[size=85:15d9q5zi]Sofia echo 16 July 2010

Bourgas airport marks increase in passengers numbers in H1 2010

Bourgas airport has reported a total of 441 168 passengers processed in the first six months of 2010, a 4.3 per cent increase over the same period last year, German operator Fraport AG, which holds the concession for the airport, said in a media statement on July 16 2010.

Fraport AG operates both airports in Bulgaria's Black Sea coastal cities of Varna and Bourgas.

There was an increase of tourists from Poland, the Czech Republic and Belarus so far this year. Fraport said that July was one of the busiest months for the airport with an average of 120 planes leaving or departing daily, but this summer the figure was expected to reach up to 140 flights daily.

Traditionally, Bourgas airport's most busiest destinations are Germany, the United Kingdom, Russia, the Czech Republic, Israel and Poland, Fraport said.

Meanwhile, statistics for the Varna airport on the northern seaboard showed that about 370 000 passengers had been serviced in the first half of 2010, a decline of 3.5 per cent from last year. Russian, Austrian, Hungarian and Polish tourists were among those who had marked an increase this summer in comparison to 2009.

Varna airport services regular flights to Sofia, London, Vienna, Budapest, Moscow, Ekaterinburg, St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Rostov, Berlin, Chisinau, Zurich, Warsaw, Odessa, Luxenbourg, Düsseldorf, Brussels and Oslo.

The airport also serviced new charter destinations to Bergamo, Tabriz, Ufa, Aarhus, Llodz, and Wroclaw, Fraport said.

Lets hope it continue the same trend for a while yet because this really is only a slight increase to what it is needed

All we need now if for Fraport to lower their charges to the airlines to make it more attractive for other carries to fly there/existing ones more frequently

bubble160207 wrote:

All we need now if for Fraport to lower their charges to the airlines to make it more attractive for other carries to fly there/existing ones more frequently

Your absolutely right with this if we could get a Freeport that would not only help visitors but it would also help the Bulgarians

sarah

just spent a two and a half weeks at our apartment in Pomorie and the town is full of Russians and Ukrainians, every where we went Tanya was saying to me she could hear the russian language being spoken, I think a lot of them drove there as there seemed to be a lot of their cars around. Traditionally the Bulgarian Black sea resorts were where The soviets used to holiday, but when the USSR broke up they seemed to stay away but now it seems that they are back in force. Over the last few years it tended to be a lot of Serbians there but when Bulgaria went into the EU they had problems with having to get visa,s