On 1st January 2012 a new procedure will be introduced regarding the collection of the charge on the security measures implemented at the airport.

Airport will collect the security charge instead of RYANAIR for conducting security checks of the airline’s passengers and their baggage as well as for providing other security-related services.

Those RYANAIR passengers who buy their tickets starting from 1st January 2012 before departure will have to pay the security charge of 7 euros or 4.92 lats. The payment can be made:

• While checking in for the flight at Riga Airport (by bank card);
• At RYANAIR ticket office of Riga Airport (by cash or bank card);
• At the airport services office „Welcome to Riga!” (Arrivals Sector E – by cash or bank card).

Payments will be accepted in lats only. In order to avoid delays the administration of Riga International Airport kindly requests RYANAIR passengers to arrive at the airport for checking in and payment of the security charge at least two and a half hours before departure.

The security charge will not be collected from transit and transfer passengers and the passengers who are under 2 years of age. Those passengers who have bought their air tickets by 31 December 2011 are also released from the security charge. In this case, the passenger at the security check must show the purchase date of the air ticket by presenting to the officer the printout of the ticket booking confirmation received from RYANAIR by e-mail.