Riga airport
Riga International Airport Rīgas Starptautiskā Lidosta |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | EVRA |
IATA code | RIX |
Coordinates | |
Height above MSL | 10 m (33 ft ) |
Transport links | |
Distance from the city center | 13 km southwest of Riga |
Street | |
Local transport | Bus line 22 or 22a (express) |
Basic data | |
opening | 1974 |
operator | Ministry of Transport of Latvia |
Terminals | 1 |
Passengers | 7,798,394 (2019) |
Air freight | 27,265 t (2019) |
Flight movements |
87.007 (2019) |
Start-and runway | |
18/36 | 3200 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Riga Airport ( lett. Starptautiskā lidosta "Rīga" , IATA RIX , ICAO EVRA ) is the airport of the Latvian capital Riga . It is located in the Mārupe district .
meaning
The airport is the most important of the country's three airports and the most important in the Baltic States . It was opened in October 1974 under the sovereignty of Aeroflot . After Latvia gained independence in the early 1990s, it passed into Latvian ownership, although the growth in passenger numbers up to 2004 was only moderate despite the modernization between 1993 and 2001 due to high usage fees. In 1995 the number of passengers was 504,000 and in 2003 it was 712,000. After reducing prices by 60%, the number of passengers rose sharply. In 2005 it was 1.9 million, in 2008 3.7 million and 2017 6.1 million passengers.
1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
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2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
310 | 398 | 504 | 506 | 535 | 555 | 562 | 574 | 623 | 633 |
712 | 1060 | 1878 | 2495 | 3161 | 3691 | 4067 | 4664 | 5107 | 4768 |
4793 | 4814 | 5162 | 5400 | 6097 | 7056 | 7798 |
Airlines and Destinations
Riga Airport is the airline Air Baltic as a home base and hub . It is also the home airport of the charter airline SmartLynx Airlines and the cargo airline RAF Avia . The low-cost airline Wizz Air also operates a base at Riga Airport.
In 2019, the following destinations will be served in the German-speaking area:
- airBaltic flies to Berlin-Tegel , Düsseldorf , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , Munich , Salzburg , Stuttgart , Vienna and Zurich .
- Lufthansa flies to Frankfurt am Main.
- Ryanair flies to Berlin-Schönefeld , Frankfurt-Hahn and Cologne .
- Wizz Air flies to Dortmund .
Transport links
- Car : The airport is located 17 km west of the city near the Autoceļš A10 road and is connected to it by the 2.1 km long 1st-order state road .
- Bus : Line 22 (every 10–30 minutes; travel time to the city center: 30 minutes); Minibus (Rigas Minibusu Satiksme) 322
- Railway : A connection to the airport is planned as part of the Rail Baltica project . The airport train station is expected to open in 2022.
Web links
- Riga Airport website (Latvian, English, Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Terminal and territory plan. Riga-Airport.com, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Statistics. Riga-Airport.com, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ The new hub of the north . In: Fliegerrevue , June 2009, pp. 12–15.