PRB monitoring
▪ 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.
Summary of capacity performance
Lithuania experienced a traffic reduction of 54% from 2019 levels, to 139k flights. The traffic level was accommodated with zero en route ATFM delays to airspace users.
NSA’s assessment of capacity performance
Nothing to add to this factual evidence.
Monitoring process for capacity performance
With a pragmatic view to lessen administrative burden to NSA, monitoring process was the simple one - to observe the data provided by EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence dashboard.
Capacity planning
No restraints for achieving capacity targets as traffic dropped significantly. Full readiness for traffic-rebound maintaining same performance.
Application of Corrective Measures for Capacity (if applicable)
No data available
Total FTE is calculated by omitting sick-leave and other absences and underworked hours. Total number of ATCO’s fluctuates just slightly year from year around the optimum number for current and unchanged airspace structure. In 2020 3 new ATCOs joined ops room as there was a slight shortage of working-hands from previous periods and 2 ATCO’s retired at the end of 2019.