Annual Monitoring Report 2022 - Estonia
Contextual information
National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2022/771 of 13 April 2022
List of ACCs 1
Tallinn ACC
No of airports in the scope of the performance plan
≥80’K 0
<80’K 2
Exchange rate (1 EUR=)
2017: 1 EUR
2022: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2022 0.4%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2022 0.4%
Share en route / terminal costs 2022 90% / 10%
En route charging zone(s)
Estonia
Terminal charging zone(s)
Estonia
Main ANSP
• EANS
Other ANSPs
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MET Providers
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Traffic (En route traffic zone)
▪ Estonia recorded 143K actual IFR movements in 2022, +30% compared to 2021 (110K).
▪ Actual 2022 IFR movements were -18% below the plan (175K).
▪ Actual 2022 IFR movements represent 62% of the actual 2019 level (229K).
▪ Estonia recorded 429K actual en route service units in 2022, -8.2% compared to 2021 (467K).
▪ Actual 2022 service units were -41% below the plan (727K).
▪ Actual 2022 service units represent 48% of the actual 2019 level (901K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ Estonia already achieved the RP3 target levels at the start of the reference period but continued to improve its performance continuously. In 2022 Estonia reached the maximum maturity level for all five management objectives.
▪ Estonia recorded lower rates of occurrences in 2022 relative to 2021. Both rates were below the Union-wide average. The NSA closely monitored the rate of occurrences and assessed the effectiveness of implemented measures.
▪ EANS could improve its safety management by implementing automated safety data recording systems.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Estonia achieved a KEA performance of 5.46% compared to its target of 1.22% and did not contribute positively to achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ The NSA states that the target was not achieved because of the traffic to/from Kaliningrad which does not follow the optimal routes due to the restrictive measures following Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.
▪ Both KEP and SCR deteriorated in comparison to 2021. The value of these two indicators is similar, meaning airspace users plan close to the shortest route available.
▪ The share of CDO flights increased by 18.6% compared to 2021.
▪ During 2022, additional time in terminal airspace decreased from 0.44 to 0.19 min/flight, while additional taxi out time increased from 1.03 to 1.39 min/flight.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Estonia registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2022, thus achieving the local target value of 0.03.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 38% below 2019 levels in Estonia in 2022.
▪ The number of ATCOs is not planned to change significantly by the end of RP3. The actual values of ATCOs in OPS remained below the plan in 2022.
▪ The share of delayed flights with delays longer than 15 minutes in Estonia increased by 28.57 p.p. compared to 2021 and was higher than 2019 values.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Tallinn ACC was 10,116 in 2022, showing a 15.4% increase compared to 2021. Sector opening hours are 20.3% below 2019 levels.
▪ Tallinn ACC registered 13.15 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2022, being 24.4% below 2019 levels.
▪ Estonia registered zero minutes of average airport arrival ATFM per flight in 2022, achieving the local target of 0 minutes.
▪ Compared to 2021, the number of IFR arrivals in Estonia increased by 49.13%, while the average arrival ATFM delays remained zero in 2022.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2022 actual unit cost of Estonia was 52.22 €2017, +50% higher than the determined unit cost (34.80 €2017). The terminal 2022 actual unit cost was 137.53 €2017, +6.0% higher than the determined unit cost (129.77 €2017).
▪ The en route 2022 actual service units (429K) were -41% lower than the determined service units (727K).
▪ In 2022, the en route actual total costs were 2.9 M€2017 (-12%) lower than determined. The main contributor was the decrease in staff costs (-1.9 M€2017, or -15%) as a result of the significantly higher in inflation than planned, and other operating costs (-0.9 M€2017, or -12%), due to cost-cutting measures to reduce losses.
▪ EANS spent 4.8 M€2017 in 2022 related to costs of investments, in line with determined. However, depreciation costs decreased due to changes in implementation dates of investments, while cost of capital increased due to a significant higher financing through equity than planned.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2022 was 66.39€, while the terminal actual unit cost incurred by users was 127.88€.