In April, RIX Riga Airport welcomed 547.2 thousand passengers, marking a return to pre-pandemic visitors ranges, fueled by a broad vary of recent and distinctive flight routes.
RIX Riga Airport served 547.2 thousand passengers this April, which is the primary month of the summer time flight schedule; 1.9 million passengers have used Riga Airport for his or her journeys because the starting of the 12 months.
In comparison with April 2023, the variety of direct passengers at Riga Airport has elevated by three % and has returned to the pre-pandemic stage, even barely exceeding it. The expansion within the direct passenger section was facilitated by the huge and numerous vary of routes supplied by the airways working in Riga, and the distinctive locations that can not be reached from different close by airports. 442 thousand passengers used Riga Airport for direct flights in April, whereas the variety of transit and switch travellers dealt with in April was 105.5 thousand.
Throughout the month, the Airport served 5175 passenger, air cargo, technical, enterprise and different flights, or 5 % greater than final April. For the reason that starting of the 12 months, the variety of flights has reached 17.8 thousand.
Throughout this summer time season, 20 airways function at Riga Airport, which give Latvia with connections to greater than 100 locations in 44 international locations world wide. The biggest vary of novelties for summer time flights from Riga is obtainable by the nationwide airline airBaltic, which opened flights to Ljubljana on the finish of April, and to Tirana, Sofia, Skopje, Chisinau and Pristina within the first week of Could. With the opening of the bottom, Norwegian is growing its community of direct flight routes from Riga this summer time, providing direct flights to the leisure locations of Tivat and Corfu along with flights to Oslo, Stockholm, Copenhagen and Trondheim.
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