In May, Riga International Airport serviced 474,000 passengers or 66% of the pre-pandemic number, according to data available about the airport’s operations. Since the start of the year the airport has serviced 1.67 million passengers.
The percentage of direct passengers was 84%, whereas the percentage of transit passengers was 16%. A similar situation for direct and transit passengers was observed for the first five months, the airport reported.
Destinations in demand the most from Riga included London, Antalya, Helsinki, Oslo and Tallinn.
Nearly half or 48% of the serviced passengers or 228,000 were carried by airBaltic, followed by Ryanair with nearly 33% or 155,000 passengers.
Compared to May 2021, the airport’s number of passengers has increased nearly 5.6-fold.
The turnover of freight carried by aircraft remains affected by the war in Ukraine and global sanctions against Russia and Belarus. In May, the airport processed 1,533 tons of freight, down by a third from May 2019. (BNN/Business World Magazine)