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The Serbia and Montenegro Air Traffic Services Agency handled 764.218 flights through its airspace in 2019, representing an increase of 6.7% on 2018, Eurocontroled announced. It added, "The total Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) delay at the SMATSA was 58.316 minutes, 72.5% less than in 2018. The overall European traffic flow delay in 2019 was 24.2 million minutes, 5.7% less than in 2018". Eurocontrol pocketed 79.1 million euros for overflights on behalf of Serbia, Montenegro and the Kosovo Force (KFOR) in 2019, representing an increase of 2.8% on the year before,
That's why there are delays more and more.
ReplyDeleteSo 765k is with Kosovo or without? I didnt really get it reading the text.
ReplyDeleteWithout. KFOR controls lower airspace (until recently, there was news the other day) so the sentence regarding Kosovo refers only to the money Eurocontrol got.
DeleteWait, so the overflights increased with 6.7%, but the money increased with 2.8% ??
ReplyDeleteEurocontrol is asking from providers to lower costs by 2% each year.
DeleteexYu - why are you constantly praising only SMATSA? The fact is, that whole SE Axis (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia) see same level of increased traffic...
ReplyDeleteI don't see the information as praise. It was issued as a joint press release by SMATSA and Eurocontrol. Also, I'm not sure where you see news about SMATSA on a constant basis. The last involved a strike threat by one of its unions in December of last year.
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