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Nov 14, 2022 (newstodate): Latvia's Riga Airport is seeing its over-all passenger flows building up successfully after the Covid-19 pandemic.
   In October, Riga Airport handled 551,000 passengers, with the number of direct passengers exceeding 90 percent of the pre-pandemic figures.
   The number of direct travelers in October was only 8.5 percent behind the 2019 figures, with Riga Airport's recovery rate during this period thus overtaking the European average at 12 percent, according to ACI Europe.
   Formerly building on transfer and transit traffic to balance the limited size of the home market, the impact of the war in Ukraine is still noticeable in transit passenger numbers at Riga Airport. The total number of transit passengers is now down by 60 percent, compared to 2019.
   In 2021, transfer passengers accounted for 22 percent of the airport's total throughput - but in 2013 the proportion was as high as 50 percent.
   A large proportion of the airport's transfer traffic was earlier generated in the Russian and Belarus markets; in 2016, Russia alone accounted for 54 percent of all transfer passengers through Riga Airport, even rising to 57 percent in 2017.