The sector is held by airBaltic.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
RIX Riga to AMM Amman
Riga International, Latvia, to Queen Alia International, Jordan. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 2,951 km
- Block, estimated
- 4h 16m
- Door to door
- 11h 01m
What RIX to AMM looks like
The RIX to AMM sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Riga RIX to Amman AMM is a medium haul sector of 2,951 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,951 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 4h 16m.
Riga RIX is a large airport in the network held here, 90 scheduled destinations and 102.8 departures a day. Amman AMM has 72 destinations and 131.4 departures a day.
Amman runs one hour ahead of Riga in January and no time shift at all in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Europe and the Middle East, a corridor where the site already publishes 66 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on RIX to AMM from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIX to AMM | 0.14 | 1 | airBaltic |
| AMM to RIX | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, airBaltic, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg AMM to RIX carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once 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 1 departure a week on RIX to AMM, 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 4h 16m block time on RIX to AMM. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to RIX | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At RIX before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| RIX to AMM in the air, estimated | 256 min | 8h 46m |
| Formalities at AMM | 90 min | 10h 16m |
| Delivery run in Amman | 45 min | 11h 01m |
| Door to door | 661 min | 11h 01m |
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 RIX to AMM is 11h 01m.
A courier who leaves Riga at 09:00 local is on the ground in Amman at about 14:16 local and at the door by 16:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Amman, the last useful departure from Riga is around 10:29 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. 27 of them join RIX to AMM.
| Connecting at | RIX to hub, flights a day | Hub to AMM, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larnaca LCA | 0.57 | 1.14 | 2,971 | 5h 53m |
| Bucharest OTP | 0.71 | 0.71 | 3,048 | 6h 09m |
| Antalya AYT | 2.29 | 2.14 | 3,031 | 6h 16m |
| Istanbul IST | 2.86 | 6.14 | 3,016 | 6h 21m |
| Athens ATH | 0.71 | 1.86 | 3,408 | 6h 36m |
| Vienna VIE | 1.57 | 0.57 | 3,547 | 6h 47m |
27 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Larnaca LCA, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through LCA the routing covers 2,971 km against the 2,951 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 53m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 37m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bucharest OTP at 6h 09m and Antalya AYT at 6h 16m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Amman, Tel Aviv TLV is 109 km away by great circle and carries 110 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Riga to Amman 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 RIX to AMM 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 RIX airport entry
- The AMM airport entry
- Hand carry into Latvia
- Hand carry into Jordan
- The written lane, Amman to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Sharjah to Amman
- The route calculator
More pairs through RIX and AMM: Amman to Istanbul, Madrid to Amman, Amman to Dubai, Amman to Cairo, Milan to Amman, Berlin to Amman, Zurich to Amman, Vienna to Amman.