Annual Monitoring Report 2021 - Latvia
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/2426 of 5 December 2022
List of ACCs 1
Riga ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 3
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2021: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2021 0.8%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2021 0.3%
Share en route / terminal costs 2021 75% / 25%
En route charging zone(s)
Latvia
Terminal charging zone(s)
Latvia
Main ANSP
• LGS
Other ANSPs
–
MET Providers
• LVĢMC
Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Latvia recorded 164K actual IFR movements in 2021, +26% compared to 2020 (131K).
▪ Actual 2021 IFR movements represent 55% of the actual 2019 level (298K).
▪ Latvia recorded 542K actual en route service units in 2021, +23% compared to 2020 (439K).
▪ Actual 2021 service units represent 57% of the actual 2019 level (958K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ LGS achieved its RP3 EoSM targets in four out of five management objectives. LGS needs to improve in the safety risk management objective, but the achieved level is consistent with intermediate targets as per performance plan. Over 2021, LGS identified specific actions in safety risk management and assurance to align the safety management function to Regulation (EU) 2017/373.
▪ Latvia recorded a good performance with respect to safety risks with no separation minima infringements and no runway incursions in 2021. LSG has implemented specific measures aiming at improving safety performance including procedures, ATCO training, and specific equipment.
▪ LGS uses specific safety recording tools for separation minima infringements and runway incursions, being one of the few ANSPs doing so.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Latvia achieved a KEA performance of 1.62% compared to its target of 1.25% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target. KEA is at the worse levels in five years.
▪ The NSA states that air traffic flows and performance were impacted by inefficiencies linked to the sanctions against Belarus.
▪ Both KEP and SCR followed the same trend, and are at the worst levels in five years.
▪ The share of CDO flights has been continuously decreasing since 2017 and is currently at the lowest level in five years.
▪ Additional time in terminal airspace decreased by 29% in comparison to 2020, while additional taxi out time increased by 48%.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Latvia registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2021, thus meeting the local breakdown value of 0.01.
▪ En route ATFM delays in Latvia were also near zero on average during past years.
▪ Traffic recovery in Latvia has continued to be impacted by the airspace closures East of the SES area and 2019 traffic levels are not likely to be reached during RP3 in any growth scenario. The number of ATCOs in OPS is planned to remain the same until the end of RP3.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Riga ACC was 21,916, showing a 4.6% increase compared to 2020. Sector opening hours are 24.0% below 2019 levels.
▪ Riga ACC registered 7.41 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2021, being 27.9% below 2019 levels.
▪ Latvia registered an average airport arrival ATFM delay of 0.02 minutes per flight in 2021, achieving the local target of 0.02 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2020, the number of IFR arrivals in Latvia increased by 9.03%, while the average arrival ATFM delays increased by 0.02 minutes in 2021.
▪ The main reasons for delays were weather, accounting for 59% of delays, and other, non-ATC related causes, responsible for 41%.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪- The en route 2020/2021 actual unit cost of Latvia was 37.32 €2017, -6.9% lower than the determined unit cost (40.07 €2017). The ter-minal actual unit cost was 288.43 €2017, -4.2% lower than the determined unit cost (301.22 €2017).
▪ The en route 2021 actual service units (542K) were +4.8% higher than determined (517K).
▪ In 2021, actual total costs of Latvia were -1.7 M€2017 (-8.8%) lower than determined. The reduction was mainly driven by lower staff costs (-0.7 M€2017, or-6.2%) resulting from a reduction of 21 headcounts, and by lower other operating costs (-0.5 M€2017, or -13%) due to a decrease of trainings and business trips.
▪ LGS spent 5.7 M€2017 in 2021 related to costs of investments, -6.2% less than determined (6.0 M€2017), due to the fact that only ongoing projects proceeded as planned.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2020/2021 was 41.61€, while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users was 312.59€.