Bulgaria Air commenced flights between Sofia and Porto on Thursday 9 April. The 2,645-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly, on Thursdays and Sundays, with the A220-300 aircraft. The carrier faces no competition between the two cities. Flight FB565 departs Sofia at 18:15 local time, arriving in Porto at 20:35 local time. The return service, operating […]
April 27, 2026 | Latest Route News +
Air Haifa inaugurated seasonal flights between Haifa in Israel and Sofia on Wednesday 7 January. The 1,500-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with the ATR72-600 turboprop aircraft. The airline is the sole operator between the two cities. What they said Dana Rubin, VP of Customer Experience at Air Haifa, said: […]
January 15, 2026 | Latest Route News +
Bulgaria Air is the flag carrier of the Balkan country from which its name derives. It was the successor to Balkan Bulgarian, which ceased to exist in 2002. According to Planespotters.net, Bulgaria Air has 17 aircraft, not all of which are active. Its mixed fleet comprises five A220-300s, five A320s, four E190s, two A220-200s and […]
May 6, 2025 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Bulgaria became a member of the EU on 1 January 2007. The same day, neighbour Romania also became a member. Curiously, traffic had already doubled at the country’s main airport in Sofia between 2001 and 2006. In 2007 demand grew by more than 20% while the following year passenger numbers again increased by almost 20%. […]
March 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Bulgaria is the 10th largest country in the EU and has a population of just under seven million people. It is about half the size of neighbouring Romania and also shares a border with Greece, North Macedonia, Serbia and Turkey, as well as having a coast on the Black Sea. Its GDP per Capita is […]
September 20, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
SWISS added four new routes at the start of the summer season from its Zurich hub including Vilnius in Lithuania on Wednesday 30 March. The 1,410-kilometre sector will be flown 2-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays using a mix of SWISS’s own A220-100s and A220-300s as well as partner Helvetic’s E190s and E195s. No other carrier […]
April 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
GullivAir (IATA code G2) on Saturday 26 March began 2-weekly service between Sofia in Bulgaria and Skopje in North Macedonia. Flights on the relatively short 170-kilometre sector will operate every Monday and Saturday using the airline’s fleet of three ATR 72-600s. These two airports were last connected on a regular basis by Bulgaria Air between […]
March 29, 2022 | Latest Route News +
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 +