Since the 5 March 2008 the ATC capacity has been raised gradually. This has, according to feedback from the airline companies, resulted in a discernible reduction in delays. Almost all delays are isolated to the high traffic density periods, both as regards en route traffic as well as traffic to and from Danish airports.
Moreover, the continued good cooperation between the airliners operational planning and Naviair on a daily basis still contributes to minimise the air traffic delays.

For Naviair, it has been an important criterion for success to be able to deliver the capacity that was planned and announced ahead of the implementation of the new air traffic management system. However, there have been more system faults and inconveniences than expected, entailing, for safety reasons, a postponement of the capacity increase that was scheduled for the middle of February.

 With the gradual increase since the 5 March 2008, the capacity is now again in line with the lower end of the announced capacity plan.

The 13 March 2008 the new system was upgraded with a new software version, and the result from this upgrade seems promising. Further technical improvements and error corrections in the system have been agreed with the supplier and will be carried out and evaluated continuously towards middle of April. The expected effect from the technical improvements is the precondition as regards air traffic safety for Naviair to be able to gradually increase the ATC capacity.

This means that we will probably reach normal capacity level in the middle of April, 2-3 weeks later than originally scheduled.

Read more about delays and see revised Capacity Plan for the running-in period at

ww.naviair.dk/en/atm > Capacity & traffic

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