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Report on operations

Market and air traffic trends

Air traffic control in Eurocontrol area countries in 2015 registered an overall growth
trend in en-route service units (*) with respect to 2014 with a general recovery of
demand. En-route service units generated in 2015 recorded a 4.2% increase in traffic
volumes compared to the previous year.
Notwithstanding positive results, en-route service units of the largest European
providers prove in any case to be less than the overall average of the Eurocontrol
area. Indeed, the figures indicate +2.6% for Spain, +2.0% For France, +1.7% for
Great Britain and +0.7% for Germany. The result achieved by Turkey in 2015 with an
increase of +10.7% in en-route services with respect to the previous year is surely
remarkable.
In this scenario, the result for en-route traffic in Italy at the end of 2015, recorded at
-1.7% with respect to the previous year goes against the general trend. The elements
that characterize the trend in Italy are illustrated in the following paragraphs.

Total en-route traffic service units (**) 2015 2014 Change %
no.

France 18,867,771 18,496,754 371,017 2.0%

Germany 12,976,261 12,880,783 95,478 0.7%

Britain 10,153,907 9,979,403 174,504 1.7%

Spain 8,997,417 8,767,769 229,648 2.6%

Italy (***) 8.171.509 8,313,546 (142,037) -1.7%

EUROCONTROL 128,254,489 123,048,160 5,206,329 4.2%

(*) traffic flying over Italian air space, with or without stopover.
(**) “service unit” is the unit of measurement used by Eurocontrol to calculate the value of the service provided, obtained by combining two elements:
aircraft weight at take-off and distance travelled.
(***) excluding exempt traffic not reported to Eurocontrol.

En-Route Traffic

En-route traffic in Italy in 2015, reported by Eurocontrol, showed a -1.7% fall in
the number of service units. This result is in contrast with the positive trend in the
number of assisted flights registered at +0.8% which also includes the category of
flights that are Exempt from being notified to Eurocontrol.
The comparison between the trend for the number of service units and the trend for
the number of flights may seem to be in conflict, but in reality the apparent conflict
is only due to a fall in one of the variables that has a significant impact on the
determination of the number of service units which is the average distance travelled
per flight.

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