Cologne Bonn Airport

The concessionaire company Fraport Twin Star Airport Management announced that Burgas Airport will kick off the active flight season with its first flight since Bulgaria's entry into the Schengen area by air, scheduled for the end of March.

Airport security personnel went on strike for the second time this week, this time affecting airports in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, reported DW. 

Ryanair on Nov. 5 announced its first flights ever from Bodrum Airport in Turkey—its 225th airport—and a new twice weekly service to Dublin, which will commence in May 2019, as part of its Summer 2019 schedule.

German authorities on Sept. 14 stopped a Turkish Airlines jet from taking off and searched it with sniffer dogs after Cologne airport received a threatening phone call, police said.

The 111 passengers were taken back off the Istanbul-bound flight, which had already been taxiing on the runway of Cologne-Bonn airport, and were taken back to a terminal in buses.

Sofia Airport has started offering two new seasonal destinations: to Lisbon, Portugal and Alicante, Spain.

Both routes to the Iberian Peninsula are operated by national carrier Bulgaria Air, the airport says on its website.

The route to the Portuguese capital city, served since April 28, will be operated once a week,on Thursday.