PRB monitoring
▪ 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.
Summary of capacity performance
Latvia experienced an increase in traffic from 129k flights in 2020 to 163k flights in 2021, with zero ATFM delay. However, traffic levels were still substantially below the 295k flights in 2019.
NSA’s assessment of capacity performance
Due to considerable impact of COVID-19 and sanctions against Belarus, there were no identified issues with the capacity.
Monitoring process for capacity performance
Impact of traffic diversion due to Belarus sanctions were analysed and posed no capacity issues. Data was shared with EASA. Information about impact on traffic flows and numbers is shared by the ANSP upon request and during oversight audits and inspections, when all aspects impacting capacity in different sectors is checked.
Capacity planning
Currently, LGS capacity planning is adequate and meets the requirements.
Application of Corrective Measures for Capacity (if applicable)
No data available
Latvia identified 4 airports as subject to RP3 monitoring. In accordance with IR (EU) 2019/317 and the traffic figures at these 4 airports, pre-departure delays are not monitored and the capacity performance monitoring focuses on arrival ATFM delay and slot adherence.
Traffic at these Latvian airports in 2021 was still 55% lower than in 2019.
Average arrival ATFM delays in 2021 was 0.02 min/arr, compared to 0 min/arr in 2020.
ATFM slot adherence has slightly improved (2021: 98.8%; 2020: 98.4%).
Only Riga (EVRA) registered some delays in 2021, all in December, attributed to accident/incident and weather. This resulted in an annual average for Riga of 0.02 min/arr.
The provisional national target on arrival ATFM delay in 2021 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.
| 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)
|
| 2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
2020 |
| Liepaya |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
100.0% |
NA% |
NA% |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
| Riga |
0.02 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
98.8% |
NA% |
NA% |
98.4% |
0.03 |
NA |
NA |
NA |
6.8 |
NA |
NA |
4.6 |
ATFM slot adherence
With the drastic drop in traffic, the share of regulated departures from Latvian airports virtually disappeared until July 2021.
Riga’s ATFM slot compliance was 98.8%, a slight improvement with respect to the already good value in 2020 (98.4%). With regard to the 1.2% of flights that did not adhere, 0.5% was early and 0.7% was late.
EVVA did not have any regulated departures and EVLA had only 2, with a 100% slot adherence.
According to the Latvian monitoring report: Slight improvement was registered in adherence to ATFM slot due to ATCOs experience enhancement.
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 Latvia.
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 Latvia.