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Hiya Guys I just had this sent to me from BRE in Yambol Bg, I just thought it may be of interest to anyone who is thinking of going to Bg soon

Good Opportunity to Re-register your Company

We would like to inform all of our clients that Wizz Air are offering return

flights from London Luton to Burgas airport from just 68 pounds,

during the months of October and November and with this in mind it may

be the perfect time to come to Bulgaria and re-register your Company

which must be done by December 2010.

Best regards

Karen Penny

Bulgarian Real Estate - Yambol OOD

oddball wrote:

That is good news however, remember Varna airport is closed from 15 Oct 2011 until Feb 2012 which is a pain as this is the day we fly home so a long trip to Burgas

I have just noticed on the Wizzair calendar that they are showing the last flight out of Varna to Luton is on Saturday 28th October
I wonder if that is correct but it means that they are doing a coach transfer from Varna to Bourgas after the 15th October

Any of you fancy starting a "
Flight finder"
service (UK-Bulgaria) for those of us who want to travel but aren't expert at this and don't have time to spend online? I'd be happy to pay a commission for that! Or does someone do this already?

fruitlover wrote:

Any of you fancy starting a "
Flight finder"
service (UK-Bulgaria) for those of us who want to travel but aren't expert at this and don't have time to spend online? I'd be happy to pay a commission for that! Or does someone do this already?

Sorry to sound off the wall but can you explain what it is you mean exactly?

I mean become a specialist travel agent, I suppose. I had the name of an independent travel agent in the UK but I've lost her details. She arranged trips for people according to their individual requirements and charged a fee for this. When you're doing it a lot you know where to look to find the best deals and all the options, not everyone has the time or know-how to do this. Obviously to make a full time living at it one would be doing more than just UK/Bulgaria travel plans, but it's an independent business to run from home, at whatever level one chooses, and if it's done well there can be a lot of repeat business.

fruitlover wrote:

I mean become a specialist travel agent, I suppose. I had the name of an independent travel agent in the UK but I've lost her details. She arranged trips for people according to their individual requirements and charged a fee for this. When you're doing it a lot you know where to look to find the best deals and all the options, not everyone has the time or know-how to do this. Obviously to make a full time living at it one would be doing more than just UK/Bulgaria travel plans, but it's an independent business to run from home, at whatever level one chooses, and if it's done well there can be a lot of repeat business.

:Howdy:fruitlover
I think there are many specialist travel agents struggling to stay in business at present. you say:- an independent business to run from home, in theory a good idea but in pratice it would not work, because of the main fact of potential customers parting with their money to a non-ABTA bonded business, and that costs a lot of money to set up. You would also have to consider the pro's and con's of insurance because If something went wrong with a booking and it wasn't covered by insurance, that definately spells trouble
Sorry to come up with doom and gloom but I am trying to be constructive and voice the potential pitfalls

Yes that's true, obviously there are a lot of details to learn about this line of work. Not being very used to looking things up online I was wondering how to find someone who does it. None of the travel agents we went into in town would do individual trips to Bulgaria for us, but I knew such people exist because of having met one. Probably should have looked in the Yellow Pages or just typed 'Independent Travel Agent' into Google, especially as this was one of the online business opportunities I remember reading about when the Web was new. But though the work was done online the advertising (then) was not. There are always niche markets to address and 70,000 or so ex-pats going to and fro seemed like they may be one of them. I'm glad there are more savvy people than me on here to raise these pertinent issues.

Yes thankyou. I guess I'm just a bit nervous about booking online after some of the cases I've heard of lost tickets and disappearing money and bookings, etc. I still tend to prefer dealing with actual people I can speak with. But thankyou anyway I will have a look, if they fly from the North.

Oops think I just replied to an earlier post that wasn't an answer to mine, sorry!

Wizzair have a promotion advertised on their website today... 20% off any flight booked today.

Your right Esta but I think this only applies to paid up members?

[size=150:3j6w6j07]IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PASSENGERS TRAVELLING TO THE UNITED KINGDOM!

Due to Border Agency strike in UK from 29 June 22:00 the waiting time upon arrival to UK airports will be significantly extended.
We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused to our passengers by this strike.

I understand that there is up to a 3 hour delay on tonights Varna to Luton flight, but you should check it out for yourselves

Wizz flight from London Luton came in 3 mins late to Burgas.

Fletch wrote:

Wizz flight from London Luton came in 3 mins late to Burgas.

Guess they got that wrong than Fletch or either they used a super jet

I hope nobody has to get the last Wizz flight out of Varna in October, it's cost is 540leva without baggage

Bother we fly back on that flight but it was booked back in Feb so should not be any additional charges. I might try to get it changed as I just cannot cope with the long journey to Bourgas,