Bulgarian Air Traffic Service Authority – Provision of Capacity in 2014, Preparation measures for 2015 The Second Meeting of the Ad Hoc Afghanistan Contingency Group Meeting (AHACG/2) Istanbul, Turkey, 17-19 November 2014 Ukraine situation  ICAO letter - EUR/NAT 140243.TEC(FOL/CUP) – 02 April 2014  New traffic trajectories let to increased load in Sofia ACC instantly. Re-routing options  SAAM shortest Route Assignment as of 03.04.2014 Immediate actions  An ad-hoc plan was created to cover a number of actions, all based on priority in time:  Tactical measures – 0 to 72 hours;  Short-term measures – 72 hours to 1 month;  Mid-term measures – 1 month to 1 year. Tactical measures  Provision of updated information in OPS room  Tactical update of personnel roster  Provision of updated information for rerouting options to ATCOs/AO  Preparation for initiation of training of ATCO for additional sector family endorsements Short-term measures  Roster update to transfer ATCOs with double endorsement to sector family Varna  Review of available sector configurations  Analysis of other available option for traffic load distribution  Training on Varna sector family  Inclusion of all experts with valid en-route endorsements in roster Mid-term measures  Design and implementation of new sector configurations taking into consideration the new dominant flow  Review of five year ATCO training plan  Redesign of Voice Communication System scenarios to fit new sector configurations On-going actions  Monitoring of parameters in respect to new methodology for load/capacity balancing based on sector occupancy counts.  Design of new sectors for family sectors Varna Facts and Figures Conclusions for 2014 summer period  All available resources in BULATSA were put for the provision of adequate service  ATFM delay, attributed to Sofia ATCC is zero – for all reasons Preparations for summer 2015  Implementation of new VCS system  Major upgrade of ATM system:  CDB6 implementation  Extended set of OLDI messages with ROMATSA  Mode S  Finalization of new sectors for FS Varna possibly combined with airspace reorganization  Training of ATCOs  Additional measures, based on the outcome of the present meeting