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Delivering Free Route Airspace for Northern Europe ~ Progress to date Branka Subotić, Executive Director Page 1 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Borealis Alliance • 9 ANSPs • 3 FABs • > 3.8M flights/year • > 10400 flights/day • 38% of European traffic Page 1 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Free Route Airspace (FRA) Programme Page 2 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Free Route Airspace (FRA) Programme Commenced on 1 st January 2015 and is expected to run until 2021, • when the vision will be realised “Free Route” within Borealis FRA takes into account EUROCONTROL • definition as well as regional practices Free Route Airspace is key to the delivery of fuel efficient and • environmentally friendly user preferred routings from the eastern boundary of the oceanic airspace to the Russian border • Our aim is to enable airspace users to fly efficient routes which can be planned for in advance, allowing savings such as reduced fuel load to be realised • For more information please see http://www.borealis.aero Page 3 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Borealis FRA Progress in 2015 (1/2) • Transitioned seamlessly from NEFRA to Borealis FRA governance structure: § Borealis Board GOVERNANCE IN PLACE § Borealis FRA Steering Group § Borealis FRA Project Group • Formed the following Borealis FRA expert groups: 1. Project Group 2. Technical Subgroup KEY DOCUMENTS AGREED AND 3. Airspace Modelling/Simulation Subgroup DELIVERED BY 9 4. Publication group ANSPs • Delivered some of the key Borealis FRA documents: 1. Programme Management Plan 2. CONOPS 3. Terms of Reference Page 4 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Borealis FRA Progress in 2015 (2/2) • Encouraged our regulators in forming the 9 State 9 STATE NSAs NSAs group that aims to deliver a common GROUP ON BOARD regulatory framework for the Borealis FRA Programme • Reviewed our Borealis FRA CONOPS with airlines and FPSP and received positive feedback THUMBS UP FROM THE AIRLINES AND EUROPEAN • Engaged with the EC, EASA and EUROCONTROL on INSTITUTIONS an on-going basis to inform them of our progress and seek support when needed • Applied for the CEF funding and were successfully RECOGNISED BY THE CEF AS ONE OF awarded EUR6.5M under the INEA 2014 Call THE KEY EUROPEAN PROJECTS • Further applied for the CEF funding under the INEA 2015 Call Page 5 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Free Route Airspace (FRA) Programme INCREMENTAL STEPS TO JOIN EXISTING FRA VOLUMES Icelandic and UK Irish and NEFAB and airspace joining from Danish/Swedish FAB NEFRA 2016 onwards Page 6 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Irish/DK-SE FAB Free Route Airspace • The IAA’s ENSURE (En-Route Shannon Upper Airspace Re-Design) project removed the airway structure from its enroute airspace, thereby changing its nature to route free • DK-SE FAB implemented Free Route Airspace from November 2011 • In both cases, well ahead of the EU requirements Page 7 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

NEFAB Free Route Airspace • NEFAB FRA kicked off in November 2015 in Estonia, Finland, Latvia (FL95+) and Norway (FL135+) • Enables airspace users to plan and operate according to business trajectories • Flight planning and operations can take into account factors impacting costs: • prevailing winds • shortest routes • airspace reservations • Well ahead of the EU requirements Page 8 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

NEFRA Programme NEFRA is the interface connecting Free Route Airspaces volumes in • NEFAB and DK/SE FAB above FL285+ Pioneers multi-FAB Free Route Airspace across two FABs or six States • In November 2015 common flight planning rules in FRA introduced • accross NEFAB and DK/SE FAB In progress: remaining requirements to use fixed points at FAB • borders are being gradually removed Once finalised, the whole area will seem as one continuous FRA to • airspace users Page 9 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Borealis FRA Implementation Steps • Seven implementation steps 2016 – 2021 ID Lead ANSP Step Planned S1 IAA Extension of FRA in Shannon FIR down to FL75 2016 FRA for flights departing/arriving within S2 Isavia Reykjavik FIR via Norway FIR FRA for flights departing/arriving within S3 Isavia Reykjavik FIR via Scottish FIR Implementation of FRA in seven Scottish FIR S4 NATS 2017 sectors FRA for all flights transiting via Norway and S5 Isavia Scottish FIRs Full implementation of FRA in Scottish FIR and in S6 NATS parts of London FIR S7 NATS Full implementation of FRA in London FIR 2021 Page 10 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Borealis FRA CONOPS • First CONOPS developed and agreed across nine ANSPs • Defines implementation of the seamless interface between FRA volumes in DK-SE FAB, NEFAB, UK/Ireland FAB and Iceland FL135/195+ FL55+ • Enables airspace users to plan and execute FL95+ user-preferred trajectories without reference to any existing ATS route FL255/ FL285+ FL335+ structure within the FRA volumes of the nine Borealis Alliance Members FL75/55/55+ • Borealis FRA volumes (planned vertical extension) are shown on the graph Page 11 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Industry and stakeholder support EASA Flight Standards Director (Ricardo Genova Galvan): MAJOR STEP “EASA welcomes the harmonised approach taken for the Borealis Free Ø FORWARD FOR Route Airspace initiative. In line with the European regulatory framework it SES aims to provide efficiency benefits for airspace users in Europe”. Chair of 9-State NSA Group (Kari Seikkinen): SETTING THE “The 9-State NSA Group established to support the Borealis Alliance’s work Ø BENCHMARK FOR is a benchmark for regulatory cooperation across Europe. We are committed to working together to explore how we can best help this REGULATORY exciting initiative deliver for Europe’s airspace users.” COOPERATION Deputy Director Operations Control Ryanair (Choorah Singh): “Free Route Airspace (FRA) in Europe will enable Ryanair to fly more Ø SAVING AIRLINES environmentally friendly flight trajectories and help reduce greenhouse TIME, MONEY emissions by reducing fuel consumption. Ryanair looks forward to working AND FUEL closely with the Borealis Alliance to deliver the benefits of FRA as soon as possible and to further enhance cooperation between European ATM stakeholders.” Page 12 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Example 1 ENRY (Moss Airport Rygge) → EGCC (Manchester) Operated by Ryanair 4 times a week Length (Nm) Time (min) Fuel (kg) CO2 (kg) NOx (kg) -2.1 -0.3 -10.7 -33.8 -0.1 Page 13 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

BIKF (Reykjavik - Keflavik) → Example 2 EKBI(Billund) Operated by many airlines (e.g. SAS, Turkish, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Lufthansa, KLM, Finnair, BA, Icelandair, Ryanair, Air Berlin, Air Baltic) Length (Nm) Time (min) Fuel (kg) CO2 (kg) NOx (kg) -4.2 -0.6 -32.1 -101.3 -0.3 Page 14 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Estimated Benefits from Borealis FRA (incl. NEFRA) 2018 1 à 2021 2 (per annum) Seamless Airspace Cost Savings 2.5M Nm à 4.7M Nm €21M à € 39M 390K min à 770K min Reduced Fuel Burn Less Emissions 15K t à 26K t 47K t à 83K t CO 2 206t à 365t NOx 1 Borealis FRA SAAM modelling results for the first five implementation steps 2 NEFRA SAAM modelling results extrapolated for Borealis traffic, assuming all seven implementation steps Page 15 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016

Thank you very much! For more information please contact: Branka Subotić Borealis Alliance Executive Director branka.subotic@nats.co.uk For more information please go to: www.borealis.aero Page 16 | Borealis Alliance | March 2016