Annual Monitoring Report 2023 - 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
2023: 1 EUR
Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2023 0.3%
Share of Union-wide en route costs 2023 0.3%
Share en route / terminal costs 2023 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 189K actual IFR movements in 2023, +3% compared to 2022 (184K).
▪ Actual 2023 IFR movements were -11% below the plan (213K).
▪ Actual 2023 IFR movements represent 62% of the actual 2019 level (303K).
▪ Lithuania recorded 404K actual en route service units in 2023, +7% compared to 2022 (376K).
▪ Actual 2023 service units were -2.9% below the plan (416K).
▪ Actual 2023 service units represent 65% of the actual 2019 level (619K).
Safety (Main ANSP)
▪ SE Oro Navigacjia has already exceeded the RP3 targets in 2022 and maintained its performance in 2023. The ANSP has an effective safety management system that is updated continuously, ensuring the safety performance satisfy the target set by Lithuanian National Safety Plan for 2022-2026.
▪ Despite the currently high performance of the ANSP, the NSA cautions that the ANSP might not to be able to maintain the RP3 targets. NSA audits of the SMS in planned for 2024.
▪ Lithuania recorded a stable performance with respect to safety risks with same level of separation minima infringements as in 2022 and no runway incursions. The safety occurrences were closely monitored against the acceptable and tolerated levels of safety (ATLS) established in the Lithuanian National Safety Plan for 2022-2026.
▪ SE Oro Navigacjia do not use automated safety data recording systems for runway incursions.
Environment (Member State)
▪ Lithuania achieved a KEA performance of 13.14% compared to its target of 1.92% and did not contribute positively towards achieving the Union-wide target.
▪ The NSA states that the KEA deterioration was due to significant route extensions as a result of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. The NSA also highlights that Lithuania’s geographical location is a barrier to environmental performance.
▪ SCR and KEP worsened compared to 2022.
▪ Lithuania has no airports that are regulated under the performance and charging scheme.
Capacity (Member State)
▪ Lithuania registered zero minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2023, thus achieving the local target value of 0.02. Delays in Lithuania remained unchanged year-on-year.
▪ The average number of IFR movements was 37% below 2019 levels in Lithuania in 2023.
▪ The number of ATCOs in OPS is expected to increase by 3% by 2024, with the actual value being below the 2023 plan in Vilnius by 1 FTEs.
▪ The yearly total of sector opening hours in Vilnius ACC was 9,119, showing a 6.5% decrease compared to 2022. Sector opening hours are 40.8% below 2019 levels.
▪ Vilnius ACC registered 18.08 IFR movements per one sector opening hour in 2023, being 7.8% above 2019 levels.
Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))
▪ The en route 2023 actual unit cost of Lithuania was 46.29 €2017, -1.3% lower than the determined unit cost (46.90 €2017). Lithuania does not have a terminal charging zone.
▪ The en route 2023 actual service units (0.40M) were -2.8% lower than the determined service units (0.42M).
▪ The en route 2023 actual total costs were -0.8 M€2017 (-4.1%) lower than determined. The primary factor contributing to this difference relates to other operating costs (-200 K€2017, or -4.9%). This gap was due to energy costs that were lower than anticipated, as well as delays in the tender process for the maintenance services.
▪ The ANSPs spent 4.0 M€2017 in 2023 related to costs of investments, -9.8% less than determined (4.4 M€2017), driven by delayed investments.
▪ The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2023 was 60.27€ (+0.6% above the 2023 DUC).