Riga airport

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Riga International Airport
Rīgas Starptautiskā Lidosta
Riga Airport Logo.svg
Riga Airport 2016.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code EVRA
IATA code RIX
Coordinates

56 ° 55 '25 "  N , 23 ° 58' 16"  E Coordinates: 56 ° 55 '25 "  N , 23 ° 58' 16"  E

Height above MSL 10 m (33  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 13 km southwest of Riga
Street P133
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

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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.

The growth in the number of passengers at Riga Airport
(× 1000 pax)
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
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
Check-in counters at Riga Airport

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:

Transport links

Web links

Commons : Riga International Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Terminal and territory plan. Riga-Airport.com, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  2. a b c Statistics. Riga-Airport.com, accessed March 5, 2020 .
  3. The new hub of the north . In: Fliegerrevue , June 2009, pp. 12–15.