[size=85:140r41ng]Sofia echo 27 April 2010
Bourgas airport to offer regular flights to 17 destinations in summer 2010
Bulgaria's Black Sea Bourgas airport will join its Varna counterpart, both owned by Fraport, by providing flights to 17 destinations for the upcoming summer season in 2010.
Bourgas will serve Sofia, Brussels, Budapest, Cologne, Moscow, Dusseldorf, Katowice, London, Luxembourg, Oslo, Novosibirsk, Poznan, Prague, Ekaterinburg, Warsaw, Wroclaw and St. Petersburg, the airport said.
According to media reports. the first batch of 130 Russian tourists were welcomed on April 26.
This follows the announcement of Varna airport a month earlier that they will provide regular flights to Sofia, London, Vienna, Budapest, Moscow, Rostov on Don, St Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Odessa, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Oslo, Warsaw, Brussels, Luxembourg and Kishinev.
Meanwhile, the plan for the construction of the new Bourgas airport terminal is close to being completed, Focus news agency reported.
According to the airport managing director Georgi Chepilski: "
I am hoping that by the end of the year the blueprint will be ready and by 2013, the terminal will be completed,"
Focus reported on April 27.