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In June alone, 667,000 passengers used Riga Airport for their trips, which is 5 % more than a year earlier.

"The increase in the number of passengers has been facilitated by the wide and varied range of direct connections from Rīga, which is attractive not only to Latvians, but to all Baltic travellers. Rīga Airport is consistently the largest air traffic hub in the Baltics with 40 % of the total number of passengers served at all Baltic airports," said the release.

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