Increase in passenger traffic at Riga Airport in 2014
Riga International Airport welcomed 4.8 million passengers in 2014, 0.4% travellers more than in the previous year. This year, several new airlines will start operations at the airport while the existing ones will increase the number of their destinations.
The travellers’ most popular destinations in 2014 were London, Moscow, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Oslo. In comparison with the year 2013, a substantial rise in the number of passengers was achieved by the airlines Wizz Air (+ 51%), Lufthansa (+18%) and Norwegian Air Shuttle (+15%).
Transfer/transit passengers comprised 29% of the total number of passengers handled last year and their most frequently chosen destinations via Riga Airport were Tallinn, Vilnius, Helsinki, Moscow and Stockholm.
For charter flights, the most attractive destinations were Antalya, as well as Heraklion, Hurghada and Burgas.
This year, several new airlines are planning to come to the airport (Turkmenistan Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines, Swiss International Airlines), and new flights are to be launched. The airline Wizz Air this spring intends to expand its operations in Riga by basing another aircraft and opening three new destinations.
In 2014, Riga International Airport handled almost 66 thousand aircraft and 33 thousand tons of cargo. Twelve new destinations were opened from Riga Airport and operations were commenced by Brussels Airlines.