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Saturday, 20.04.2024, 02:25
Riga Airport to expand its security controls area
Last year,
Riga International Airport reached a new passenger traffic record, handling 5.4
mln passengers and also this year the Airport expects to have passenger growth.
Already in the summer season, new flights will be opened to nine destinations.
The expanded security controls area will make it possible to serve more
passengers, thus increasing service speed and quality.
Security
controls area expansion works will take place from 13 February to 14 March.
During this time, there will be changes in the location of security
checkpoints: one checkpoint will be in its previous location in Departures
Sector E, but the other checkpoint – in the northern part of the Airport in
Departures Sector C. Passengers
regardless of their flight destination will be able to use both checkpoints. Fast
Track checkpoint will remain in Sector E.
To guide
passengers, there will be signs and posters with information on the location of
security controls. Information can also be obtained at the Information Centre
and from the Airport employees. To settle all the pre-flight formalities and
pass through security control, passengers are kindly requested to arrive at the
Airport at least 2.5 hours before their flight.
Expansion
of the security controls area is one of the measures to be taken by Riga
Airport to create more comfortable conditions for passengers before the
ambitious Airport terminal expansion project is implemented. Already at the
beginning of this year, new check-in counters were opened in the Airport, while
in the second half of the year it is planned to set up self-service baggage
drop-off lines.
As reported
before, the next stage of the Airport terminal development foresees expansion
of the passenger check-in hall, baggage claim and sorting areas, security
controls area, as well as construction of a multi-storey car park and
connection to the newly built "Rail Baltica" Riga Airport station,
which should be completed by 2022.
Riga International Airport is the largest air traffic hub in the
Baltics, servicing 45% of the air passengers in the Baltic States. The 20
airlines operating at Riga Airport offer 60 destinations in the winter season
and 80 in the summer season.