Charter airlines

2017 was good for Bulgarian aviation, with a significant increase of the passengers transported by about 18 per cent. A total of 11,500 thousand passengers were transported by regular and charter flights to and from Bulgaria during the past year.

Over the next nine years, another 256 million leva will be invested in the airports in Burgas and Varna. During the first ten years the concession company has invested BGN 350 million, as a result of which the two airports on the coast have new terminals, renewed infrastructure, computer and communication systems.

Millions of people across Turkey have started to hit the roads during a 10-day public holiday for the Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) and Victory Day, which starts late on Aug. 25 and ends on Sept. 3.

In many tourism resorts, hotel occupancy rates have hit 100 percent.

Eight hours - a new record for flight from Sofia to Burgas for dozens of Bulgarian air passengers on Saturday, reported bTV .

People, including small children, have spent hours in the metropolitan airport and they didn't know when they would fly. After several times their flight had been postponed, they finally had to wait for the plane from Milan, which was also arriving late.

A bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax forced a passenger plane en route from Warsaw to Egypt to make an emergency landing in Bulgaria on Nov. 19, the operator of the aircraft said. 

The Airbus A320 landed just before dawn in the Black Sea city of Burgas, where authorities said all 161 passengers and crew were evacuated safely. 

Polish airline Small Planet has sent out another plane to transport passengers of its aircraft which made an emergency landing in Bulgaria's Burgas over a bomb threat on Thursday morning, Sofia-based Focus news agency reported.

It was not immediately clear when the second plane will arrive, according to a spokesperson of Burgas Airport, Focus said.

Bulgaria's government has tasked Bulgarian airline BH Air with conducting Sofia- Kolkata -Sofia flights.

The flight is envisaged in an existing agreement between the Bulgarian and Indian governments, according to the press office of the government.

The airline won the right to offer this service after wining a tender.

Eight suspects were handed jail sentences, including senior managers and high-ranking civil aviation officials, while 12 others were acquitted Jan. 6 in a trial into the crash of a passenger plane in the southern province of Isparta in 2007 that killed 57 people.

Bulgarian airline BH Air will operate an international flight Sofia - Kuala Lumpur - Sofia, according to a decision of the caretaker government.

Bulgarian airline BH Air could launch direct flights to the United States next spring  – 16 years after national carrier Balkan Airlines made its last flight to New York.

BH Air could launch direct flights from Sofia to New York and Chicago with bookings to be launched this autumn, 24 Chasa daily has reported.