Annual Monitoring Report 2025 - Estonia

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Contextual information

National performance plan adopted following Commission Decision (EU) 2025/1064 of 23 April 2026

List of ACCs   1

Tallinn ACC



No of airports in the scope of the performance plan

≥80’K     0
<80’K      0

Exchange rate (1 EUR=) 

2022: 1 EUR
2025: 1 EUR

Share of Union-wide traffic (TSUs) 2025  0.5%

Share of Union-wide en route costs 2025  0.4%

Share en route / terminal costs 2025  100% / 0%

En route charging zone(s)

Estonia

Terminal charging zone(s)

Main ANSP 

• EANS

Other ANSPs 

–

MET Providers 

–

Traffic (En route traffic zone)

  • Estonia recorded 176K actual IFR movements in 2025, +3.1% compared to 2024 (171K).

  • Actual 2025 IFR movements were -1.8% below the plan (179K).

  • Actual 2025 IFR movements were -23.0% below the actual 2019 level (229K).


  • Estonia recorded 647K actual service units in 2025, +16.6% compared to 2024 (555K).

  • Actual 2025 service units were +5.7% above the plan (612K).

  • Actual 2025 service units are -28.2% below the actual 2019 level (901K).

Safety (Main ANSP)

  • In 2025, EANS achieved the planned maturity levels set out in its performance plan for all five components of the EoSM. In more detail, EANS exceeded the planned level in the area of Safety Policy and Objectives.

  • Estonia has not included any airports in their RP4 performance plans, thus not reporting on runway incursions during the reference period.

  • The rate of separation minima infringements (SMIs) at State level was 7.98, and at ANSP level 6.39. Both indicators were slightly higher than the Union-wide average.

  • When comparing to 2024, the rate of separation minima infringements has increased at both State level and at ANSP level.

Environment (Member State)

  • Estonia registered a KEA performance of 5.75% compared to its target of 6.54% and contributed positively towards achieving the Union-wide target. The NSA states the main reason for meeting the target is mainly driven by changes in traffic composition, such as Asian long-haul cargo traffic.

  • Both KEP and KES improved in comparison with 2024. The improvement in KES shows that Estonia has improved the element of horizontal flight efficiency that is under its control.

  • VFE of the actual trajectory was at 76.92%, which was better than the Union-wide average.

  • No airports are included in the performance plan for monitoring.

Capacity (Member State)


  • Estonia registered 0.01 minutes of average en route ATFM delay per flight during 2025, which remained 0.01 after the post-ops adjustment process, thus achieving the local target value of 0.06. Delays in Estonia remained stable year-on-year.

  • The number of ATCOs in OPS was 25 being above the 2025 plan in Tallinn ACC by 1 FTE.

  • The yearly total of sector opening hours in Tallinn ACC was 10,494, showing a 0.2% increase compared to 2024.

  • Tallinn ACC registered 15.90 IFR movements per sector opening hour in 2025, being 4% above the 2024 levels.

Cost-efficiency (En route/Terminal charging zone(s))


  • The en route 2025 actual unit cost of Estonia was 42.51€2022, -8.2% lower than the determined unit cost (46.29€2022). Estonia does not have a terminal charging zone.

  • The en route 2025 actual service units (0.65M) were +5.7% higher than the determined service units (0.61M).

  • The en route 2025 actual total costs were -0.8M€2022 (-2.9%) lower than determined. This is mainly due to lower other operating costs for the NSA (-0.9M€2022, or -20.1%) and lower staff costs of EANS (-0.7M€2022, or -5.4%). According to the NSA the reduction in NSA other operating costs is mainly due to public sector cost containment measures and the optimisation of property-related costs, while the reduction in EANS staff costs results from a higher share of costs being allocated to terminal.

  • EANS costs of investments were 4.3M€2022 in 2025, +15.7% more than determined (3.7M€2022). According to the NSA, this increase is attributed to a revision of the phasing of investment costs and depreciation reflecting earlier cost recognition.

  • The en route actual unit cost incurred by users in 2025 was 49.47€ (-4.1% below the 2025 DUC). The difference between the AUCU and the DUC is mainly driven by traffic adjustments.

  • The en route regulatory result for EANS amounted to +2.7M€, or 10.9% of the 2025 revenue. This may indicate that the airspace users are charged for costs which have not materialised in 2025.