The EASA Annual Safety Review (ASR) 2024 is now online — it’s got all the information you need about the safety performance of civil aviation in the European Union for 2023.
The ASR is a key part of the European Safety Risk Management (SRM) process, where the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the national aviation authorities (NAAs), and industry work together to identify the aviation safety priorities for Europe. The SRM process results in the different safety actions in the European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS).
On this page, you can find the following:
- The scope of the ASR
- What’s new in the ASR this year?
- Some context for the ASR 2024 Edition
- Downloads — ASR 2024 Appendices
- Related Content — Highlights of the Annual Safety Review 2024
The scope of the ASR
The ASR addresses all parts of civil aviation, and it is split into chapters covering a safety overview of the whole aviation system:
- aeroplanes (commercial, specialised operations and non-commercial);
- rotorcraft (commercial, specialised operations and non-commercial);
- balloons;
- sailplanes (gliders);
- unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) / drones;
- Aerodromes (ADR) and ground handling (GH);
- Air traffic Management / Air Navigation Services (ATM/ ANS);
- the latest situation with the European Central Repository (ECR); and
- the standardisation exercise.
- This is the first year that drones are included in the ASR.
There are also several domain-specific appendices with advanced safety data and analysis, intended for more specialist readers of the document.
What’s new in the ASR this year?
EASA’s Safety Risk Management Section, the Team responsible for the ASR, are always looking to improve the document. This year ,there are some more interesting developments and additions:
- The domain-specific appendices are now fully based on ECR data using the European Risk Classification Scheme (ERCS) as coded by the NAAs of the EASA Member States (MSs). The Key Risk Areas are ordered based on the risk levels that were attributed to each event by the competent authorities using the ERCS. All occurrence classes (accident, serious incident, incident etc.) are covered by this scheme.
- There is a new chapter specifically looking at the safety performance of UAS/drones.
Some context for the ASR 2024 Edition
In 2023, traffic reached 95 % of 2019, i.e. pre-COVID levels. A total of 2.3 billion passengers were welcomed by Europe’s airports in 2023. Passenger traffic across the European airport network increased by 19 % compared with the previous year.
The number of operators (Air Operator’s Certificate (AOC) holders) in the EASA MSs rose slightly in 2023 from 615 to 639. Together, they operated 6 817 aircraft.
