Varna Airport opens Summer Season with expectations of traffic growth

Tourism Minister Ilin Dimitrov reported that following the record number of 18 routes in Winter 2022/2023, Varna Airport opens the Summer 2023 Season with expectations of traffic growth compared to last year and a rich variety of attractive destinations

Tourism Minister Ilin Dimitrov reported that following the record number of 18 routes in Winter 2022/2023, Varna Airport opens the Summer 2023 Season with expectations of traffic growth compared to last year and a rich variety of attractive destinations
Tourism Minister Ilin Dimitrov reported that following the record number of 18 routes in Winter 2022/2023, Varna Airport opens the Summer 2023 Season with expectations of traffic growth compared to last year and a rich variety of attractive destinations (Image Courtesy-Facebook)

Tourism Minister Ilin Dimitrov reported that following the record number of 18 routes in Winter 2022/2023, Varna Airport opens the Summer 2023 Season with expectations of traffic growth compared to last year and a rich variety of attractive destinations.

All 16 routes Wizz Air performed in the winter will continue to be served during the summer! Of these, eight are German: Baden Baden, Berlin, Cologne, Dortmund, Frankfurt Han, Hamburg, Memmingen, Nuremberg, and the rest include Vienna (Austria), London Luton and Liverpool (UK), Prague (Czech Republic), Larnaca (Cyprus), Charleroi (Belgium), Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Tel Aviv (Israel). ️️

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From May 1, the national airline Bulgaria Air is increasing the frequency of its flights from Sofia to Varna, performing three flights a weekday and two flights a day on Saturday and Sunday.

From May 1, the national airline Bulgaria Air is increasing the frequency of its flights from Sofia to Varna, performing three flights a day on weekdays and two flights a day on Saturdays and Sundays.

Ryanair will continue to perform flights from Vienna to Varna throughout the summer season without interruption. On March 26, the low-cost airline will resume its flights from Sofia to Varna 2 times a week.

In addition, three new routes to Varna – Vilnius (Lithuania) and Katowice (Poland), which begin in early June, as well as Krakow (Poland) from the beginning of July.

Since March 27, Turkish Airlines has been increasing frequencies on the Istanbul-Varna route, performing five flights a week to 9 flights a week. From the same date, Austrian Airlines will perform flights connecting Varna and Vienna 6 times a week, and from April 10, flights will be carried out daily.

The low-cost airline easyJet also resumes flights from Berlin to Varna on March 30, and during the summer season, will also perform regular flights from London Gatwick to Varna.

Another low-cost airline, Volotea, adds another French route to the one it opened last year from the city. Lil, this time he will also be flying from town. Nantes.

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Eurowings Discover will again be operating flights on the Frankfurt – Varna route from the end of April, allowing the passengers of Varna Airport to have another opportunity to make connections with other destinations to which the Lufthansa Group airlines have flights.

On June 5, Air Serbia will launch direct flights from Belgrade to Varna 4 times a week and enable connections to many other destinations in Europe, America and Russia. The last time the Serbian national airline operated these flights was in 2016.

This year, Varna Airport will have new routes and new airlines – for the first time, Azur Air Ukraine will perform flights to Varna from 2 Polish cities – Warsaw and Katowice.

Another new Arkia airline will perform flights from Tel Aviv, and for the first time this summer, there will be a combined route of charter flights from Karlovy Vary and Pardubice, Czech Republic.

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Several routes from the Scandinavian countries, such as Bergen (Norway), Helsinki (Finland) and Aalborg (Denmark), will be restarted this summer season. The first charters from Germany began in the first half of May.