Annual Monitoring Report 2021 - 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
2021: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2021 0.7%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2021 0.3%
Share en route / terminal costs 2021 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 178K actual IFR movements in 2021, +28% compared to 2020 (139K).
▪ Actual 2021 IFR movements represent 59% of the actual 2019 level (303K).
▪ Lithuania recorded 443K actual en route service units in 2021, +33% compared to 2020 (333K).
▪ Actual 2021 service units represent 72% of the actual 2019 level (619K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ SE Oro Navigacjia, that achieved the EoSM targets in 2020, demonstrated good safety performance and continued safety improvements over 2021. SE Oro Navigacjia exceeded the RP3 EoSM targets in safety policy and objectives, safety promotion and culture. The recent audit of the safety function confirmed the efficiency of the measures undertaken to align the ANSP safety management function to the Regulation (EU) 2017/373.
▪ Lithuania recorded a good performance with respect to safety risks with no separation minima infringements and no runway incursions reported in 2021. The safety occurrences are closely monitored against acceptable and tolerated levels of safety adopted by Lithuania for 2017-2021.
▪ SE Oro Navigacjia should improve its safety management by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Lithuania achieved a KEA performance of 3.01% compared to its target of 1.93% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target. KEA worsened by 58% in comparison to 2020.
▪ SCR and KEP worsened by 46% and 58% respectively compared to 2020.
▪ Lithuania states that performance in 2021 was significantly affected by the consequences of an incident in Belarus airspace in May 2021, leading to EU carriers avoiding their airspace since.
▪ The NSA also highlights that Lithuania’s geographical location (neighbouring Kaliningrad and Belarus) is a barrier to environmental performance.
▪ Lithuania has no airports that are regulated under the RP3 performance and charging scheme.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Lithuania 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 Lithuania were also zero on average during the past years.
▪ Traffic recovery in Lithuania has been slow and with the airspace closures East of the SES area and the 2019 levels are not likely to be reached during RP3 in any growth scenario. The number of ATCOs in OPS is planned to increase slightly by the end of RP3.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Vilnius ACC was 10,923, showing a 4.4% increase compared to 2020. Sector opening hours are 29.1% below 2019 levels.
▪ Vilnius ACC registered 14.59 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2021, being 13.0% below 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2020/2021 actual unit cost of Lithuania was 49.75€2017, slightly lower (-1.5%) than the determined unit cost (50.51€2017). Lithuania does not have a terminal charging zone.
▪ The en route 2021 actual service units (443K) were +4.2% higher than determined (425K).
▪ In 2021, actual total costs were +0.3M€2017 (+1.6%) higher compared to determined cost. The NSA explains that the increases are due to a rise in flow of overflights in June 2021 impacting the application of cost-allocation principles.
▪ However, the increases were partially offset by a non-planned negative amount in exceptional items (-0.2M€2017), being the result of a property revaluation in the end of 2021.
▪ SE Oro Navigacija spent 4.0M€2017 in 2021 related to costs of investments, +3.3% higher than determined (3.9M€2017). The differ-ence was due to both a slight increase of net book value of fixed assets, and the application of cost-allocation principles.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2020/2021 was 52.59€.