Operational data on the airport performance showed that this April, more than 419 thousand passengers used Riga Airport; in turn, in the first four months of the year the airport serviced over 1.1 million passengers.
“The increase in the number of passengers in April is related to both new and renewed routes from Riga at the beginning of the summer season, as well as a higher flight frequency and good aircraft occupancy. People are using the opportunities offered by Riga, and we are pleased that we have even exceeded the optimistic forecast in terms of the passenger numbers,” says Laila Odina, Chairperson of the Board of Riga Airport.
In April, the airport handled 4,105 passenger aircraft and serviced 419.3 thousand passengers, 65% of the pre-pandemic period. 17% or 71.4 thousand passengers used Riga as a transit airport.
In April, Riga Airport handled 138 cargo aircraft and 1,540 tons of air cargo. Compared to both 2019 and 2021, this is a drop of almost 30%. The volume of air cargo handled in the first four months of the year increased by 1% as compared to the same period of the previous year but decreased by 8% as compared to the first four months of 2019.
In turn, the number of business, technical and other flights serviced in April increased by a quarter as compared to March 2019, with the airport servicing 322 such flights. In January-April, as compared to the same period in 2019, the number of business, technical and other flights increased by 86%. (BNN/Business World Magazine)
