Varna airport increases traveling opportunities
July 16th, 2008
The summer season started with a “great” challenge for Varna Airport. Now every Monday Varna Airport operates twice as many Boeing 747 “Jumbo Jet” airplanes, compared to last year. About 2800 passengers are arriving on Monday with the Russian Transaero Airlines in a Boeing 747. Russian tourists arrive from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don in Varna during this season with regular flights of Bulgaria Air, Siberia Airlines, Russia, Aeroflot-Don.
Varna Airport operates chartered flights to different destinations in Russia: Moscow, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Saratovo, Surgut, etc. The new airlines at Varna Airport for this season are: Edelweiss Air, Lithuanian Airlines, Air Italy Polska, Lviv Airlines with flights to- Zurich, Vilnius, Warsaw, Katowice, Lviv.
With high frequency during the week, Varna Airport is running regular flights in 24 destinations in different countries: Russia, Germany, Great Britain, Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Denmark, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Austria. There are more traveling opportunities with low-rate airlines from Varna Airport. In April the spring timetable of Norwegian Air Shuttle to Oslo came into force. Later this month the airline launches flights to Warsaw. With a great frequency there are low-rate flights to Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Cologne and Berlin with the following airlines: Sterling Airlines, Air Berlin and Germanwings. Flights of the low-rate airlines Centralwings, Sky Europe Airlines and Wizz Air started in June respectively to Warsaw, Bratislava, Prague, Vienna and Budapest. Since July Wizz Air is going to have flights to Sofia four times a week.
During the first five months more than 185 000 passengers have travelled through Varna Airport, which equates to 8% growth, compared to the same period last year, reported by the airport’s press-centre.
