This is a list of largest airports in the Baltic states in terms of total number of passengers per year. It includes all airports in the Baltic states with commercial regular traffic as of 2010.
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The term Baltic states (also Baltics, Baltic nations or Baltic countries) refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (from north to south);
| Rank | Country | City | Airport | Code (IATA/ICAO) |
Passengers (2010) |
Change 2009–2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Latvia | Riga | Riga International Airport | RIX/EVRA | 4,663,692 | +14,7 % |
| 2. | Estonia | Tallinn | Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport | TLL/EETN | 1,384,831 | +2,9 % |
| 3. | Lithuania | Vilnius | Vilnius International Airport | VNO/EYVI | 1,373,859 | +4,9 % |
| 4. | Lithuania | Kaunas | Kaunas International Airport | KUN/EYKA | 809,732 | +77,3% |
| 5. | Lithuania | Palanga | Palanga International Airport | PLQ/EYPA | 102,528 | -2,0% |
| 6. | Estonia | Tartu | Tartu Airport | TAY/EETU | 23,504 | +142,1% |
| 7. | Estonia | Kuressaare | Kuressaare Airport | URE/EEKE | 19,702 | +0.9% |
| 8. | Estonia | Kärdla | Kärdla Airport | KDL/EEKA | 10,551 | +14,0% |
| 9. | Estonia | Pärnu | Pärnu Airport | EPU/EEPU | 5,148 | +27,9% |
| 10. | Estonia | Ruhnu | Ruhnu Airfield | ---/EERU | 3,086 | -8,5% |
| 11. | Estonia | Kihnu | Kihnu Airfield | ---/EEKU | 2,215 | +46,4% |
| Rank | Country | City | Airport | Code (IATA/ICAO) |
Passengers (2010) |
Change 2009–2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Latvia | Riga | Riga International Airport | RIX/EVRA | 4,066,854 | +10,2 % |
| 2. | Estonia | Tallinn | Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport | TLL/EETN | 1,346,236 | -25,7 % |
| 3. | Lithuania | Vilnius | Vilnius International Airport | VNO/EYVI | 1,308,632 | -36,1 % |
| 4. | Lithuania | Kaunas | Kaunas International Airport | KUN/EYKA | 456,698 | +11,4% |
| 5. | Lithuania | Palanga | Palanga International Airport | PLQ/EYPA | 104,602 | +3.0% |
| 6. | Estonia | Kuressaare | Kuressaare Airport | URE/EEKE | 19,519 | -17,8% |
| 7. | Estonia | Tartu | Tartu Airport | TAY/EETU | 9,707 | +1075,2% |
| 8. | Estonia | Kärdla | Kärdla Airport | KDL/EEKA | 9,255 | -11,5% |
| 9. | Estonia | Pärnu | Pärnu Airport | EPU/EEPU | 4,025 | +62,6% |
| 10. | Estonia | Ruhnu | Ruhnu Airfield | ---/EERU | 3,373 | +73,4% |
| 11. | Estonia | Kihnu | Kihnu Airfield | ---/EEKU | 1,513 | +74,5% |
Busiest nonstop air routes within and to/from the Baltic States based on total annually carried passengers on each route.
The routes ranked no 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 17 and 27 includes the following airports:
| Rank | City 1 | City 2 | Passengers (2010) | Change 2009-2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Riga | London | 342,448 | +5.1% |
| 2. | Riga | Helsinki | 229,804 | +32.2% |
| 3. | Riga | Stockholm | 222,922 | -7.1% |
| 4. | Kaunas | London | 196,920 | -10.4% |
| 5. | Riga | Moscow | 182,450 | +33.7% |
| 6. | Riga | Frankfurt | 181,212 | +32.9% |
| 7. | Riga | Oslo | 180,094 | +9.1% |
| 8. | Riga | Vilnius | 156,679 | -18.3% |
| 9. | Riga | Brussels | 151,081 | +84.5% |
| 10. | Riga | Dublin | 150,655 | +5.6% |
| 11. | Riga | Tallinn | 150,024 | -3.0% |
| 12. | Vilnius | Copenhagen | 148,005 | +31.4% |
| 13. | Tallinn | Helsinki | 147,945 | -1.0% |
| 14. | Tallinn | Copenhagen | 140,997 | -1.0% |
| 15. | Riga | Copenhagen | 137,259 | +3.7% |
| 16. | Riga | Berlin | 133,813 | -9.2% |
| 17. | Riga | Milan | 129,533 | -3.3% |
| 18. | Tallinn | Stockholm | 115,046 | +1.9% |
| 19. | Riga | Istanbul | 109,594 | +13.5% |
| 20. | Vilnius | Frankfurt | 103,102 | +7.0% |
| 21. | Kaunas | Dublin | 90,468 | +9.0% |
| 22. | Riga | Kiev | 87,292 | +30.6% |
| 23. | Riga | Tampere | 86,722 | -1.4% |
| 24. | Tallinn | Oslo | 86,019 | -3.0% |
| 25. | Riga | Paris | 85,789 | +0.7% |
| 26. | Riga | Barcelona | 84,701 | +24.6% |
| 27. | Tallinn | London | 84,329 | -15.6% |
| 28. | Riga | Rome | 81,784 | +4.1% |
| 29. | Vilnius | Dublin | 79,235 | +5.7% |
| 30. | Tallinn | Frankfurt | 73,929 | +9.2% |
The routes ranked no 1, 2, 3, 13, 14 and 20 includes the following airports:
| Rank | City 1 | City 2 | Passengers (2009) | Change 2008-2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Riga | London | 325,810 | +12.4% |
| 2. | Riga | Stockholm | 239,888 | +18.1% |
| 3. | Kaunas | London | 219,771 | +23.9% |
| 4. | Riga | Vilnius | 191,864 | +121.7% |
| 5. | Riga | Helsinki | 173,846 | +23.2% |
| 6. | Riga | Oslo | 165,081 | +18.9% |
| 7. | Riga | Tallinn | 154,742 | +98.2% |
| 8. | Tallinn | Helsinki | 149,390 | -14.0% |
| 9. | Riga | Berlin | 147,369 | +8.5% |
| 10. | Riga | Dublin | 142,731 | -30.7% |
| 11. | Tallinn | Copenhagen | 142,449 | -2.9% |
| 12. | Riga | Moscow | 136,508 | +30.8% |
| 13. | Riga | Frankfurt | 136,358 | +11.9% |
| 14. | Riga | Milan | 133,949 | +19.9% |
| 15. | Riga | Copenhagen | 132,398 | -21.3% |
| 16. | Vilnius | Prague | 113,824 | +24.0% |
| 17. | Tallinn | Stockholm | 112,861 | -25.5% |
| 18. | Vilnius | Copenhagen | 112,651 | -30.1% |
| 19. | Riga | Amsterdam | 106,998 | +3.8% |
| 20. | Tallinn | London | 99,864 | -36.5% |
| 21. | Riga | Istanbul | 96,556 | +29.8% |
| 22. | Vilnius | Frankfurt | 96,325 | -9.1% |
| 23. | Tallinn | Oslo | 88,717 | -14.9% |
| 24. | Riga | Tampere | 87,975 | +5.6% |
| 25. | Riga | Paris | 85,198 | +40.9% |
| 26. | Kaunas | Dublin | 83,000 | -28.9% |
| 27. | Riga | Brussels | 82,280 | +24.8% |
| 28. | Riga | Rome | 78,529 | +79,3% |
| 29. | Vilnius | Helsinki | 76,184 | -26.9% |
| 30. | Vilnius | Dublin | 74,977 | -23.3% |