Austrian Airlines added seasonal flights between Vienna and Burgas in Bulgaria to its network on Thursday 19 June. The 1,055-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly, on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays with a mix of E195 and A320 aircraft. The carrier will face stiff competition from LCCs on the route, with both Ryanair and Wizz Air […]
June 30, 2025 | Latest Route News +
Two airports serve the ever-popular Black Sea area of Bulgaria: Varna and Burgas. Located around 120 kilometres south of Varna, Burgas was the larger of the pair in 2022 – just as it has been in most years. It welcomed 1.64 million passengers against 1.48 million for Varna. Curiously, the reverse was true of the […]
August 24, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
On Sunday 15 August a new domestic service in Bulgaria was launched by GullivAir between Sofia and Burgas. The inaugural service on the 340-kilometre route (flight number G2 211, operated by an ATR 72-600 registration LZ-DAJ) departed Sofia at 18:05 local time and arrived in Burgas 52 minutes later at 18:57 with 36 passengers on […]
August 17, 2021 | Latest Route News +
On Sunday 27 June, easyJet operated its first ever flight to the Bulgarian Black Sea resort of Burgas. The flight originated in Berlin and will operate 2-weekly (Fridays and Sundays) during the rest of the summer. Competition on the route comes from German carrier Sundair, which also serves the route 2-weekly (on Mondays and Wednesdays). […]
June 30, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air on 10 June opened another new base, this time a seasonal one in Burgas, located on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. The ULCC first began service to the airport in May 2006 from London LTN, followed a month later by flights from Budapest. The following June flights from two Polish bases, Katowice and Warsaw […]