Annual Monitoring Report 2020 - Estonia
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/771 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Tallinn ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 2
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2020: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2020 0.8%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2020 0.4%
Share en route / terminal costs 2020 91% / 9%
En route charging zone(s)
Estonia
Terminal charging zone(s)
Estonia
Main ANSP
• EANS
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
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Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Estonia recorded 97K actual IFR movements in 2020, -58% compared to 2019 (229K).
▪ Estonia IFR movements reduced more than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
▪ Estonia recorded 419K actual en route service units in 2020, -54% compared to 2019 (901K).
▪ Estonia service units reduced less than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ EANS has already achieved the RP3 EoSM targets and exceeded the targets in two management objectives. Even so, measures for further improvements are included in EANS’ Safety Strategy. The measures are mostly derived to achieve compliance with Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/373.
▪ EANS was already achieving high levels of maturity during RP2 and continued to improve the maturity during first year of RP3.
▪ Estonia recorded stable performance with respect to occurrences. Separation minima infringement per flight hour increased slightly due to the reduction in flight hours and the rate of runway incursion per movement decreased.
▪ EANS should improve its SMS by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Estonia achieved a KEA performance of 1.21% compared to its reference value of 1.33% and therefore contributed positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ Estonia offers airspace users a cross-border free route airspace with its partners in NEFAB and DK-SE FAB and stated that overflying traffic is as direct as it can be. The data confirms this since the KEA performance is similar to the shortest constrained routes in 2020.
▪ Only one out of two Estonian airports that are regulated reported terminal data.
▪ The share of flights operating CCO/CDO at Estonian airports remained similar in 2020 compared to 2019. However, the performances are still class leading with more than 60% of all arrivals completing a CDO landing.
▪ Airspace users spent the same amount of additional time taxiing or holding in terminal airspace in 2020 as they did in 2019, i.e. the reduction in traffic did not help improve performance. Although the additional times are quite small at 1.29 minutes per flight, some improvement should have been possible given the lack of congestion.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ EANS registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2020, thus meeting the local breakdown value of 0.05.
▪ Delays must be considered in the context of the traffic evolution: IFR movements in 2020 were 58% below the 2019 levels in Estonia.
▪ Estonia reported no capacity issues and a 25% drop in ATCO FTE numbers compared to 2019. Actual ATCO FTE numbers are also almost 17% below the planned value in 2020. Estonia did not report any specific drivers behind the ATCO FTE number reduction, however, no ATCO FTEs were reported to have stopped working in OPS.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Tallinn ACC was 9,585, showing a 24.5% decrease compared to 2019.
▪ Tallinn ACC registered 9.65 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2020, being 44.5% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ Estonia experienced the third most limited decrease in service units across Member States, with 2020 actual service units (419K) being 53% lower than the actual service units in 2019 (897K).
▪ Estonia reduced total costs in 2020 by 2.7 M€2017 (-9%) compared to 2019 actual cost. The reduction is mainly induced by a reduction of 1 M€2017 (-7%) in staff costs due to personnel layoffs and a decrease in other operating costs of 1.1 M€2017 (-14%) (e.g. due to cancellation of trainings and reduction in travel expenses).
▪ EANS spent 3.2 M€2017 in 2020 related to cost of investments, 45% less than planned in the 2019 draft performance plan (5.7 M€2017). The decrease is attributable to the postponement of most of 2020 investments to 2022 onwards.