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Riga International Airport has direct flights to/from various European cities (London, Madrid, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Oslo, etc), Middle East (Beirut, Tel Aviv, Dubai), CIS (Moscow, Kiev, Minsk) as well as North America (New York City).
Inexpensive national airline: Air Baltic. There are also other low-cost carriers: Ryanair and WizzAir. You can take also Ryanair flight to Kaunas in Lithuania but it might be not so easy to get from Kaunas to Riga by public transport.
There are bus nr 22 (0.70 LVL) and taxi (<10 LVL) connections to city centre. Red taxis operate from the airport to the city center. The green Baltic Taxi operates from the airport to the city center for a flat fee of 9 LVL if purchasing a voucher from the Baltic Taxi booth inside the airport; the same voucher costs 8 LVL if purchased from flight attendants on board an Air Baltic flight (credit cards accepted). Journey times depend on traffic. Airport operates 24h hours.
If departing in the morning, allow yourself plenty of time to proceed through passport control as it can get crowded.
By train
SJSC Latvian Railways, 67216664, 67233397.
• Trains to Riga terminal are available from:
o Moscow or Saint Petersburg, Russia, daily overnight, stops at Rezekne and Jekabpils.
• Train to Daugavpils and Rezekne are available from:
o Saint Petersburg, Russia, daily overnight Saint Petersburg - Vilnius service
o Vilnius, Lithuania, daily
If you travel by train via Daugavpils to connect to Riga you might need to stay in Daugavpils overnight for the connection. The same applies if you are going opposite direction.
By car
Major "Via Baltica" road links Warsaw, Poland through Kaunas, Lithuania, crosses Riga, Latvia and goes to Tallinn, Estonia. If you have a driver's
