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The number of passengers handled by the airport in July rose by 16.3% year-on-year to 647,117. In total in the first seven months of this year the airport served 3.4 million passengers, up 10.1% year-on-year.

The majority or 74.1% of passengers chose full-service companies, and 25.9% of passengers were served by low-cost airlines.

Nearly 998,500 of passengers used Riga Airport as an international transfer hub, as the number of transit passengers grew by 18.2% year-on-year to 31% of the total number of air passengers arriving at Riga Airport.

In the first seven months of this year cargos served by the airport rose by 9.7%. This has been promoted by Turkish Cargo opening the first regular Baltic route from Istanbul and transportation of cargos to and from Afghanistan in relation to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force mission.

The number of flights served by the airport rose by 6.7% to 41,810 in the first seven months of this year, and 60.6% of these flights were performed by national airline airBaltic.

During the summer season international airport Riga offers flights to 89 destinations across the world. Flights are ensured by 17 airlines - airBaltic, Ryanair, WizzAir, Aeroflot, SAS, Finnair, Norwegian Air Shuttle, Lufthansa, LOT Polish Airlines, Utair, Turkish Airlines, Ukraine International Airlines, RusLine, Uzbekistan Airways, Belavia, Ellinair and Smartlynx Airlines.

Riga International Airport is the largest air traffic hub in the Baltic states.

In 2016, Riga Airport handled 5.6 million passengers, or nearly 45% of all air passengers in the Baltic states.