Capacity - Estonia

PRB monitoring

▪ 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.

En route performance

En route ATFM delay (KPI#1)

Focus on en route ATFM delay

Summary of capacity performance

The Tallinn FIR experienced a traffic reduction of 58% from 2019 levels, to 96k flights. The traffic level was accommodated with negligible en route ATFM delays to airspace users.

NSA’s assessment of capacity performance

The en route capacity target set in the draft RP3 performance plan has been met for 2020.

Monitoring process for capacity performance

Review of the actual values from the NM dashboard.

Capacity planning

No data available

Application of Corrective Measures for Capacity (if applicable)

No data available

Other indicators

Focus on ATCOs in operations

Terminal performance

Arrival ATFM delay (KPI#2)

Focus on arrival ATFM delay

Estonia identified two airports, Tallinn and Tartu, as subject to RP3 monitoring. In accordance with IR (EU) 2019/317 and the traffic figures at these 2 airports, pre-departure delays are not monitored and the capacity performance focuses on arrival ATFM delays and slot adherence.
After a traffic increase of 18% along RP2 (2019 vs 2015), traffic at these Estonian airports decreased by 56% in 2020 compared to 2019. No arrival ATFM delays were observed in the entire 2020 at these two airports and there were only a few regulated departures with a slot adherence of 98.5%.

No arrival ATFM delay was observed at the Estonian airports (Tallinn and Tartu) in 2020, in line with the performance during RP2.

The provisional national target on arrival ATFM delay in 2020 was met.

In accordance with Article 3 (3) (a) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1627: The incentive scheme shall cover only the calendar years 2022 to 2024.

Other terminal performance indicators (PI#1-3)

Airport level
Airport name	Avg arrival ATFM delay (KPI#2)				Slot adherence (PI#1)				ATC pre departure delay (PI#2)				All causes pre departure delay (PI#3)
	2020	2021	2022	2023	2020	2021	2022	2023	2020	2021	2022	2023	2020	2021	2022	2023
Tallin	NA	NA	NA	NA	98.5%	NA%	NA%	NA%	0.01	NA	NA	NA	7.3	NA	NA	NA
Tartu	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA%	NA%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA

Focus on performance indicators at airport level

ATFM slot adherence

Only Tallinn had (a few) regulated departures in 2020. With the drastic drop in traffic, this already low number of regulated departures from Tallinn also virtually disappeared as of April. The annual figure is therefore driven by the performance in the first trimester.
Tallinn’s ATFM slot compliance was 98.5%, which in fact corresponds with only 3 departures departing late with respect to the STW in the entire 2020.

ATC pre-departure delay

This indicator is not monitored for airports below 80,000 IFR movements annual average during the 2016-2018 period, so it is not monitored for any airport in Estonia.

All causes pre-departure delay

This indicator is not monitored for airports below 80,000 IFR movements annual average during the 2016-2018 period, so it is not monitored for any airport in Estonia.