ANNUAL REPORT 2017 ANS Finland 2017 1 ANS Finland in brief 2. ANS Finland 4. Mission, vision and values 5. Key indicators of the company 5. Establishment of ANS Finland Year 2017 6. Year 2017 in numbers 7. Future outlook CONTeNTS 8. CEO’s review 10. Key events 11. Changes at the airports of the network Operating environment 12. Operating environment We manage 16. Strengthening internationalisation Services and units 20. Finland’s air traffic control centre and Helsinki air traffic control The AIr ANd Space 24. The network’s ATS services and operational production control 28. Technical air navigation FOR YOU 32. Avia College Corporate services 36. Corporate services and reorganisation of operations Air Navigation Services Finland Oy (ANS Finland) is responsible Personnel 38. Personnel for managing the use of Finnish airspace as well as providing flight Administration 40. Board of Directors route and air navigation services at Finavia’s airports and 43. Organisation Lappeenranta Airport in Finland. In addition, the company has special 44. Operational management team tasks relating to air rescue, airspace management and area control. Corporate responsibility 46. Responsibility for the entire Finnish airspace 48. Safety ANS Finland is a state-owned company operating under the 51. Data security and data protection ownership steering of the Ministry of Transport and Communications. 52. Financial responsibility 54. Responsibility for stakeholders 56. Responsibility for the environment Board of Directors’ report and financial statements 58. Board of Directors’ report and financial statements Contact details 73. Contact details 2 ANS Finland 2017 ANS Finland 2017 3 KEY INDICATORS MISSION of the compAny revenue (eUr million) 63.9 We manage the air and space for you Operating profit (eUr million) 9.3 Operating profit/revenue (%) 14.5 VISION Capital expenditure (eUr million)* 4.0 return on equity (%)** 45.1 • We are the most competitive provider of air navigation services in Finland equity ratio (%)** 40.8 and the most preferred partner in Europe personnel on average (FTe) 402 k • We have the world’s most environmentally-friendly airspace istoc © Financial year 1 April–31 december 2017 OUR vaLUES eSTABLISHmenT OF AnS FInLAnD In december 2016, the Ministerial competitive tendering to Finavia as an airport The development is part of the govern- • Safety is the starting point of everything we do Finance Committee of the govern- operator. ment’s strategy aiming to incorporate, at the ment seconded the Ministry of Trans- From ANS Finland’s point of view, the beginning of 2019, all traffic control functions port and Communications’ proposal for prepar- incorporation provides better opportunities for into a state-owned limited company. The incor- • We fulfil our customer promise ing the incorporation of air navigation opera- preparing for the international trend in which poration comprises railway, maritime and road tions into a separate company independent of airport operators tender out the provision of air traffic as well as air navigation functions. ANS • Skilled employees are our strength Finavia. A request for preparing a new company, navigation services across national boundaries. Finland would be one of the subsidiaries of the so that it will be operational as of 1 April 2017, As a separate company, ANS Finland is better special assignment company. was made at the beginning of January. equipped to bring a share of the growing Nordic The purpose of establishing the traffic control • A functioning society and healthy environment are important to us There were several grounds for incorporat- air navigation services market to Finland. company is to create better opportunities for ing the air navigation operations: regulation The new company’s objective is to remain new digitalisation projects, provide companies relating to the international Single european profitable while improving its services, increas- with opportunities to productise new services → We are reliable and punctual Sky integration, operational transparency, more ing the efficiency of operations, operating in and increase the possibilities of refining open efficient realisation of development activities close international cooperation and developing data. through a separate company and enabling new business models and innovations. 4 ANS Finland 2017 ANS Finland 2017 5 YEAR 2017 IN NUMBERS revenue (eUr million) Operating profit/revenue (%) 63.9 14.5 flights processed 244,832 by area air traffic control flights processed minutes of delays per day attributable to 671 on average 0 ANS Finland FUTURE OUTLOOK employees The number of overflights increased by 16.7 % Strong growth in air traffic is likely to involve uncertainties. The risk of military conflicts The financial result expectations of ANS at the end continue in 2018. Traffic at helsinki Air- between different countries has increased in the Finland for 2018 also seems to be quite strong. of the year The traffic volume of helsinki Airport increased by 6.4 % port will increase in particular, but we Middle east. Any conflicts can influence air traffic Increased traffic volume combined with strict cost 456 are still expecting a good year in en-route service. flows so that some of the flights between the control facilitate profit-making ability. Overflights in Finland’s airspace have also de- Middle east and North America will adopt more veloped favourably in recent years, but they also southern routes across Central europe. 6 ANSANS Finland 2017 ANS Finland 2017 7 1 April 2017 was a milestone in the day. Finland is open 24/7, and ANS Finland is that goal, we have to build a dynamic airspace development of Finnish air navigation an important link in this. Our ability to react to without obstacles to flight planning together CeO’S REVIeW services – it saw the establishment incidents is good. with our customers while supporting the needs RAine LuojuS of Air Navigation Services Finland Oy. All of The qualitative objective of the company is of the Finnish defence Forces. We also operate Finavia’s air navigation personnel, air navigation to ensure the functioning of the air navigation as environmentally efficiently as possible with training-related personnel at Avia College and system so that airlines can operate according to regard to the approach and take-off methods. financial administration, communications and HR their planned schedules without delays. We have Air traffic and air navigation services are gov- employees, among others, were transferred to achieved this in several years. erned by several international regulations. ANS the established company. Our objectives are supported by the new strat- Finland actively takes part in the international AnS1417 We are following a european trend in the egy confirmed in November 2017. The employees development of the industry, and we are involved incorporation, and with it, we can transition provided their own extensive insights to it. in several international organisations. Through to a genuine market situation in air navigation the cooperation, we increase our own influence. F350 services in Finland as well. The timing for the DEVELOPING We are also engaged in international coopera- incorporation was suitable because the efficiency INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS tion with estonia, for example, with the aim of of Finland’s air navigation services has been In accordance with the strategy, we want to grow creating a cooperation model that makes it pos- increased for years; practices have been ration- our business. ANS Finland will develop its current sible to provide air traffic control services across alised, head office functions trimmed down and products and sell them more actively. We are borders. the recruitment policy has been strict. investigating the improvement of cost efficiency At the end of 2017, ANS Finland had 456 through a remote air traffic control tower solu- EFFICIENT AND AGILE employees, while only few years earlier, the same tion, for example. According to the customer survey, ANS Finland’s duties were taken care of by more than 600 Technological development also provides customers are satisfied with our services and employees. Improved productivity of work can others new kinds of business opportunities. An considered their quality to be high. We will con- also be seen in the customer fees. example of this are drones, or unmanned aerial tinue to listen closely to our customers’ expecta- The demerger into a separate company was vehicles, and the services provided to them. ANS tions from us. a demanding task for the entire personnel – Finland wants to facilitate new business func- The first nine months of ANS Finland in 2017 every one of them deserves thanks for that. The tions with its activities and create platforms for have been a strong start. In terms of finances, the agreements with all of the partners and prepar- use by drone aviators. operations have developed favourably; the growth ing the hundreds of documents required by the We also market the opportunities provided by in air traffic volumes in 2017 also contributed licence process, for example, demanded lots of Finland’s airspace internationally; by utilising them, to this. however, the efficiency of operations is work. Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi) and airlines can achieve significant cost-savings while continuously improved, and we are guided by the Ministry of Transport and Communications reducing emissions into the air from aviation. the european Commission’s goals regarding the provided us with