In June alone, 667,000 passengers used Riga Airport for their trips, which is 5 % more than a year earlier.
"The increase in the number of passengers has been facilitated by the wide and varied range of direct connections from Rīga, which is attractive not only to Latvians, but to all Baltic travellers. Rīga Airport is consistently the largest air traffic hub in the Baltics with 40 % of the total number of passengers served at all Baltic airports," said the release.
In terms of the number of flights served, Riga is also the leader: Rīga served 38 percent of all Baltic flights in the first half of the year, Tallinn served 27 %, and Vilnius served 28 %. A further 9 percent of flights were served at Kaunas and Palanga airports in Lithuania.
In terms of the number of direct passengers, Rīga Airport now exceeds the pre-pandemic indicators "by a few percent", according to the airport release.
The first half of the year also saw several new sales points opened at Rīga Airport, including a new café and a self-service kiosk for buying flowers. A baggage delivery time monitoring system was implemented in the baggage claim hall at the beginning of May, which allows passengers to monitor the status of baggage delivery.
In 2024 as a whole, RIX Riga Airport expects to serve 7.2 million passengers.
