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Apr 23, 2020 (newstodate): Latvia's Riga Airport has called for state support to keep the company in a shape to turn on the heat again once the current coronavirus-crisis has been overcome.
   All scheduled passenger flights are stalled, leaving only occasional state-managed repatriation flights and cargo operations on the runway.
   In 2019, Riga Airport saw its passenger volumes up by 10.5 percent, y-o-y, to more than 7.8 million passengers, and the airport handled a total of 27,265 tonnes of cargo during January-December 2019, down 3.5 percent.
   Now, the scheduled cargo traffic consists of a weekly Atran Airlines Boeing 737-800BCF freighter flight between Moscow and Riga, and AN-26 flights to Riga by the Ukrainian cargo carrier Eleron from Kiev and Lviv.
   In this year's Q1, Riga Airport has seen its total cargo volumes down by 14.2 percent, y-o-y, to 5,621 tonnes with loads handled in March 2020 at the lowest with a drop by 33 percent to 1,526 tonnes.