Annual Monitoring Report 2020 - Lithuania
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/2494 of 9 December 2022
List of ACCs 1
Vilnius ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 0
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2020: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2020 0.6%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2020 0.3%
Share en route / terminal costs 2020 100% / 0%
En route charging zone(s)
Lithuania
Terminal charging zone(s)
Main ANSP
• Oro Navigacija
Other ANSPs
• LGS (Latvian ANSP)
MET Providers
• Lietuvos hidrometeorologijos tarnyba (Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service, LHMS)
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Lithuania recorded 139K actual IFR movements in 2020, -54% compared to 2019 (303K).
▪ Lithuania IFR movements reduced less than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
▪ Lithuania recorded 333K actual en route service units in 2020, -46% compared to 2019 (619K).
▪ Lithuania service units reduced less than the average reduction at Union-wide level (-57%).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ SE Oro Navigacjia achieved the RP3 EoSM targets in 2020 and exceeded the target in the safety policy and objectives and safety promotion objectives. The achieved levels are better than what was planned in the 2019 draft performance plan.
▪ Compared with the maturity level reached in RP2, SE Oro Navigacjia has continued to improve the maturity of its safety management during the first year of RP3 and achieved the RP3 targets before planned.
▪ In terms of safety occurrences, Lithuania reported a lower rate of SMIs and a higher rate of RIs in 2020 compared to 2019. According to Lithuania’s adopted acceptable and tolerated levels of safety, the 2020 rates of occurrences are at an acceptable level of safety.
▪ SE Oro Navigacjia should improve its SMS by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Lithuania achieved a KEA performance of 1.90% compared to its reference value of 1.90% and therefore contributed positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ Lithuania stated that its performance was achieved because of low traffic in 2020 and that due to its geographical location near Kaliningrad and Belarus, the good KEA performance will not be sustained given the new geo-political tensions that arose in 2021.
▪ However, given that the SCR in 2020 was 1.59%, even with existing inefficient traffic patterns the KEA can improve. Lithuania has admitted it does not have the relevant tools to analyse SCR at an individual flight level to apply further measures to improve performance, but it is working to build this capability in 2021.
▪ Lithuania has no airports that are regulated under the RP3 performance and charging scheme.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ SE Oro Navigacija 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 54% below the 2019 levels in Lithuania.
▪ Lithuania reported no capacity issues and only a minor variation in ATCO FTE numbers.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Vilnius ACC was 10,462, showing a 32.1% decrease compared to 2019.
▪ Vilnius ACC registered 11.36 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2020, being 32.3% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ Lithuania faced the smallest decrease in traffic across Member States. The 2020 actual service units (333K) were 46% lower than the actual service units in 2019 (621K).
▪ In 2020 Lithuania reduced total costs by 3.2 M€2017 (-14%) compared to 2019 actual costs. Staff costs were the main driver of the decrease with a reduction of 2.5 M€2017 (-17%), due to the suspension of hiring for non-critical positions and cutting of variable salary.
▪ SE Oro Navigacija spent 3.8 M€2017 in 2020 related to costs of investments, 43% less than planned in the 2019 draft performance plan (6.7 M€2017).
▪ SE Oro Navigacija postponed and stopped some of its investments due to COVID-19 crisis. Moreover, the NSA reported that the new AFTN system and voice communication system were bought at competitive prices decreasing its actual costs.