About us

RAF-AVIA is a Riga-based passenger and cargo airline founded in 1990. As one of the longest-operating aviation carriers in the Baltic region, the company provides scheduled flights and ad-hoc charter services across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. RAF-AVIA specializes in air freight transport, ACMI leasing, charter passenger flights, and flexible aviation solutions for commercial and government clients.

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Our operational advantage:

RAF-AVIA is a specialist airline — not a mass carrier — which creates operational resilience.

We guarantee:

  • 2 hours from contract signing to flight departure
  • 24/7 flight operations control center
  • Dedicated charter and operations departments for direct decision making
  • Direct stream of client-OCC communication

Our fleet:

SAAB 340A Passenger:

Passenger carrying capacity: 34 seats

Max cargo: 950kg

Total cargo volume: 6,8m3

Max payload: 3700kg

Maximum range: 2100km

Range at average payload: 1400km

Range at maximum payload: 555km

Maximum payload at maximum range: 2200kg

Cruising speed: 283 KTS

Runway performance: 1280m on paved runway

Service ceiling: 25000ft

Fuel efficiency: 540 kg/hr

SAAB 340A Cargo:

Max payload: 3700kg

Maximum range: 2100km

Maximum payload at maximum range: 2200kg

Range at maximum payload: 875km

Total usable volume: 35,8m3

Door size: 135cm (W) x 130cm (H)

Cargo hold: 1110cm (L) x 160cm (W) x 175cm (H)

Cruising speed: 283 KTS

Runway performance: 1280m on paved runway

Service ceiling: 25000ft

Fuel efficiency: 540 kg/hr

For more information please wisit our Cargo Flights and Passenger fights webpages.

Our safety culture:

Safety at RAF-AVIA is not presented as a slogan but as a working discipline embedded into daily operations.

Every flight begins with operational preparation involving dispatch, engineering and crew briefing — not only regulatory compliance but operational judgement. Engineers who maintain the aircraft work alongside the flight crews who operate them, ensuring shared responsibility rather than separated departments.

As RAF-AVIA operates specialised flights — night cargo, remote airports, carriage of dangerous goods — operational conservatism is built into decision making:

  • maintenance decisions are made locally, not remotely outsourced

  • continuous technical monitoring between flights

  • experience-based operational planning rather than automated scheduling

The result is a safety record built over decades: no major accidents, no serious incidents, and long-term trust from logistics operators.

Our safety philosophy is simple:

Reliability is the outcome of discipline repeated every day.