NM Monthly Network Operations Report - Analysis – January 2019 TLP: WHITE Page 1
Monthly Network Operations Report Analysis – January 2019
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TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 NOTICE 2
TOTAL TRAFFIC 3 ATFM DELAY AND ATTRIBUTIONS 6 EN-ROUTE ATFM DELAYS 7
En-Route ATFM Delay per Location 7 En-Route ATFM Delay per Delay Group 8 En-Route ATFM Delay per Flight 9 En-Route ATFM Delay Year-To-Date 10
AIRPORT/TMA ATFM DELAYS 11 Airport/TMA ATFM Delay per Location 11 Airport/TMA ATFM Delay per Delay Groups 11 Airport/TMA ATFM Delay per Flight 12 Airport/TMA ATFM Delay Year-To-Date 12
DAILY EVOLUTION 12 ALL AIR TRANSPORT DELAYS (SOURCE: CODA) 13 ATFM SLOT ADHERENCE 14 SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AND ISSUES 14
Planned Events 14 ACC 14 Airports 15
Disruptions 15 NM ADDED VALUE 16
NOTICE Traffic and Delay Comparisons All traffic and delay comparisons are between report month and equivalent month of previous year, unless otherwise stated. Graphics All graphs in sections 2, 3 and 4 are in average minutes of ATFM delay per day, unless otherwise stated. NM Area All figures presented in this report are for the geographical area that is within Network Manager’s responsibility (NM area). For further information on the NM Area go to the Reporting Assumptions and Descriptions document available on the EUROCONTROL website at http://www.eurocontrol.int/articles/network-operations-monitoring-and-reporting. Regulation Reason Groupings The table below shows the colour coding used in the report charts.
For further information on the regulation reason groupings, go to the Reporting Assumptions and Descriptions document available on the EUROCONTROL website at http://www.eurocontrol.int/articles/network-operations-monitoring-and-reporting. ATFM Statistics dashboard More detailed information available via the new ATFM Statistics dashboard.
EN-ROUTE CAPACITY (ATC) AIRPORT CAPACITY (ATC) EN-ROUTE STAFFING (ATC) AIRPORT STAFFING (ATC) EN-ROUTE DISRUPTIONS (ATC) AIRPORT DISRUPTIONS (ATC) EN-ROUTE CAPACITY AIRPORT CAPACITY EN-ROUTE DISRUPTIONS AIRPORT DISRUPTIONS EN-ROUTE EVENTS AIRPORT EVENTS EN-ROUTE WEATHER AIRPORT WEATHER
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TOTAL TRAFFIC
Traffic increased by 3.0% in January 2019i.
Average daily traffic in January 2019 was 25,470, the highest ever recorded for January.
The traffic increase of 3.0% for January was in line with the baseline forecast published in October 2018.
This graph shows the variation in average daily traffic for the last 12-month period relative to the previous 12-months. The average daily traffic from February 2018 to January 2019 was 3.7% higher than the average from February 2017 to January 2018.
Four States added more than 50 flights per day to the European localii traffic growth. These four states accounted for 45% of the local traffic in Europe. Germany was the top contributor and added 254 daily flights owing to its dynamic internal flow (+36 flights/day) as well as its flows to and from Spain (+41 flights/day) and Turkey (+27 flights/day) mainly. Spain (excl. Canary Islands) came next and added 234 daily flights partly due to its strong internal flow (+51 flights/day) along with its flows to and from Germany (+41 flights/day), Italy (+25 flights/day), UK (+20 flights/day), Austria (+17 flights/day) and Canary Islands (+13 flights/day). Italy was the third contributor to the network and added 121 daily flights owing to its internal flow (+29 flights/day) and to its flows to and from Spain (+24 flights/day), Germany (+15 flights/day) and UK (+15 flights/day). Austria contributed to the extent of 77 extra flights per day due to its strong international arrival/departure flow which was up 11% with main increases in its flows to and from Spain (+17 flights/day), Germany (+13 flights/day) and Italy (+9 flights/day). On the negative side, Sweden saw 32 fewer flights per day owing to its weak internal flow which decreased by 6.3%. The low-cost segment had the fastest growth and recorded an increase of 5.7% (+402 flights/day). The charter segment was up by 5% and was followed by the traditional scheduled segment which grew by 3.2% and was the main driver of growth with 442 additional flights per day. The All-Cargo and Business Aviation segments declined by 6.5% and by 3.4% respectively. The top five external partners in average daily flights on flows in both directions were the United States (823 flights, up 4.3%), the Russian Federation (729 flights, up 7.1%), the United Arab Emirates (350 flights, up 4%), Egypt (259 flights, up 23.7%) and Qatar (203 flights, up 9.2%). The airlines which added the most flights to the European network on a daily basis compared with January 2018 were Ryanair (+124 flights), easyJet UK (+80 flights), Eurowings (+49 flights), LOT (+45 flights) and Vueling (+42 flights). For more information on EUROCONTROL Statistics and Forecasts, go to http://www.eurocontrol.int/statfor/sid
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Seven of the top ten airports had positive traffic growth. Overall, the largest traffic increases in January 2019 were at Berlin/Tegel, Palma de Mallorca, Düsseldorf, Vienna and Athens airports. The largest traffic decreases were at Ankara, Toulouse/Blagnac, Paris/Orly, Geneva and Stockholm/Arlanda airports. The increase of traffic in Berlin/Tegel airport is partially due to the opening of new routes. The traffic changes in Vienna, Düsseldorf, Berlin Tegel and Palma can be partly attributed to airline failures in 2017 creating opportunity for start-up carriers and existing competitors to increase frequencies. Nine of the top ten aircraft operators flew more compared to January 2018. The operators with the highest traffic growth were Binter Canarias, European Air Transport, LOT-Polish, Olympic and Norwegian Air International airlines. The highest traffic decreases were recorded by Loganair, Aegean, Flybe, Netjets and HOP. The traffic variation of Vueling follows an increase in fleet size, following the introduction of the A320Neo to their fleet. LOT Polish Airlines also saw additional flights with 787-9’s and Embraer 190 aircraft join their fleet. Binter Canarias’ 31% increase in flights was also attributed to new aircraft deliveries.
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The Casablanca, Sevilla, Barcelona, Canarias, Lisbon and Madrid ACCs variation is due to increased traffic on the South/West axis. High growth figures in Bremen and Palma are most probably explained by the cessation of both Monarch and Air Berlin operations suppressing traffic levels which have since recovered. However, the highest relative traffic increases in January 2019 were in Skopje, Yerevan, L’viv, Palma, Ljubljana and Zagreb ACCs. Traffic increase in Ukraine is partially due to an increase in overflights. The traffic decrease in Istanbul airspace is due to Turkish ACC re-structuring.
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ATFM DELAY AND ATTRIBUTIONS
Total ATFM delays increased by 21.9% in January 2019i.
En-route ATFM delays increased by 123.7% and airport ATFM delays decreased by 14.6%.
The rolling 12-month trend shows that ATFM delay was 64.2% higher during the period February 2018 – January 2019 compared to February 2017 – January 2018.
Airport weather (34.2%), en-route ATC capacity (28.5%) and en-route ATC staffing (14.4%) and airport capacity (13.3%) were the main causes of ATFM delays in January 2019.
These are the top 20 delay generating locations for the reporting month with respect to total ATFM delays. Figures are the average daily delays in minutes for the individual locations. • High en-route capacity and staffing delays in Karlsruhe UAC; • Wintry conditions impacted operations at several airports and especially Amsterdam/Schiphol; • Airport capacity issues at Istanbul/Atatürk airport; • Radar maintenance in Lisbon ACC.
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EN-ROUTE ATFM DELAYS
EN-ROUTE ATFM DELAY PER LOCATION
These are the top 20 en-route ATFM delay generating locations for the reporting month with respect to total ATFM delays. Figures are the average daily delays in minutes for the individual locations. The top 20 en-route ATFM delay locations generated 45.8% of the monthly total (network) ATFM delay. The top 5 en-route ATFM delay locations generated 31.2% of the monthly total (network) ATFM delay. More detailed information available in the Airspace dashboard via the ATFM Statistics dashboard.
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EN-ROUTE ATFM DELAY PER DELAY GROUP
En-route ATFM delays accounted for 48.4% of all ATFM delays. Most of this delay was caused by en-route ATC capacity, en-route ATC staffing and en-route ATC disruptions as explained in detail below. The other causes were: En-route capacity; Military activities in Karlsuhe, Maastricht and Bremen ACCs; En-route weather; Strong winds impacted operations in Bremen ACC on 02 January; Turbulence in Karlsruhe UAC on 13 January; En-route disruptions; Some delays in Karlsruhe UAC due to Italian strike on 11 January.
Karlsruhe UAC generated 43.6% of these delays throughout the month.
Karlsruhe UAC was the biggest generator of ATC staffing delays.
Radar maintenance in Lisbon ACC throughout the month generated 9,939 minutes of delay.
The average daily flights with an en-route ATFM delay of at least 15 minutes increased from 87 flights/day in January 2018 to 197 flights/day in January 2019, which represents 0.8% of all traffic.
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EN-ROUTE ATFM DELAY PER FLIGHT
These are the top 20 average en-route ATFM delay per flight generating locations for the reporting month. Figures are the average en-route ATFM delay per flight in minutes for the individual locations. Canarias ACC en-route ATFM delay/flight decreased from 1.15 min/flight in December 2018 to 0.32 min/flight in January 2019, mainly due to fewer ATC capacity issues; Marseille ACC en-route ATFM delay/flight decreased from 0.61 min/flight in December 2018 to 0.12 min/flight in January 2019, mainly due to fewer ATC staffing issues; Nicosia ACC en-route ATFM delay/flight decreased from 0.49 min/flight in December 2018 to 0.27 min/flight in January 2019, mainly due to fewer ATC capacity issues.
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EN-ROUTE ATFM DELAY YEAR-TO-DATE
These are the top 20 en-route delay locations for 2019 with respect to the total ATFM delay. Figures are the average daily en-route delay in minutes for the individual locations. The top 20 en-route delay locations generated 45.8% of the total ATFM (network) delay. The top 5 en-route delay locations generated 31.2% of the total ATFM (network) delay.
These are the top 20 average en-route ATFM delay per flight generating locations in 2018. Figures are the average daily en-route delay in minutes for the individual locations.
Reporting month: The average en-route ATFM delay per flight in the NM areaiii in January was 0.36 min/flt, which is above the corresponding monthly guidelineiv value of 0.14 min/flt.
An average of 197 flights/day had an en-route ATFM delay of at least 15 minutes in 2019. The corresponding figure in 2018 was 87 flights/day. The top 3 locations for flights with 15 minutes or more en-route ATFM delay (year-to-date) are:
• Karlsruhe UAC with 82 flights/day • Reims ACC with 15 flights/day • Lisbon ACC with 15 flights/day
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AIRPORT/TMA ATFM DELAYS
AIRPORT/TMA ATFM DELAY PER LOCATION
AIRPORT/TMA ATFM DELAY PER DELAY GROUPS
Airports accounted for 51.6% of all ATFM delays in January 2019, mainly due to airport weather and capacity.
Wintry conditions at Amsterdam/Shiphol airport generated high delays, especially on 08 January with a total of 13,392 minutes of delay. The Network Manager appreciates the continued reporting of events in the pre-tactical phase by Amsterdam/Schiphol. The reporting of events like the one on 08 January helps to mitigate the negative impact of the expected adverse weather.
Capacity issues at Istanbul/Atatürk airport generated a total of 24,754 minutes of ATFM delay throughout the month.
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AIRPORT/TMA ATFM DELAY PER FLIGHT
Average airport/TMA delay per flight decreased from 0.47 min/flt in January 2018 to 0.39 min/flt in January 2019.
Catania airport had the highest delay per flight in January due to work in progress.
AIRPORT/TMA ATFM DELAY YEAR-TO-DATE
DAILY EVOLUTION
One day in January 2019 had an average ATFM delay per flight exceeding 1.5 min: 05 January: ATC capacity delays in Karlsruhe, Canarias, Reims, Lisbon and Vienna ACCs; ATC staffing issues in Karlsruhe, Reims, Prague and Maastricht ACCs; Snow affected operations at Thessaloniki, Zurich and Munich airports; ATC disruptions delay in Lisbon ACC due to radar maintenance; Airport capacity issue at Hurghada airport.
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NM Monthly Network Operations Report - Analysis – January 2019 TLP: WHITE Page 13
ALL AIR TRANSPORT DELAYS (SOURCE: CODA) This section presents the all air transport delay situation as seen from the airlines by using the data collected by Central Office for Delay Analysis (CODA) from airlines. Data coverage is 68% of the commercial flights in the ECAC region for December 2018. ATFM delays reported by airlines may be lower than the NM calculated ATFM delays due to difference in methods: ATFM delays of NM are the (flight) planned “delays”; the airlines report the “actual” experienced ATFM delay on departure. For instance, a flight with an ATFM delay may also have a handling delay absorbed within the ATFM delay. In the event of a long delay an example being during ATC industrial action a flight may keep its original schedule, however when it’s flight plan is submitted for example a day later any ATFM delay allocated may be lower or zero, in this case airline reported delay will exceed NM reported ATFM delay.
Based on airline data, the average departure delay per flight from ‘All-Causes’ was 13.47 minutes per flight, a 19% decrease in comparison to December 2017, with less weather delay impacting operations. Primary delays counted for 56% or 7.54 min/flt, with reactionary delays representing the smaller remaining share of 44% at 5.93 min/flt.
Further analysis of the past 12 months shows that the monthly average ‘All-Causes’ en-route ATFM delay reported by airlines remains high at 0.7 minutes per flight in December 2018. ATFM delays in December 2018 were mostly generated by en-route ATFM Regulations caused by ATC capacity, ATC staffing and en-route weather. The 44% share of reactionary delays in December 2018 is slightly lower than the shares observed during the last three months.
The percentage of flights delayed greater than 15 minutes from ‘All-Causes’ decreased by 3.7 percentage points to 24.4% compared to the same period last year. All-causes delays exceeding 30 minutes also decreased to 12.5% of flights. 3.1% of flights in December 2018 experienced an ATFM delay exceeding 15 minutes with 1.1% of flights having an ATFM delay exceeding 30 minutes.
For more information on CODA delays: https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/publication/files/flad-december-2018.pdf
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NM Monthly Network Operations Report - Analysis – January 2019 TLP: WHITE Page 14
ATFM SLOT ADHERENCE
The percentage of early departures for January 2019 is 4.3% of regulated flights, which is a decrease of 1.0 percentage points compared to January 2018. The percentage of late departures for January 2019 is 4.2% of regulated flights, which is a decrease of 1.0 percentage points compared to January 2018.
The chart below shows the airports that have more than 300 regulated flights during the month with their average daily number and proportion of regulated flights that departed outside of the Slot Tolerance Window (STW). Any airport above the red line is non-compliant with the threshold (20%). Those airports with a number of departures outside the slot tolerance window can reduce network predictability.
SIGNIFICANT EVENTS AND ISSUES
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MAJOR AIRSPACE OR ATM SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS Planned Events Tbilisi ACC migrated to a new ATM system on 18 January. As expected, no ATFM delays were generated during the transition period in January
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NM Monthly Network Operations Report - Analysis – January 2019 TLP: WHITE Page 15
AIRPORTS
Local Plans in January A number of airports undertook infrastructure and technical system improvement works during January. These improvements as well as some special events had at most a minor impact on local airport operations, unless otherwise stated. Special Events
• World Economic Forum at Davos from 19 to 27 January locally impacted operations at Geneva airport.
Completed • Runway maintenance/closure at Athens airport; • ILS maintenance at Ibiza airport.
Ongoing • Runway maintenance/closure at Larnaca, Malaga and Sabiha/Gokcen airports; • Taxiway and/or apron improvements at Catania (9,975 minutes of ATFM delay), Ibiza, Katowice, Manchester, Malta, Munich,
Nice, Olsztyn/Mazury, Porto, Paris/Orly (4,157 minutes of ATFM delay), Paris/Charles de Gaulle, Rome/Fiumicino, Tenerife/Sur and Venice airports;
• ILS maintenance at Milano/Malpensa and Nice airports ; • Terminal building improvements/works at Budapest, Frankfurt/Main, Manchester, Oslo/Gardermoen and Paris/Charles de
Gaulle airports.
DISRUPTIONS Technical • Radar maintenance in Lisbon ACC throughout the month generated 9,939 minutes of ATFM delay.
Industrial Action • Industrial action by security personnel at Berlin/Tegel airport on 07 January generated 3,059 minutes of ATFM delay; • Industrial action by security personnel at Düsseldorf airport 09 and 10 January with approximately 268 flights not operating
to/from the airport as a result; • Italian ATC industrial action on 11 January generated 5,290 minutes of en-route ATFM delay and 1,299 minutes of airport
ATFM delay. NM estimates there were 265 flights which did not operate. • Industrial action by security personnel on 15 January at 8 German airports: Frankfurt-Main, Hamburg, Bremen, Hannover,
Erfurt, Leipzig-Halle, Dresden and Munich. Approximately 800 expected movements did not take place. Operations were most disturbed at Frankfurt where only 603 movements were recorded compared to 1,223 the previous Tuesday and at Hamburg, (187 compared to 360).
NM Monthly Network Operations Report - Analysis – January 2019 TLP: WHITE Page 16
NM ADDED VALUE FLIGHTS WITH DELAY > 30’ The number of flights with more than 30 minutes of ATFM delay increased by 6.4% between January 2018 and January 2019. In January 2019, 33.8% of flights with more than 30 minutes of ATFM delay were en-route and 66.2% were airport. An average 29 flights per day had their delay reduced to less than 30 minutes by NM.
RRP DIRECT DELAY SAVINGS On average 4 RRPs/day were executed saving 321 min/day, accounting for 1.7% of ATFM delays. This graph shows the actual daily averages for the previous 13 months’ periodv.
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i See Notice on page 2 for more information on traffic and delay comparison. ii Internals, international arrivals and departures, excluding overflights. iii See Notice on page 2 for more information on NM Area . iv NM’s calculation that provides the guideline en-route delay (min) requirements to achieve the annual target (0.5 min/flight). v NM has revised the delay saving method. Where flights are subject to scenarios, delay savings from RRPs are considered when the RRP is sent 3 hours (or less) in advance of the EOBT.
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