RIX Riga

How deep the RIX board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from RIX. This reads the same 90 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 69of the 90 destinations are flown by one airline
• 60destinations run less than once a day
• 5destinations have four or more departures a day
• 78.9%of the destinations name airBaltic, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at RIX

20 airlines appear on the RIX board and they do not hold it evenly. airBaltic is on 71 of the 90 destinations, 78.9 per cent of them, and on 53 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 88.5 of the 102.8 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Ryanair on 20 destinations. 16 of the 20 airlines at RIX appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 71 of the 90 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an RIX sector is usually another airBaltic aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at RIX than the destination count does.

How much of the RIX board is daily

Of the 90 destinations, 30 are flown at least once a day and 60 are not, 7 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the RIX board is flown 4 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: RIX to Wrocław (WRO) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 30 of the 102.8 departures a day, 29.2 per cent of the whole board. With 66.7 per cent of the 90 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Amman AMM	Jordan	airBaltic	1	2,951	the pair page
Faro FAO	Portugal	airBaltic	1	3,229	plan this
Lamezia Terme SUF	Italy	airBaltic	1	2,082	plan this
Olbia OLB	Italy	airBaltic	1	2,062	plan this
Pátrai GPA	Greece	airBaltic	1	2,096	plan this
Stavanger SVG	Norway	airBaltic	1	1,101	the pair page
Wrocław WRO	Poland	airBaltic	1	795	plan this
Batumi BUS	Georgia	airBaltic	2	2,116	plan this
Belgrade BEG	Serbia	airBaltic	2	1,370	plan this
Bergen BGO	Norway	Norwegian Air Shuttle	2	1,144	plan this

The ten destinations out of RIX where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 42 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from RIX

The desk holds the return direction for 74 of the 90 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into RIX runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Antalya (AYT) at 2.3 out a day against 1.4 back, Burgas (BOJ) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back and Pisa (PSA) at 0.43 out a day against 0.29 back.

It runs the other way as well: Bergen (BGO) files 0.57 a day back into RIX against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at RIX

RIX keeps Europe/Riga time, an hour behind Dubai in summer and two hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at RIX, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at RIX and still make a departure the same day.

The night at RIX

12 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Stockholm (ARN) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from RIX that lands inside it leaves around 21:49, on a modelled block of 1h 11m. Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from RIX that lands inside it leaves around 21:48, on a modelled block of 2h 12m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from RIX that lands inside it leaves around 21:53, on a modelled block of 2h 07m. Those three departure times out of RIX are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where RIX turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Latvia country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 7 airport pair pages that start or end at RIX, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Riga to Helsinki (HEL), Riga to Stockholm (ARN) and Riga to Oslo (OSL).

Nine courier postings name RIX as the airport a courier here flies from: Riga, Šiauliai and Panevėžys.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with RIX already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 90 destinations above.