AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES FINLAND OY Annual Report 2019 AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES FINLAND OY / ANNUAL REPORT 2019 1 Air Navigation Services Finland Ltd (ANS Finland) Contents is responsible for managing the use of Finnish airspace as well as providing flight route and air navigation services at airports in Finland Year 2019 CEO’s review 3 Highlights 2019 5 ANS Finland provides safe, accurate and competitive air naviga- Year 2019 in numbers 7 tion services in Finland, the most environmentally friendly air- Strategy 2020–2024 8 space in the world. The aim is for air traffic to support Finland’s International co-operation 10 success in a comprehensive way. Services and units Air navigation services include Finland’s Air Traffic Control Centre • managing the use of Finnish airspace as well as providing and Helsinki Air Traffic Control 11 en-route and air navigation services at 22 Finnish airports The network’s ATS services 13 • designing and maintaining the infrastructure and systems Technical air navigation 14 required for air navigation in compliance with international Avia College 15 requirements • special tasks relating to air rescue coordination and Governance territorial surveillance Board of Directors 16 • training and consulting services Strategic management 19 Organisation 22 Air Navigation Services Finland Oy is part of the Traffic Management Finland Group. Safety and responsibility 23 Board of Directors’ report and financial statements 27 AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES FINLAND OY / ANNUAL REPORT 2019 2 CEO’S REVIEW ANS Finland guarantees the safety of Finnish air traffic In 2019, flights ANS Finland ensures that air At the beginning of 2019, the ownership During the year, the company developed traffic is safe and has no delays of the company was transferred to the new the Multi-ROT concept uniquely in Europe were not cancelled and guarantees that Finland Traffic Management Finland. After this, the together with the airport operator Finavia, due to reasons is accessible, which is strongly air navigation strategy was updated for the allowing a single air traffic controller to man- next five-year period. In its operations, air age the air navigation of several airports via attributable to air navigation. based on air traffic, 24/7/365. navigation aims at customer orientation, remote connections. Remote air traffic con- Also the safety goals were In addition, it has special tasks smoothness and efficiency. Skilled employ- trol towers aim to enhance the cost efficien- relating to air rescue coordination ees are its biggest asset. cy of air navigation services and maintain met. and territorial surveillance. ANS Finland fulfilled its service promise an adequate level of service at airports with with determination amidst the change: area low volumes as well. The concept was sub- control and network airports had no delays mitted to the Finnish Transport and Com- whatsoever during the year, and no flights munications Agency Traficom for approval in were cancelled due to reasons attributable 2019. In 2020, the company will make the to air navigation. The safety targets were final decision on both the technical system also met. In 2019, the company also renewed and airports where any operations will be the collective agreement for air traffic con- started together with Finavia. trollers and improved its cost efficiency: air Unmanned remote-controlled aerial vehi- navigation service fees will decrease by ap- cles and drones are developing and quickly proximately 12 per cent in area control and becoming more common. Therefore, it is im- Helsinki Airport in 2020. portant to find solutions to flexibly and safe- AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES FINLAND OY / ANNUAL REPORT 2019 3 ly coordinate conventional and unmanned FINEST project, unique in Europe, which is aviation. Regulations on drones are still de- implemented by ANS Finland together with veloping, and it was not found out during Estonian Air Navigation Services (EANS). 2019 how low-level (U-space) services will The FINEST programme aims to create an be provided to users, so the work will con- environment in which air navigation servic- tinue in 2020. es can be provided across national borders. An air traffic controller training pro- The service allows service providers in ei- gramme has begun at the company’s own ther country to provide services to the oth- educational institution, Avia College, each er as necessary – meaning that a pilot can be autumn. Avia College also continuously served by Estonian or Finnish air traffic con- trains foreign air traffic controllers for the in- trol in shared airspace. FINEST will increase ternational market. The aim is to also delib- the efficiency of operations and decrease erately take part in competitive bids for air emissions with the jointly managed airspace navigation services opening in Europe. The providing airlines with optimum flight routes European Union wants to harmonise the Eu- that are as short as pos-sible. The implemen- ropean airspace and increase competition tation of the project, one of ANS Finland’s in service production, and the company will spearhead projects, began in 2019. The aim aim to ensure the competitiveness of its op- is to adopt the operating model pursuant to erations in the changing market in this way, the FINEST project in three phases, the last among other means. of which will take place in 2022. The European Union is requiring its Mem- ber States to reduce the costs of air traffic. Raine Luojus One of the responses to this demand is the CEO AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES FINLAND OY / ANNUAL REPORT 2019 4 Highlights 2019 ATCC - Finland’s Air Traffic Control Centre Network airports Safety • 25 April Internal changes within the area of respon- • Regular scheduled traffic to and from Pori resumed • The changes required by the new EU legislation in the sibility of regional air traffic control centre (sector- on 09/2019 and will be provided with an air traffic Safety Management System were implemented as planned isation), updating the standard approach routes at control service • The degree of achievement of safety targets was good Helsinki Airport to support a more environmentally • Planning of the remote-operated air traffic control friendly air traffic management, change of the ATC • The refresher training of the entire company’s person- (MROT) continued with simulations in May in Ger- callsign of the regional air traffic control centre to nel on the Safety Management System was successfully many, for which a report was received in August. A Helsinki Control and the deployment of air traffic implemented concept-level proposal with safety reviews was sub- controller–pilot data connections (CPDLC). mitted to the authorities in November • The testing and practising service contingency by providing operational Area Control Centre (ACC) and Aproach Control (APP) services 24 hours at re- serve premises. • Testing and practising Helsinki Airport tower (EFHK TWR) services contingency by providing opeartion- al services at temporary tower on 18 November. • Record number of IFR flights in Finland, 276,362 on 31 December. AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES FINLAND OY / ANNUAL REPORT 2019 5 Marketing and customer relations Avia College Technical Air Navigation • The Gulf of Finland project (drone flights) and the • One air traffic controller training course (LJK) qual- • The renewal of the ILS precision approach system of associated tests, culminating in the Volocopter ified in March 2019, and the next course started in Helsinki Airport in record time Drone taxi flight at the Helsinki Airport. August 2019 • In data communications, the transition from the TDM • A seminar on route optimisation in Beijing, China in • Students from Bosnia–Herzegovina continued in the based network to the use of an TDM over IP network cooperation with Traficom and Finnair regional air traffic control training throughout the • The deployment of the TopMax phone system year, one group of students graduated in summer • Consulting with airlines on route optimisation issues 2019 • The deployment of the updates of the MSSR monopulse and thereby increasing air traffic over Finland secondary surveillance radar system at Tampere-Pirkkala • The students from the Latvian air navigation com- and Kuopio airports pany LGS (Latvijas Gaisa Satiksme) and the Swedish air navigation company ACR (Aviation Capacity Re- • The first validations of the satellite-based SBAS LPV ap- sources AB) continued their studies and graduated proach procedures in flight checking in October 2019 • Tendering the VoIP VCS system and entering into a con- • A new course of the Latvian LGS started in August tract with the winning supplier 2019 • 11 new employees recruited in the Technology unit, work begins in early 2020 AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES FINLAND OY / ANNUAL REPORT 2019 6 Year 2019 in numbers KEY FIGURES PERSONNEL (31.12.2019) DISTRIBUTION OF LOCATIONS Revenue Employees Vantaa 301 Northern Finland 43 Enontekiö 1 438 Ivalo (Inari) 1 Kajaani 4 80.2 Kemi 2 eur million Kittilä 3 Average age of employees (years) Kuusamo 3 Oulu 13 Rovaniemi 16 Operating profit 45.5 Eastern Finland 37 Joensuu 5 Jyväskylä 12 Average duration of Halli (Jämsä) 1 Kuopio (Siilinjärvi) 12 5.9 employment relationships Lappeenranta 2 eur million Savonlinna 2 Utti (Kouvola) 3 17.7 Western Finland 57 Operating profit/revenue (%) Kokkola (Kruunupyy) 4 Maarianhamina 5 Absences due to sickness rate Tampere-Pirkkala 19 Pori 6 Turku 15 Vaasa 8 7.3% 2.6 TOTAL 438 AIR NAVIGATION SERVICES FINLAND OY / ANNUAL REPORT 2019 7 Strategy 2020–2024 • Our strategic customers include Finnair, Some of the support services of the sub- • The integration of low-flying airspace into Finavia, Finnish state aviation operations sidiaries will be centralised in the Group, traditional aviation is seen as a new chal- as well as overflights. The customers of and the Group will also build new business lenge, while enabling the emergence of a ANS Finland expect the operations to stay platforms utilising ecosystem thinking. completely new business area as, for ex- safe and punctual.