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<strong>FIGURES</strong> <strong>AND</strong><br />
<strong>FACTS</strong>
Figures and Facts 2011<br />
Civil and military air navigation services<br />
The closest possible collaboration between civil and<br />
military air navigation services is essential if Switzerland’s<br />
airspace is to be safely and efficiently managed. By<br />
providing integrated civil-and-military air navigation<br />
services (as it has done since 2001), skyguide meets both<br />
the Swiss Air Force’s need to remain sufficiently effective<br />
to fulfil its mission of maintaining the country’s airspace<br />
sovereignty and the civil aviation community’s economic<br />
demands. Skyguide’s integrated civil-and-military air<br />
navigation services enhance the flexibility of airspace use,<br />
to the benefit of all its users.<br />
A public service mandate<br />
Skyguide performs its services under a legal mandate<br />
issued by the Swiss Confederation and the Federal Office<br />
of Civil Aviation (FOCA), Switzerland’s national aviation<br />
authority. This mandate requires skyguide to ensure the<br />
safe, fluid and cost-effective management of air traffic<br />
in Swiss airspace and in the adjacent airspace of neighbouring<br />
countries that has been delegated to its control.<br />
Skyguide’s legally-prescribed duties and tasks entail<br />
providing civil and military air navigation services, aeronautical<br />
information and telecommunications services<br />
and the technical services required to install, operate<br />
and maintain the associated air navigation systems<br />
and facilities.<br />
Skyguide is fully committed to its public service mandate.<br />
Switzerland’s air navigation service provider is an<br />
entrepreneurially-minded and customer-focused jointstock<br />
company under Swiss private law which has its<br />
head office in Geneva and maintains further operations<br />
in Alpnach, Bern, Buochs, Dübendorf, Emmen, Grenchen,<br />
Locarno, Lugano, Meiringen, Payerne, St. Gallen-Altenrhein,<br />
Sion and Zurich.<br />
A sustainable approach<br />
As a High Reliability Organisation, skyguide strives to<br />
achieve and maintain a dynamic balance between<br />
safety, capacity, costs and sustainability in the services it<br />
provides. The last of these components – sustainability<br />
– extends to the company’s corporate responsibility in<br />
both social and environmental terms. Military mission<br />
effectiveness – in terms of the Swiss Air Force’s ability<br />
to perform its mandate to maintain the sovereignty of<br />
Swiss airspace – is a further integral part of skyguide’s<br />
overall brief. Skyguide pursues a progressive and social<br />
personnel policy that is based on reciprocal respect and on<br />
an appreciation of the individual and their position in the<br />
company. Skyguide further creates highly specialised jobs<br />
in a demanding technical field, and thereby helps develop<br />
tomorrow’s skills and expertise within the Swiss economy.<br />
Environmental care has also become a major issue<br />
throughout the aviation industry, and skyguide intends<br />
to further intensify its own contribution here.<br />
Our vision<br />
On a daily basis, we provide safe and reliable air navigation<br />
and related services. For our customers and partners, we<br />
embody continuous improvement in an innovative and<br />
entrepreneurial spirit.<br />
Our mission<br />
As a high reliability organisation, we are totally committed<br />
to safety.<br />
Together with our civil and military partners, we<br />
continuously improve our air navigation and related<br />
services.<br />
Within the European aviation network, we are a focussed<br />
innovator and act as creative co-operator. In this role, we<br />
create value-adding solutions in our core competence<br />
areas and help to implement and improve on them.<br />
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Skyguide’s airspace, locations and infrasctructures<br />
Geneva<br />
Cointrin<br />
Civil locations<br />
Military locations<br />
Airspace managed by skyguide<br />
Delegated airspace<br />
Flight Information Region (FIR) Switzerland<br />
Flight zones used primarily by civil traffic with<br />
main airways<br />
Flight zones available for military traffic according to<br />
the Air Force’s needs and reservations<br />
Payerne<br />
Grenchen<br />
Sion<br />
Bern<br />
Belp<br />
Zurich Kloten<br />
Emmen<br />
Alpnach<br />
Meiringen<br />
Dübendorf<br />
Buochs<br />
Locarno<br />
Lugano Agno<br />
St.Gallen<br />
Altenrhein<br />
Mixed flight zones used according to the priorities of civil<br />
or military traffic<br />
Cross Border Area (CBA), military flight zone used in common<br />
with France and Italy<br />
Instrument landing systems (ILS)<br />
VOR/DME beacons<br />
Non-directional beacons and marker systems<br />
Direction finder systemsie<br />
Advanced Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems<br />
(ASMGCS)<br />
Approach/departure radar systems<br />
Long-range radar systems<br />
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IFR flights<br />
Change<br />
2011 2010 10/11<br />
Total IFR flights 1 192 940 1 156 960 + 3.1%<br />
of which en-route traffic 712 830 706 165 + 0.9%<br />
Movements handled<br />
The table below shows the real sizes of skyguide’s various<br />
centres and operating locations and the corresponding<br />
development of their IFR traffic. A distinction must<br />
be made here between a “movement” and a “flight”.<br />
Generally speaking, one flight will generate multiple flight<br />
movements registered at the various area control centres<br />
along its route, and will also generate two, one or no airport<br />
movements for skyguide, depending on whether its airport<br />
of departure and/or arrival is in the airspace controlled.<br />
Area control centres<br />
Change<br />
2011 2010 10/11<br />
Geneva 656 443 629 040 + 4.4%<br />
Zurich 779 762 762 279 + 2.3%<br />
TOTAL 1 436 205 1 391 319 + 3.2%<br />
IFR landings/departures<br />
Change<br />
2011 2010 10/11<br />
Bern Belp 17 117 13 747 + 24.5%<br />
Buochs 1 803 1 421 + 26.9%<br />
Donaueschingen 1 743 1 497 + 16.4%<br />
Friedrichshafen 18 777 19 013 – 1.2%<br />
Geneva 176 009 164 470 + 7.0%<br />
Grenchen 5 451 5 381 + 1.3%<br />
Les Eplatures 1 777 1 434 + 23.9%<br />
Lugano 10 510 10 454 + 0.5%<br />
Sion 4 886 4 815 + 1.5%<br />
St. Gallen-Altenrhein 10 857 9 693 + 12.0%<br />
Zurich 268 384 256 720 + 4.5%<br />
TOTAL 517 314 488 645 + 5.9%<br />
VFR flights<br />
Change<br />
2011 2010 10/11<br />
Bern Belp 43 462 40 890 + 6.3%<br />
Buochs 10 374 8 458 + 22.7%<br />
Geneva 12 996 14 222 – 8.6%<br />
Grenchen 63 106 61 896 + 2.0%<br />
Les Eplatures 12 680 8 668 + 46.3%<br />
Lugano 14 184 11 180 + 26.9%<br />
Sion 39 042 37 192 + 5.0%<br />
St. Gallen-Altenrhein 19 032 18 072 + 5.3%<br />
Zurich 10 846 11 762 – 7.8%<br />
TOTAL<br />
L<strong>AND</strong>INGS/DEPARTURES 225 722 212 340 + 6.3%<br />
Military air traffic<br />
2011 saw a substantial year-on-year increase in military<br />
air traffic:<br />
2011 2010 Change<br />
Military aircraft<br />
movements 84 632 79 092 + 7.0%<br />
Tactical air force missions<br />
Skyguide managed 364 live/hot missions and<br />
2 229 tactical missions for the Swiss Air Force in the<br />
course of the year. Total missions were around 5% down<br />
on prior-year levels, while the number of major exercises<br />
handled declined by 18%.<br />
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Punctuality statistics<br />
Skyguide handled 96.9% of its daily flight volumes without delays in 2011.<br />
The average number of flights affected by delays stood at 103 per day, a<br />
25.4 % improvement on 2010.<br />
Average ATFM delay per flight – airport / en-route<br />
(skyguide airspace) Source: OPAL data warehouse - CFMU data<br />
Delay (in minutes)<br />
4.0<br />
3.5<br />
3.0<br />
2.5<br />
2.0<br />
1.5<br />
1.0<br />
0.5<br />
0.0<br />
Total<br />
En-route<br />
Airport<br />
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011<br />
3.93<br />
3.50<br />
0.43<br />
2.91<br />
2.59<br />
0.32<br />
1.37<br />
1.12<br />
0.25<br />
1.40<br />
0.89<br />
0.51<br />
1.35<br />
0.70<br />
0.65<br />
1.35<br />
0.84<br />
0.51<br />
1.42<br />
1.13<br />
0.29<br />
1.64<br />
1.12<br />
0.52<br />
1.10<br />
0.76<br />
0.34<br />
0.74<br />
0.51<br />
0.23<br />
0.80<br />
0.48<br />
0.32<br />
The average ATFM delays per flight experienced in airport and en-route<br />
areas in 2011 amounted to 0.78 minutes, a 3.2% decrease on the previous<br />
year.<br />
When delays become inevitable through regulatory or air traffic flow<br />
management measures, it is important to minimise their impact on the<br />
flights concerned. The average length of the delays experienced in<br />
skyguide’s airspace in 2011 amounted to 14.65 minutes, an 11.8%<br />
decrease on the previous year. In Europe, it amounted to 19.96 minutes,<br />
which corresponds to a decrease of 18%.<br />
0.78<br />
0.21<br />
0.57<br />
Average ATFM delay per delayed flight<br />
(Europe & skyguide airspace) Source: OPAL data warehouse - CFMU data<br />
Delay (in minutes)<br />
25<br />
20<br />
15<br />
10<br />
5<br />
0<br />
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011<br />
Change (in %)<br />
Europe<br />
skyguide<br />
−19.1 −2.3 −2.4 −5.1 −1.6<br />
−18.2 −7.9 −16.3 +10.5 +6.2<br />
+5.4<br />
−5.3<br />
+0.1<br />
+0.8<br />
+0.2<br />
+7.1<br />
+2.6<br />
–5.4<br />
+3.3 +22.9 –18.0<br />
–2.4 +9.4 –11.8<br />
The skyguide workforce<br />
Personnel numbers as of 31 December 2011 (in full-time<br />
equivalents)<br />
Kloten/ Regional<br />
By division Geneva Dübendorf airports TOTAL<br />
Directorate * 6.4 8.7 15.1<br />
Operations 299.2 439.4 125.5 864.1<br />
Engineering &<br />
Technical Services 133.5 142.7 1.0 277.2<br />
Corporate<br />
Development 15.7 1.0 16.7<br />
Finance, Human<br />
Resources & Services 78.5 35.5 114.0<br />
Safety, Security,<br />
Quality 17.5 25.6 43.1<br />
TOTAL 550.8 652.9 126.5 1 330.2<br />
Temporary staff 2.1 10.3 12.4<br />
* includes Corporate Communications<br />
Financial results 2011<br />
in CHF million 2011 2010<br />
Revenue 427.2 364.9<br />
Personnel charges 263.1 247.0<br />
Other operating expences 136.1 129.6<br />
GROSS RESULTS 28.4 6.1<br />
Prior-year profit/loss brought forward – 49.7 – 62.7<br />
Profit/loss to be carried forward + 25.7 + 74.6<br />
NET RESULTS 4.4 18.0<br />
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The technical systems used by<br />
the air navigation services<br />
Receiver<br />
skyguide-net swisscom-net<br />
Exchange:<br />
France<br />
Italy<br />
Germany<br />
Austria<br />
Transmitter<br />
RADIOTELEPHONY (R/T)<br />
Aeronautical communication<br />
RADAR<br />
Téléphone<br />
Telephone<br />
CONTROLLER'S<br />
WORKPLACE<br />
Multi radar tracker<br />
Fallback<br />
The technical systems which are used to ensure the safety of air traffic can be<br />
divided into four types: 1) aeronautical communication systems (R/T & COM):<br />
radio transmitters/receivers and internal and external telephone lines, links for<br />
aeronautical message exchange, 2) radar systems, used to locate and track an<br />
FMP<br />
Stripless: a major technological development<br />
One of the most remarkable technical innovations at the air traffic controller’s<br />
workplace that skyguide has developed together with its SkySoft-ATM subsidiary<br />
has been the adoption since 2005 of a totally digitised working approach<br />
which has seen the abandonment of the profession’s traditional “flight strips”.<br />
This approach, adopted for the moment in the upper airspace control, is<br />
unique in Europe. The stripless workstation is a significant technical advance<br />
in terms of safety, capacity,<br />
efficiency and comfort; and it is<br />
a development that bears every<br />
comparison with the transition<br />
from manual cockpits to fly-<br />
by-wire technology. In 2011<br />
skyguide initiated a large programme<br />
for the extension of the<br />
stripless system to all sectors of<br />
its area control centres.<br />
VOR/DME<br />
VHF omni range<br />
NAVAIDS<br />
aircraft’s position, 3) flight data processing systems, used to precisely identify<br />
aircraft detected by radar and 4) air navigation aids, the facilities on the ground<br />
which “mark out” the airspace above.<br />
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CFMU<br />
Transmitter<br />
Aeronautical<br />
information<br />
broadcast<br />
Headset<br />
EURO-<br />
CONTROL<br />
NOTAM<br />
office<br />
Safety net<br />
correlation<br />
systeme<br />
COM<br />
Aeronautical<br />
communication<br />
FDP<br />
Radar<br />
screen<br />
Customer AIS<br />
Flight<br />
Plan<br />
Exchange:<br />
France<br />
Italy<br />
Germany<br />
DATA PROCESSING<br />
Exchange:<br />
France<br />
Italy<br />
Germany<br />
Austria<br />
INCH<br />
Visualisation<br />
Regional airports<br />
Selfbriefing terminals<br />
Search and rescue<br />
Civil und military authorities<br />
Airlines<br />
ILS/Localizer + Glidepath<br />
+ DME (Distance Measuring<br />
Equipment)<br />
Weather +<br />
Infrastructure data
Functional Airspace Block<br />
Europe Central (FABEC)<br />
Europe’s air navigation service providers are united in their determination<br />
to enhance their performance and lower their costs. The initiative devised<br />
by the European Commission to create a Single European Sky (SES), in<br />
which Switzerland and skyguide are also closely involved, promises to<br />
meet the needs of all airspace users – even with further increases in air<br />
traffic volumes – in safety, capacity, cost efficiency and sustainability<br />
terms.<br />
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Corporate Governance<br />
The Board of Directors<br />
Guy Emmenegger, Chairman of the board<br />
Since 2004<br />
Chairs the Compensation and Public Affairs Committees.<br />
Bernhard Müller, Deputy chairman<br />
Since 2009<br />
Member of the Projects Committee.<br />
Urs Althaus<br />
Since 2003<br />
Chairs the Projects Committee.<br />
Reto Hunger, skyguide staff representative<br />
Since 2003<br />
Member of the Projects Committee.<br />
Pierre Moreillon<br />
Since 2000<br />
Member of the Finance & Audit, Compensation and Public<br />
Affairs Committees.<br />
Urs M. Sieber<br />
Since 2003<br />
Member of the Finance & Audit, Compensation and Public<br />
Affairs Committees.<br />
Hans-Peter Strodel<br />
Since 2007<br />
Chairs the Finance & Audit Committee.<br />
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Simon Maurer, Roger Gaberell (Communications; advisory capacity), Marc R. Bohren, Jeannette Haus (Head of CEO’s Staff; advisory capacity), Francis Schubert, Daniel Weder, Alex Bristol, Robert Stadler.<br />
The Executive Board<br />
Daniel Weder, CEO<br />
Since 2007<br />
Member of the Board and Executive Committee of Aerosuisse<br />
(Swiss aviation’s umbrella organisation), Chairman<br />
of the FABEC ANSP Strategy Board and a member of the<br />
European Commission’s Aviation Platform.<br />
Francis Schubert, Corporate Development, Deputy CEO<br />
Member of the Executive Board since 2001<br />
Doctor in law, teaches aviation law at the Institute for Air &<br />
Space Law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada and at<br />
the law faculty of Lausanne University.<br />
Marc R. Bohren, Finance, Human Resources & Services<br />
Member of the Executive Board since 2000<br />
Holds a master’s degree from the CPCG together with various<br />
US commercial and stock-exchange qualifications.<br />
Simon Maurer, Safety, Security, Quality<br />
Member of the Executive Board since 2009<br />
Holds a degree in physics from the University of Basel and a<br />
post-graduate diploma in business administration from the<br />
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.<br />
Alex Bristol, Operations<br />
Member of the Executive Board since 2011<br />
B.A. University of Exeter, previously Head of Development &<br />
Investment Strategy of NATS, former air traffic controller.<br />
Robert Stadler, Engineering & Technical Services<br />
Member of the Executive Board since 2008<br />
Long working experience in information technology and<br />
IT management for various major providers of financial<br />
services in Switzerland.<br />
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In-depth information can<br />
be found in the skyguide<br />
Annual Report 2011<br />
skyguide<br />
swiss air navigation services ltd<br />
p.o. box 796<br />
CH-1215 geneva 15<br />
tel +41 22 417 41 11<br />
fax +41 22 417 45 47<br />
www.skyguide.ch<br />
@ skyguide – Figures and Facts/en/800/4.2012