The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
EMA Derby and Nottingham to RIX Riga
East Midlands Airport, the United Kingdom, to Riga International, Latvia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,670 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 38m
- Door to door
- 9h 23m
What EMA to RIX looks like
The EMA to RIX sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Derby and Nottingham EMA to Riga RIX is a medium haul sector of 1,670 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,670 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 38m.
Derby and Nottingham EMA is a large airport in the network held here, 91 scheduled destinations and 74.6 departures a day. Riga RIX has 90 destinations and 102.8 departures a day.
Riga is 2 hours ahead of Derby and Nottingham all year.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on EMA to RIX from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| EMA to RIX | 0.29 | 2 | Ryanair |
| RIX to EMA | 0.29 | 2 | Ryanair |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 4.1 departures a week on EMA to RIX, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 38m block time on EMA to RIX. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to EMA | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At EMA before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| EMA to RIX in the air, estimated | 158 min | 7h 08m |
| Formalities at RIX | 90 min | 8h 38m |
| Delivery run in Riga | 45 min | 9h 23m |
| Door to door | 563 min | 9h 23m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for EMA to RIX is 9h 23m.
A courier who leaves Derby and Nottingham at 09:00 local is on the ground in Riga at about 13:38 local and at the door by 15:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Riga, the last useful departure from Derby and Nottingham is around 11:07 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 35 of them join EMA to RIX.
| Connecting at | EMA to hub, flights a day | Hub to RIX, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester MAN | 1 | 0.57 | 1,789 | 4h 48m |
| Edinburgh EDI | 1.57 | 0.57 | 2,044 | 4h 56m |
| Krakow KRK | 0.86 | 0.86 | 2,299 | 5h 11m |
| Dublin DUB | 2.57 | 0.86 | 2,279 | 5h 14m |
| Paris CDG | 0.57 | 1.71 | 2,176 | 5h 23m |
| Bergamo BGY | 0.57 | 0.71 | 2,717 | 5h 43m |
35 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Manchester MAN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through MAN the routing covers 1,789 km against the 1,670 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 48m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 10m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Edinburgh EDI at 4h 56m and Krakow KRK at 5h 11m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Derby and Nottingham, Birmingham BHX is 51 km away by great circle and carries 139 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through EMA or RIX. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Rolls-Royce, DerbyCivil large engine assembly and test. An engine on wing that is grounded is an aircraft grounded. Logistics through Derby and Nottingham EMA.
Plan Derby and Nottingham to Riga yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for EMA to RIX in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The EMA airport entry
- The RIX airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Latvia
- The written lane, London to Derby
- The route calculator
More pairs through EMA and RIX: Dublin to Derby and Nottingham, Barcelona to Derby and Nottingham, Derby and Nottingham to Manchester, Copenhagen to Derby and Nottingham, Brussels to Derby and Nottingham, Berlin to Derby and Nottingham, Derby and Nottingham to Prague, Derby and Nottingham to Stuttgart.