The sector is held by airBaltic.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
RIX Riga to TBS Tbilisi
Riga International, Latvia, to Tbilisi International, Georgia. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 2,260 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 23m
- Door to door
- 10h 08m
What RIX to TBS looks like
The RIX to TBS sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Riga RIX to Tbilisi TBS is a medium haul sector of 2,260 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,260 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 23m.
Riga RIX is a large airport in the network held here, 90 scheduled destinations and 102.8 departures a day. Tbilisi TBS has 72 destinations and 84 departures a day.
Tbilisi runs 2 hours ahead of Riga in January and one hour ahead in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
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 RIX to TBS from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIX to TBS | 0.57 | 4 | airBaltic |
| TBS to RIX | 0.71 | 5 | airBaltic |
One carrier holds the sector, airBaltic, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 9 departures a week on RIX to TBS, 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 3h 23m block time on RIX to TBS. 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 TBS in the air, estimated | 203 min | 7h 53m |
| Formalities at TBS | 90 min | 9h 23m |
| Delivery run in Tbilisi | 45 min | 10h 08m |
| Door to door | 608 min | 10h 08m |
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 TBS is 10h 08m.
A courier who leaves Riga at 09:00 local is on the ground in Tbilisi at about 14:23 local and at the door by 16:38 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Tbilisi, the last useful departure from Riga is around 10:22 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. 24 of them join RIX to TBS.
| Connecting at | RIX to hub, flights a day | Hub to TBS, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Warsaw WAW | 3.86 | 1.14 | 2,711 | 5h 50m |
| Istanbul IST | 2.86 | 4.71 | 3,122 | 6h 29m |
| Vienna VIE | 1.57 | 1 | 3,432 | 6h 38m |
| Prague PRG | 1.43 | 0.57 | 3,524 | 6h 45m |
| Larnaca LCA | 0.57 | 1.14 | 3,800 | 6h 51m |
| Antalya AYT | 2.29 | 2 | 3,611 | 6h 52m |
24 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Warsaw WAW, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through WAW the routing covers 2,711 km against the 2,260 km nonstop track and takes about 5h 50m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 27m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Istanbul IST at 6h 29m and Vienna VIE at 6h 38m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Tbilisi, Yerevan EVN is 176 km away by great circle and carries 82 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Riga to Tbilisi 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 TBS 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 TBS airport entry
- Hand carry into Latvia
- Hand carry into Georgia
- The written lane, Sharjah to Tbilisi
- The route calculator
More pairs through RIX and TBS: Helsinki to Riga, Riga to Stockholm, Oslo to Riga, Derby and Nottingham to Riga, Riga to Amman, Stavanger to Riga, Dubai to Tbilisi, Tbilisi to Tel Aviv.