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Supporting
European
Aviation
NMOC Planning
Giovanni Lenti
28 April 2021
S21 ACI-AOT 2
NMOC staffing
• No major Covid issues affecting NMOC at this stage
• Prevention measures remain in place.
• 8 NMOC staff retired by end of 2021
• Summer roster operational notice published
• NMOC summer staff adequate to workload
• NMOC FM staff trained with high workload in new simulator room
• NMOC support at its best, fully aware of the potential issues associated
with traffic rebound
• Whatever traffic load in the Network …. NMOC combat ready.
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The risks for ATFM delays during the recovery - 1
• Traffic growth/decrease is unavoidably connected to
ATFM delays.
• It comes ‘natural’ to think that summer traffic levels
(55 to 75% of 2019?) could get rid of all ATFM delays,
assuming that en-route and airport capacity will be the
same as in 2019.
• Reality may be different in the European Network.
• With 35% of traffic vs 2019, we still have daily delays.
• So… We prepare for the ‘best’ case scenario
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The risks for ATFM delays during the recovery - 2
• ATCOs staffing issues due:
• Covid preventive measures still in force
• general availability (early retirements or planned reduction)
• En-route capacity reduction as traffic rebound becomes consistent, due to ATCO
confidence vs high traffic loads since 12 months
• Weather events may lead to further temporary capacity reductions
• Industrial actions (hopefully not!)
• Technical incidents: airspace/airport temporary unavailability/capacity reduction
• Airports Covid constraints
• Getting used to RAD suspension
NOTE: no strategic en-route offload plan in place for S2021
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The NM Entertainment presents
The Flight Efficiency Task Force
(the Wrongbusters)
25th Jan to 19th Apr 2021 (~12 weeks) results:
815 rerouting options were identified and sent to AOs (savings estimated by GRRT)
22,401 NM = 27 NM per option
202,449 kg fuel = 248 kg per option
15,742 route charges cost =19 EUR per option
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The cost of 1 min of ATFM delay for Airlines is 100 Euro, so it is paramount to support Airlines’
daily rotations more than ever, allowing flights to depart with very little or no delay.
For the second consecutive year, the NM has launched the ATFM delay close to zero
Objectively it is an impossible task , but we can get quite close to it.
• No strategic delay mitigation safety net, all ATFM delay mitigation left to Pretact/Tact
• NMOC delay mitigation CDM toolset (STAM, MCP, ACP, RR/FL , RRP, sector management)
• NMOC ability to save ATFM delay (2.5 to 3.5M min saved/year) – respect our targets
• 10% ATFM delay saving en-route, 5% airport arrival
• Ability to treat/complete each e-HelpDesk request within 3 min
• Option critical flights
• Cross border Weather procedure, SMART WX for Airports, D-1 flexible RAD trial
• Airport function in NMOC from 1st July
• Technical changes expediting/enhancing coordination with ANSPs (B2B + regs via NOP)
• FPL planning tactical support IFPS.
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NM Airport Function Summer 21
• The ‘Airport Function’ position will be active within
NMOC from 1st July – 30th Oct (0300-1900UTC)
• At D-1, coordination with ‘hotspot’ airports / AO’s to
minimise the need for regulations
• Situational awareness at airport level throughout the
day, allowing NMOC to focus attention to airport issues
(curfew, slot coordination/FLS, ATFM
measures/mitigation, WX, unplanned events).
Contact us in reference to any airport issues,
• Providing Airports (APOC/Airport Ops Managers…) especially if you have a late request for an airport
with single point of contact. with high arrival delays as we can help advise on
the situation.
All communications from NM Airport Function use centralised email: NM.Airports@eurocontrol.int
Phone +32-2-7291190 during opening times 0300-1900 UTC
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Summer WX cross border 3rd May – 30th Sept
• Situational awareness across the network both D-1
& D-0, including staff planning to reduce the risk of
unnecessary regulations during COVID-19 recovery;
• Increasing the lead time of application of necessary
tactical weather regulations and where possible
reducing the number of weather regulations applied.
• Geographical area covered by 13 ANSP: ANS CR,
Austrocontrol, Crococontrol, DFS, DSNA, ENAIRE, ENAV, Hungarocontrol,
LPS SR, MUAC, NATS, Skyguide and Slovenia Control.
• The official meteorological service providers of each
of the ANSPs involved will be providing the forecasts
under the coordination of EUMETNET.
• CDM processes and operational procedure in place
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Extension of current Cross-border procedure to Aerodromes
trial S21 - Proposal
• Proposed participating airports the airports in the Area of Responsibility of
the ANSPs in the current Cross border procedure.
a. EGLL
b. LEMD or LEBL
c. EDDF
d. LOWW
e. LSZH and
f. EHAM (although LVNL is not a participant in the Cross-border).
• Start: 31 May. The Cross Border Operational Instruction will be amended to
include airports.
Summer ‘21 webinar 28.04.2021 10The critical flight option
ATFM delays are not expected high in S2021, but Network situation may deteriorate the day of operations due
weather, staffing or other unexpected events triggering high ATFM delays. In case you receive a bad CTOT, you have
the chance to declare your flight as critical in the E-helpdesk application (B2B and B2C).
The reason to flag a flight as critical is left to Airspace Users.
By flagging a flight as critical, the following actions will be applicable:
• The call-sign of the flight will be highlighted in the E-HelpDesk queue with magenta colour
• The concerned request will be exempted from E-HelpDesk manual user rules (e.g. Local Average Delay rule)
• The concerned request will still be subject to all E-HelpDesk system rules (e.g. SIT1 rule)
• Each Airspace User is allowed to mark as critical up to 5% of its regulated flights
• The overall number of critical flights per Airspace User is limited to max 20 flights/day.
• The critical flag function can only be attached to a request for Slot improvement.
• Once the flight is marked as critical, it cannot be modified during the same day.
NMOC staff will exploit all means to reduce the ATFM delay of the critical flight, in coordination with
relevant ANSP/Airport responsible for the ATFM measure, but we cannot grant that each request will
be satisfied, as some situations do not allow improvements.
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Summer ‘21 webinar 28.04.2021What we ask Pilots
Do Don’t
• Fly what you File! Maintain FPL
route/vertical profile unless a
deviation is dictated by WX • Do not ask for direct routes to ATC,
phenomena, by ATC or by technical as entry times in sectors and arrival
reason. times at airport are jeopardized:
time volatility causes loss of
• Ask TWR start up in line with EOBT, predictability!
Taxi-time and CTOT (should you
receive it). • Do not call NMOC e-Helpdesk from
cockpit, ask your OCC to do it (unless
• Respect the ETA/CTA/target time at you are at same time dispatcher,
destination airport and sector entry handling, pilot…).
times (Target Times in SAM, SRM
messages)
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Summer ‘21 webinar 28.04.2021What we ask Airports
Do
• A-CDM airports: Operate within agreed data updates and procedures and keep the A-CDM tool up to date at
all times.
A-CDM
TOOL
• Keep your plans updated in Airport Corner ref changes to planned/unplanned events at D-1 and day of
operations. The Airport Corner proves that it is useful to have the info from airports especially when capacity
is impacted.
• Inform the NM Airport Unit (prior the day of operations) or NMOC Airport Position (day of operations) of
any possible expected event/issue that might have an impact on airport capacity and trigger ATFM delay.
Inform NMOC or
Airport Unit
Any event/issue impact on airport
NM
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Summer ‘21 webinar 28.04.2021Giovanni LENTI
giovanni.lenti@eurocontrol.int
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