Bulgaria Air

Nearly 200 Bulgarians were blocked at Rome's Ciampino Airport after a flight to Sofia to a low-budget airline was canceled.

"With our money, we were able to buy tickets for tomorrow. We will travel by Bulgaria Air, Ognian Manolev, one of the other passengers in the Italian capital, said "Hello, Bulgaria".

Vasil Dimitrov is a young Bulgarian pilot who started his professional career as early as 19 years.

For 5 years Vasil was a co-pilot of the Airbus A320 passenger airplane.

He has almost 5000 flying hours, which ranks him among the youngest civil aviatiors in Bulgaria.

The most romantic holiday of the year "Valentine's Day" is coming and the national carrier "Bulgaria Air" has prepared a special promotion for its passengers.

The first regular scheduled flight Sofia - Odessa - Sofia, where Bulgaria Air is assigned, will be executed tomorrow.

Every week - on Fridays and Sundays - flights will take place in both directions.

The national carrier "Bulgaria Air" will meet the Christmas and New Year holidays with promotional prices of their tickets to and from all direct destinations.

The campaign was launched on December 15 and will continue until December 29 inclusive.

Within the 15-day Christmas promotion, one-way air tickets from Sofia to Rome, Milan and Athens will be at the lowest prices.

From December 10 until the end of the winter season, the national carrier Bulgaria Air will operate from and to another Milan airport - Linate Central Airport, reports dnes.bg. 

Linate Airport is in close proximity to Milan - located about 7 km from the city center and offers many different transportation options, the airline reports.

There was an emergency landing this morning at Sofia Airport. Shortly after taking off, Bulgaria Air's plane has returned, Nova TV reported.

The machine took off this morning at 07:00 for Amsterdam. But the plane had to come back due to a technical problem. The company has provided another airplane for the passengers. The new departure was scheduled for 14:00.

All passengers traveling with Bulgaria Air, have waited  for more than 15 hours at Sofia Airport to fly to Frankfurt. Flight FB437A was supposed to fly away yesterday at 18:00, but it actually that happened after 11:30 today, reported bTV. 

There are no blocked passengers at Sofia Airport, Bulgaria's national air carrier "Bulgaria Air".  The company said the Sofia-Rome flight would be delayed by just over 4 hours. There is a delay because the flight from Sofia to Frankfurt on 6 July was redirected to land in Munich due to bad weather conditions.

Today Sofia Airport is blocked by passengers due to delayed flights of Bulgaria Air. This morning the flights to Italy from 7am are canceled and currently it is said they will fly as early as 11am.