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DIRE C T OR ’ S REPOR T L F V 2018 Furthermore, s
trong growth in traffic and increased demands on the infrastructure have brought significant resource needs and increased costs. CAPACITY In 2018, LFV’s air navigation service achieved the ambitious targets for accessibility and capacity with minimal delays. 99.8 percent of en route flights in Swedish airspace could continue without any delays caused by the air navigation service. However, the capacity target for Terminal Arlanda was not reached. This was primarily caused by weather-related issues, and to some extent also by disruptions in the technological infrastructure. LFV’s operational resource planning is based on traffic forecasts Eurocontrol makes for the Swedish airspace. In 2018, air traffic increased significantly more than forecast. During the summer months, extra resources were required in order to meet this challenge. The average delay was 0.04 (0.02) minutes per flight, which is better than the EU target for the Danish-Swedish airspace, which was 0.9 (0.10) minutes per flight. REFERENCE PERIOD 3 New regulations for the upcoming reference period (RP3, 2020–2024) were decided in December 2018. The new regulations mean, among other things, a stricter control of investments, but also greater opportunities for taking local conditions into account. Work on setting targets for RP3 is ongoing and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2019. There are proposals for further price reductions of the unit cost by 4.1 percent per year for Europe's air navigation service providers. Streamlining of this magnitude is deemed to be extremely challenging and can be compared with the requirements set in RP2 for annual unit cost reductions at an average of approximately 2.5 percent. Excessive control over costs is likely to affect capacity and thus delivery looking ahead. LFV is working actively to be able to influence the structure of the third reference period and how the targets are set for Sweden. ROUTE CHARGES (kr/service unit) 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 662 633 664 640 609 579 581 563 531 0 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 25