Riga International Airport

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Riga Airport ( lett Starptautiskā lidosta " Rīga ", " RIX IATA, ICAO EVRA ) is a Latvian airport in the metropolitan area of the capital Riga.

Importance

The Airport is the most important of the three airports in the country, and the most important in the Baltics. It was opened in October 1974 under the sovereignty of Aeroflot. After Latvia's independence in the early 1990s, he went on in Latvian owned, with growth in passenger traffic was modest, despite the extensive modernization between 1993 and 2001 due to high usage charges up to the year 2004. Thus, the number of passengers in 1995 was 504,000 and in 2003 712,000. After cutting prices by 60 % the number of passengers rose sharply. By 2005 it was already at 1.9 million, and in 2008 reached 3.69 million, 4.07 million in 2009 already.

Airlines and destinations

2013 following destinations are served in the German language: Lufthansa flies to Frankfurt, the Latvian Air Baltic to Berlin -Tegel, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Munich, Vienna and Zurich and Ryanair to Bremen, Frankfurt -Hahn and Weeze.

Transport links

• Car: The airport is 17 km west of the city near the main state road and is connected to this first by the 2.1 km long state highway order.
• Bus: Line 22 ( every 10-30 min; transfer 30 min).