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Friday, 15.11.2024, 23:59
Riga Airport included on list of world's 100 busiest airports for the first time
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With 66,427 seats that were available in international outgoing flights from RIGA on the week from August 24 to August 30, Rigs placed 98th among the world's busiest airlines.
"Making it to the list of 100 airports with the highest seats capacity for international departures is a big step forward for Riga International Airport. First of all, not only it shows the potential of Riga as a leisure and business tourism destination, but also the successful performance of Riga Airport as a regional transit hub," said Chairman of the Board of Riga International Airport Krisjanis Peters.
"Also, we are showing internationally that we have the necessary infrastructure and qualified and professional staff to service large volume traffic. Secondly, being included in the OAG TOP100 is more proof of that we are successfully moving towards achieving our goal – becoming the central airline of the Baltic Sea region," Peters added.
Already for several years, London Heathrow Airport has remained the leader; it serves over 800,000 international passengers weekly. It is followed by Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris and the Frankfurt International Airport. TOP5 is concluded by the Hong Kong International Airport and the Dubai International Airport in the United Arab Emirates.
Other airports in the Baltic and Nordic region airports included in TOP100 are Copenhagen as 24th, Stockholm – 44th, Helsinki – 50th and Oslo – 57th.
In August, Riga International Airport served 428,000 passengers or 8.9% more than in the same month last year, as airport representatives informed LETA.
In the first eight months of 2009, the airport served 2,679,369 passengers, registering a 9.7% increase in passenger volume year-on-year.
Currently, passengers from Riga International Airport can fly to 70 direct destinations. In 2009, ten new routes were opened: to Tromso (Norway), Palanga and Kaunas (Lithuania), Linkoping (Sweden), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Forli (Italy), Geneva (Switzerland), Tartu (Estonia), Turku (Finland) and Pskov (Russia).
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