Skyguide to adjust route charges for 2011
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Geneva, 14 December 2010. Skyguide is to raise the unit rate for its route
charges by 4.9% with effect from 1 January 2011. The increase has been prompted
by a decline in en-route air traffic volumes, which is itself a product of the
recent economic crisis. The approach charges will remain unchanged. Despite
suffering sizeable revenue declines, Switzerland's air navigation service
provider has kept its charges stable over the past few years. But skyguide will
only be partially able to offset the revenue shortfall expected for 2011 through
further cost economies.
Charge increase unavoidable
Skyguide finances its activities almost solely through the charges it levies for
the services it provides. Under current provisions, the company is required to
offset any losses it incurs by raising such charges. Any profits achieved are
passed back to customers in the form of charge reductions. The CHF 20 million
revenue shortfall skyguide expects for 2011 cannot be fully offset by further
cost savings, as has been done in previous years. A third of this loss will be
recouped by raising route charges by 4.9%; the remaining two thirds will be
borne by the company. ATC charges account for around 5-7% of an airline's total
operating costs.
No end in sight to en-route traffic declines
The financial and economic crisis at the end of 2008 prompted a substantial
decline in air traffic volumes that is still being felt. Traffic levels have
only slightly recovered to date; and skyguide's en-route traffic volumes have
been further depressed in 2010 as a result of the volcanic ash cloud and various
strikes outside Switzerland.
In past years, skyguide has kept its charges stable despite these revenue
declines, to the benefit of the Swiss aviation sector. The company responded
promptly to the changed economic environment by making various cost economies;
and for 2009 and 2010, skyguide was able to offset the total crisis-related
short-term revenue decline of some CHF 30 million thanks to a rigorous cost
savings programme. Now, however, the company is compelled to raise its route
charges, in order to safeguard its capacity to provide quality air traffic
services in the longer term. Because the approach and departure sector is less
affected by the crisis, the company's approach charges will remain unchanged for
the present and are likely to be reduced in the course of the coming year.
No connection with structural underfunding or euro exchange rates
Skyguide's increase in route charges for 2011 is not connected in any way to the
structural underfunding which the company has been suffering for several years
in its delegated-airspace and regional aerodrome activities, but is the
consequence of the revenue shortfall linked to the crisis. The route charge
increase is also not connected with the steep recent decline of the euro to
which skyguide has been increasingly subjected over the past two years.
skyguide
swiss air navigation services ltd.
media relations
CH-1215 Geneva 15
Contact:
phone: +41 22 417 4008
email: presse(at)skyguide.ch
internet: www.skyguide.ch
Skyguide is responsible for providing air navigation services within Swiss
airspace and in the airspace of certain adjoining regions in neighbouring
countries. The company guides the civil and military aircraft entrusted to its
care - around 3 150 flights a day or 1.15 million a year - through some of the
busiest and most complex airspace in Europe. Skyguide is a non-profit limited
company which has its head office in Geneva. The majority of its shares are held
by the Swiss Confederation. The company generated annual operating revenue of
over CHF 362 million for 2009, and employs some 1 400 people at 14 locations in
Switzerland. Skyguide is also a member, together with its sister organisations
in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, of the FABEC
initiative to create a common functional airspace block that will bring greater
efficiency to Central Europe's air traffic management services and activities.
The media release can be downloaded from the following link:
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Media release (PDF):
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