ The main reason for delays was weather, accounting for 91% of total delays.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2024 actual unit cost of Sweden was 17.15€2017, -72% lower than the determined unit cost (61.00€2017). The terminal 2024 actual unit cost was 19.90€2017, -85% lower than the determined unit cost (131.71€2017).
▪ The en route 2024 actual service units of Sweden (2.9M) were -15% lower than the determined service units (3.4M), mainly due to shifted traffic flows caused by Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
▪ The en route 2024 actual total costs were -156M€2017 (-76%) lower than the determined. This difference is driven by negative exceptional costs for LFV. Although no exceptional costs had been planned, the actual exceptional costs were -185M€2017, which was due to a one-time effect on pension costs resulting from increased interest rates that reduced the pension debt. When excluding this item, the en route 2024 actual total costs for Sweden are +28M€2017 (+14%) higher than planned.
▪ LFV spent 20M€2017 in 2024 related to costs of investments for both en route and terminal charging zones, +11% higher than determined (18M€2017). The difference is driven by higher depreciation costs under the RTS-Swedavia program, resulting from a combination of higher total investment and depreciation period shorter than originally planned.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2024 was 10.25€ (-82% lower than the 2024 DUC), while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users in 2024 was 18.30€ (-86% lower than the 2024 DUC). The difference between the AUCU and the DUC is mostly resulting from the cost risk sharing adjustment for both en route and terminal charging zones.
▪ Sweden should take additional measures to manage the cost-risk associated with pensions for RP4 in view of wide fluctuations in actual pension costs observed during RP3.