FAA Flight Plan Performance Report
Flight Plan Performance Report
FAA Flight Plan 4th Quarter Performance Report — September 2008
** Update: We received a Clean Audit without any material weakness. The Clean Audit Target has been achieved. **
What is the Flight Plan?
It is the FAA's strategic plan for 2008 through 2012. Our mission is to provide the safest and most efficient aerospace system in the world. The Flight Plan provides the foundation for achieving this mission based on four goal areas: Increased Safety, Greater Capacity, International Leadership, and Organizational Excellence. Our 2008 – 2012 Flight Plan (PDF) is available on the FAA website.
How do we tie pay to performance?
As a pay-for-performance agency, the FAA uses a performance-based system for compensating our executives and over 80 percent of our employees. Their pay is adjusted each year based on the agency's success in meeting the Flight Plan corporate performance targets. All employee performance plans are linked directly back to those targets. For employees under the performance-based plan, their pay raise is based on an organizational success increase (OSI). A full incentive OSI payout requires us to meet at least 90 percent, or 26 out of 29, of the Flight Plan performance targets.
How are we doing?
We ended the fiscal year by successfully accomplishing 26 out of 29 of our performance targets. The Clean Audit Target has been achieved with no material weakness.
For Increased Safety, we missed two of the seven targets. The Alaska Accidents target ended the year with 108 accidents, missing our target not to exceed of 104. Ten of the reported accidents were fatal accidents (three of these were Part 135). For Operational Errors, the year ended with a rate of 2.31, missing our target not to exceed of 2.15 per million activities. Terminal facilities had 239 category A&B operational errors versus their performance limit of 193 (46 more) and EnRoute facilities had 102 versus their performance limit of 135 (33 less).
In the Greater Capacity goal area, we met all but one of our seven targets. Our target for NAS On-Time Arrivals ended the year with an 87.35 percent on-time arrival rate, missing our target to meet of 88.0 percent.
In the International Leadership goal area, we met all four of our targets and continue to build partnerships for a safe and efficient global aviation system.
For the Organizational Excellence goal area, we met all 11 of our targets.
Where are we going?
For FY 2009, we have refreshed our Flight Plan to improve our metrics and align our resources and priorities, to meet the needs of the future, including the implementation of the Next Generation Air Transportation System, while remaining focused on safety. We will continue to track our progress towards meeting our targets and the expectations of our employees and stakeholders. We invite you to check back with us on our status for FY 2009.
Robert A. Sturgell
Acting Administrator
