January 2013 - Eurocontrol

Directorate Network Management
Monthly Network Operations Report
Overview – January 2013
SUMMARY
Traffic decreased by 4.4%, which is the lowest level for January traffic for the past five years. Total ATFM delays increased by 33%
compared to January 2012 due to a 79% increase in airport weather delays. The average ATFM delay per flight remained stable at 0.9
minutes for the third month in a row. En-route ATFM delays were slightly lower than January 2012.
Highlights of the month were:
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Adverse weather conditions at major airports; London Heathrow, Amsterdam Schiphol, Frankfurt Main and Geneva.
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ATC participation in industrial action by French public services between 30/01/2013 and 01/02/2013.
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Several system implementations and upgrades which had small to no network impact: VOLMUK cutover in Germany (Munich,
Karlsruhe ACC’s), paperless strip system training in Brest ACC, Interface Reims Paris (IRP) airspace design project in France and
COOPANS implementation in Stockholm ACC.
The annual en-route ATFM delay reference value for performance monitoring is 0.60 min/flt for 2013. January's en-route ATFM delay
per flight was 0.2 minutes and is within the NM expected level for January.
1. TOTAL TRAFFIC
Average daily traffic for last 5 Years
Monthly traffic trend
2.5%
3%
32000
2%
30000
1%
0%
28000
-0.5%
-2.8%
-1.2% -1.2%
24000
-2.0%
22000
Co mparisio n to same mo nth last year
2009
Ro lling 12 mo nth trend
Traffic decreased by 4.4% compared to January 2012. January
traffic was significantly (3.4%) below forecast, with severe
weather conditions directly or indirectly accounting for the nonoperation of approximately 1% of expected flights.
2010
2011
2012
DEC
NOV
OCT
SEP
AUG
20000
JUL
-5.6%
DEC
NOV
OCT
SEP
AUG
JUL
JUN
MAY
APR
MAR
JAN
FEB
-4.7%
-6%
JUN
-4.4%
MAY
-3.6%
APR
-3.0%
-3.1%
-5%
MAR
-2.7% -2.6%
JAN
-3%
-4%-2.6%
26000
FEB
-2%
JAN
-1%
2013
Traffic in January 2013 was the lowest for the month of January
for the last 5 years.
2. ATFM DELAYS
Monthly delay (m in) per flight
Last 12 m onths = 1.1 m inutes
1.8
Proportion of ATFM delay in January 2013
AIRPORT
WEATHER, 67.3%
1.6
1.4
1.2
1.0
AIRPORT ATC
CAPACITY, 3.8%
0.8
AIRPORT
INFRASTRUCTU
RE, 7.6%
0.6
0.9
JAN
0.9
DEC
0.9
NOV
OCT
1.1
1.1
SEP
1.2
AUG
1.7
JUL
1.4
JUN
1.1
MAY
1.5
APR
1.0
0.7
MAR
JAN
0.0
FEB
0.2
0.7
0.4
Average ATFM delay per flight remained stable at 0.9 minutes in
January 2013.
DNM Network Operations Report – Overview – January 2013
EN-ROUTE
WEATHER, 0.5%
EN-ROUTE
EVENTS, 8.0%
EN-ROUTE
DISRUPTIONS,
2.3%
EN-ROUTE ATC
CAPACITY, 9.4%
EN-ROUTE ATC
STAFFING, 1.2%
78.6% of ATFM delay was at airports, with two thirds being
weather. 21.4% of ATFM delay was en-route.
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308
303
282
266
OSLO/GARDERMOEN
WARSZAWA ACC
308
ANKARA ACC
325
NICOSIA ACC
425
KARLSRUHE UAC
427
BREST U/ACC
537
PARIS ORLY
546
LONDON/CITY
647
MADRID BARAJAS
738
MUENCHEN
766
LONDON/GATWICK
803
GENEVE COINTRIN
843
WIEN SCHWECHAT
920
PARIS ALL ACC
SCHIPHOL_AMSTERDAM
ISTANBUL-ATATURK
1060
FRANKFURT MAIN
A IRPORT A TC CA PA CITY
A IRPORT WEA THER
A IRPORT INFRA STRUCTURE
EN-ROUTE WEA THER
EN-ROUTE EV ENTS
EN-ROUTE ATC STAFFING
EN-ROUTE DISRUPTIONS
EN-ROUTE A TC CA PA CITY
1658
PARIS CH DE GAULLE
1861
ZURICH
18%
16%
14%
12%
10%
8%
6%
4%
2%
0%
LONDON/HEATHROW
Proportion of total ATFM delay
Top 20 delay locations (m in) in January 2013
YTD Situation
3349
These are the top 20 delay generating locations for the reporting month. Figures are the average daily delays in minutes. Pink
dashes (Year-To-Date - YTD) indicate their average daily ATFM delay since the beginning of the year.
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Twelve of the top 20 airports (London Heathrow, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris CDG, Vienna, Geneva, London Gatwick,
Munich, Madrid, London City, Paris Orly and Oslo Gardermoen) were strongly affected by weather throughout the month with
low visibility, fog, wind and snow issues.
The limited use of the optimum runway configurations at Zurich airport (due to environmental constraints) and Istanbul Ataturk
airport (due southerly winds) continued to cause delays. They were also affected by weather: snow, wind and low visibility.
Paris ACC’s delays were mainly caused by the change of the airspace design (IRP: Interface Reims Paris), ATC capacity
issues and the industrial action that took place in France between 30 January and 01 February.
Brest ACC generated delays due to the paperless strip system training, the French strike and ATC capacity.
Delays in Karlsruhe ACC were caused by staffing issues and by the capacity reduction due to VOLMUK implementation.
Nicosia and Warsaw ACCs recorded delays due to en-route ATC capacity and ATC staffing.
Delays in Ankara ACC were due to reduced ATC Capacity in ORBB (Baghdad) FIR (NOTAM A0178/12).
3. EN-ROUTE ATFM DELAY MONITORING
Reporting month: The average en-route delay per flight was
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0.20min/flt, which is below the monthly guideline delay of 0.29
min/flt for the month.
0.51
0.34
0.4
0.3
0.19
0.19
0.2
0.1
0.18
0.17
0.13
0.11
0.08
0.09
KARLSRUHE UAC
REIMS U/ACC
CANARIAS_ACC/FIC
LISBOA ACC/UAC
WARSZAWA ACC
BREST U/ACC
ANKARA ACC
PARIS ALL ACC
0.0
NICOSIA ACC
DEC
NOV
OCT
SEP
AUG
M ONTHLY ENROUTE DLY/FLT
YTD ENROUTE DLY/FLT
0.6
0.5
Top 10 en-route delay per flight in January 2013
YTD Situation
STOCKHOLM ACC
M ONTHLY GUIDELINE DLY/FLT
YTD GUIDELINE DLY/FLT
JUL
JUN
MAY
APR
FEB
MAR
0 .6 0
JAN
En-route delays per flight
Monthly en-route delay per flight m onitoring
1.5
1.4
1.3
1.2
1.1
1.0
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0.0
En-route delays per flight (min)
.
In January, Nicosia and Paris ACC’s had the highest en-route delay
per flight.
Year-to-date proportion of en-route ATFM delays
EN-ROUTE ATC
STAFFING, 5.6%
EN-ROUTE ATC
CAPACITY,
44.0%
EN-ROUTE
WEATHER, 2.1%
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EN-ROUTE
DISRUPTIONS,
10.9%
En-route ATFM delay in January 2013 was distributed as follows:
44% due to ATC capacity, 37.4% due to en-route events and 10.9%
due to disruptions.
EN-ROUTE
EVENTS, 37.4%
NM’s calculation that provides the guideline en-route delay (min) requirements to achieve the annual target (0.6 min/flight).
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