November 2019

EUROCONTROL

Monthly Network Operations Report

Overview November 2019

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1. SUMMARY

Traffic in November 2019 decreased by 1.9% compared to November 2018 and was below the low forecast published in October 2019. The decrease reflected a deteriorating economic situation, trade tensions, political unrest along with the aftermath of the recent airline failures, namely Thomas Cook. Additionally, a two-day industrial action at Lufthansa (8-9 November) accelerated the decline in Germany’s local traffic which was down 7% (-382 flights/day) in November.

Only two states added more than 50 flights daily to the network with Turkey and Poland as the top contributors.

En-route ATFM delays (8,475 min/day) decreased by 36.3% and airport ATFM delays (9,488 min/day) decreased by 39.1% compared to November 2018. There were, on average, 160 daily flights with an en-route ATFM delay of at least 15 minutes (-46.8% compared to November 2018).

Highlights include: Tenerife North connected to the network as Advanced ATC Tower airports on 21 November.

En-route: • ATC capacity issues in Karlsruhe, Barcelona, Lisbon and Madrid ACCs; • Staffing shortage in Karlsruhe, Nicosia and Marseille ACCs; • Italian ATC industrial action on 25 November.

Airport: • Low visibility impacted operations strongly at London/Heathrow and Amsterdam/Schiphol airports.

The average en-route ATFM delay per flight in the NM areai in November was 0.32 min/flt, which is above the corresponding monthly guidelineii value of 0.17 min/flt. The average YTD en-route ATFM delay per flight in 2019 in the NM areai is 1.60 min/flt which is three times the corresponding guideline of 0.52 min.

2. TOTAL TRAFFIC

Monthly traffic trend Average daily traffic for last 5 Years 6.0% 5.2% 38000 5.0% 4.2% 36000 4.0% 34000 3.6% 3.0% 3.0% 3.0% 32000 2.0% 1.5% 1.4% 1.4% 30000 1.1% 0.9% 1.0% 0.5% 0.5% 1.2% 28000 0.0% 26000 -1.0% -0.3% 24000 -2.0% 22000 -3.0% -1.9% 20000 JUL SEP FEB JAN JUN DEC APR OCT JUL AUG MAY NOV SEP FEB JAN MAR JUN DEC APR OCT AUG MAY NOV NOV MAR 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Comparison to same month last year Rolling 12 month trend Traffic decreased by 1.9% in November 2019iii. Average daily traffic in November 2019 was 26,796.

3. ATFM DELAYS

Monthly delay (min) per flight Reasons for ATFM delays in November 2019 Last 12 months = 2.0 minutes ENROUTE EVENTS 0 5.0 AIRPORT EVENTS 10 AIRPORT DISRUPTIONS 70 4.0 ENROUTE DISRUPTIONS 82 AIRPORT STAFFING (ATC) 223 3.0 ENROUTE WEATHER 274 AIRPORT DISRUPTIONS (ATC) 315 2.0 ENROUTE CAPACITY 458 AIRPORT CAPACITY (ATC) 519 1.0 ENROUTE DISRUPTIONS (ATC) 772 AIRPORT CAPACITY 2336 1.1 1.4 0.8 1.0 1.6 1.5 2.4 3.6 4.0 3.4 2.5 1.6 0.7 ENROUTE STAFFING (ATC) 0.0 2534 ENROUTE CAPACITY (ATC) 4354

JUL AIRPORT WEATHER SEP 6015 FEB JAN JUN DEC APR OCT AUG MAY NOV NOV MAR 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000

Average ATFM delay per flight decreased from 1.6 min/flt in Airport weather (33.5%), en-route ATC capacity (24.2%), en- October 2019 to 0.7 min/flt in November 2019. route ATC staffing (14.1%) and airport capacity (13.0%) were the main causes of ATFM delays in November 2019.

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Top 20 delay locations (min) in November 2019 YTD Situation 50% AIRPORT WEATHER 40% AIRPORT EVENTS AIRPORT DISRUPTIONS AIRPORT CAPACITY 30% AIRPORT DISRUPTIONS (ATC) AIRPORT STAFFING (ATC) 20% 2324 AIRPORT CAPACITY (ATC) total ATFM delay 1517 1452 ENROUTE WEATHER % 10% 873 848 773 695 668 598 518 516 395 351 340 318 279 273 254 219 207 ENROUTE EVENTS ENROUTE DISRUPTIONS 0% ENROUTE CAPACITY ENROUTE DISRUPTIONS (ATC) ENROUTE STAFFING (ATC) PORTO LISBOA ZURICH VIENNA ENROUTE CAPACITY (ATC) YEAR-TO-DATE PARIS ORLY PARIS LISBOA ACC LISBOA NICOSIA ACC LANGEN ACC LANGEN MADRID ACC MADRID BREMEN ACC BREMEN LONDON/CITY MARSEILLE ACC MARSEILLE KARLSRUHE UAC BARCELONA ACC LONDON/LUTON FRANKFURT MAIN MADRID/BARAJAS OSLO/GARDERMOEN LONDON/HEATHROW AMSTERDAM/SCHIPHOL 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.

• ATC capacity issues in Karlsruhe, Barcelona, Lisbon and Madrid ACCs; • Staffing shortage in Karlsruhe, Nicosia and Marseille ACCs; • Low visibility impacted operations strongly at London/Heathrow and Amsterdam/Schiphol airports; • Radio frequency instability in Marseille ACC on 15 November.

4. EN-ROUTE ATFM DELAY MONITORING

Monthly en-route delay per flight monitoring Top 10 en-route delay per flight in November 2019 YTD Situation 3.5 2.0 3.0 1.5 2.5 1.0 2.0 0.65 0.55 0.52 1.5 0.41 0.35 0.5 0.32 0.24 0.18 0.14 1.0 0.10 route delays per per flight delays route 0.0 En - 0.5 0.50 (min) per flight delays route -

0.0 En JUL SEP FEB JAN JUN DEC APR OCT AUG MAY NOV MAR LISBOA ACC LISBOA NICOSIA ACC LANGEN ACC MADRID ACC MONTHLY GUIDELINE DLY/FLT MONTHLY ENROUTE DLY/FLT BREMEN ACC CANARIAS ACC CANARIAS MARSEILLE ACC MARSEILLE TMA MARSEILLE KARLSRUHE UAC YTD GUIDELINE DLY/FLT YTD ENROUTE DLT/FLT ACC BARCELONA

Reporting month: The average en-route ATFM delay per flight ATC staffing issues in Nicosia, Lisbon, Karlsruhe, in the NM areai in November was 0.32 min/flt, which is above Marseille, Bremen and Langen; ATC capacity issues in the corresponding monthly guidelineii value of 0.17 min/flt. Nicosia, Lisbon, Karlsruhe, Barcelona, Bremen, Madrid Year To Date: The average YTD en-route ATFM delay per and Canarias; ATC Disruptions delays in Marseille ACC flight in 2019 in the NM areai is 1.60 min/flt which is three times and Marseille TMA. the corresponding guideline of 0.52 min/flt.

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Year-to-date average daily en-route delays

ENROUTE WEATHER 15717 11925 ENROUTE EVENTS 925 340 ENROUTE DISRUPTIONS 1376 320 ENROUTE CAPACITY 1774 1175 ENROUTE DISRUPTIONS (ATC) 4461 2406 ENROUTE STAFFING (ATC) 13232 13054 ENROUTE CAPACITY (ATC) 22002 24346

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En-route ATC staffing is above its last year’s level. The main contributors are: En-route weather (-24.3%) in Vienna, Marseille, Karlsruhe, Budapest and Zagreb ACCs; En-route events (-65.1%) in Bordeaux and Bucuresti ACCs; En-route disruptions (-76.6%) in Madrid ACC; En-route capacity (-32.3%) in Karlsruhe, Nicosia, Bremen, Langen and London ACCs; En-route ATC disruptions (-44.8%) in Marseille, Brest, Bordeaux, Brussels and Langen ACCs; En-route ATC staffing (-2.9%) in Marseille, Karlsruhe, Vienne, Brussels and Reims ACCs; En-route ATC capacity (+9.4%) in Karlsruhe, Budapest, Vienna, Barcelona, Bremen, Zagreb and Langen ACCs.

NOTICE

Traffic and Delay Comparisons All traffic and delay comparisons are between report month and equivalent month of previous year, 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 https://www.eurocontrol.int/network-performance

Regulation Reason Groupings See Analysis for more information on colour coding. For further information on the NM Area and the regulation reason groupings, go to the Reporting Assumptions and Descriptions document available on the EUROCONTROL website at https://www.eurocontrol.int/network-performance

ATFM Statistics dashboard More detailed information available via the new ATFM Statistics dashboard

Operational Performance Unit, Network Management Directorate (NMD), EUROCONTROL, 96 Rue de la Fusée, B - 1130 Brussels mailto:[email protected] https://www.eurocontrol.int/network-performance

i See Notice on page 4 for more information on NM Area. ii NM’s calculation that provides the guideline en-route delay (min) requirements to achieve the annual target (0.5 min/flight). iii See notice on page 4 for more information on traffic and delays comparisons.

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