Sofia Airport

5.2 kg of heroin was detained by customs officials from the department "Fight with drug trafficking" at the custom of Sofia Airport. Reported Novini.bg.

Wizz Air on July 21 celebrates the major milestone of opening its 28 base in Varna, Bulgaria, according to The Financial.

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.

Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov said the government will restart the concession procedure for Sofia Airport, FOCUS News Agency reported.

''The strategy for the airport concession remains unchanged, there is no reason for changes'', he said.

Additionally, the government expects the resubmission of a bill for concessions which has been rejected by President Rumen Radev.

The passengers who have passed via Sofia Airport in March 2017 exceeded 500,000, marking a 52% growth on 2016, the airport announced, quoted by BNR.

Travelers using regular international lines grew 53% and those using domestic lines were 60% up.

Traffic jam is expected today in Sofia due to the renovation of boulevard Brussels which will continue until October 18, Nova TV reported.

The reason is the construction of a road link between the boulevard to Terminal 2 of Sofia Airport which is expected to improve the traffic substantially.

Sofia Municipality advise citizens to use the subway or the old road to the airport.

Bulgaria's caretaker cabinet has suspended the Sofia Airport concession procedure, the spokesperson of the Council of Ministers has announced.

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vučić has stated that Bulgaria is "scared by the progress" of Serbia and this is the reason that it refused to give under concession Sofia Airport.

Transport Minister Hristo Alexiev has proposed that the Council of Ministers stop the concession of Sofia Airport, reported BGNES.

The Minister reached this decision on the basis of an expert analysis which points out that in the situation of the current concession state interests are not protected.