In 1922-1926 Latvijas Gaisa Satiksmes Akciju Sabiedriba operated flights on Berlin – Königsberg – Kaunas (or Klaipėda / Mėmel) – Riga line.

From 1928, regular commercial flights of German-Soviet Deruluft linked Spilve with Berlin via Königsberg, Moscow via Smolensk and Leningrad via Tallinn.

From 1932 Polish LOT connected Spilve to Warsaw via Vilnius and to Helsinki via Tallinn.

After World War II and the Soviet re-occupation of Latvia in 1944 the airport was rebuilt as the hub for Aeroflot.

The terminal building completed in 1954, still remains as a notable example of Stalin's neoclassical architecture.