• Bulgaria's Varna Airport with 19 Regular Lines in Summer 2011

    The international airport in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna will serve 19 regular routes in the summer season of 2011. The summer schedule of Varna Airport enters into force as of March 27, 2011; the first foreign tourists for the nearby Black Sea resorts are expected to arrive on Monday, March 28. The new destinations that Varna will have direct flights to Colon, Germany; Katowice, Poland; Samara and Kazan, Russia. The destinations with the highest frequency of outbound Varna flights are Sofia, Vienna, and Budapest. As of June 2011, Varna Airport will have direct daily flights to Moscow's Domodedovo Airport. Bulgaria Air will launch direct flights to Moscow's Sheremetievo twice weekly, and to St. Petersburg – once weekly – as of May 28. Varna will also have Bulgaria Air flights to London Gatwick twice weekly...

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  • Bulgaria Cheapest Destination for UK Tourists

    Bulgaria has been pronounced the cheapest destination, and a real bargain by a survey made by Post Office travel services. Ten typical holiday items and costs, including a meal out, postcards, English newspapers, insect-repellent and bottled water, will cost tourists just GBP 42,23 in Bulgaria, the survey showed. Bulgaria has ousted Thailand as the cheapest place for an overseas holiday, offering the best value out of 18 popular foreign destinations, the Telegraph Daily announced. Low prices combined with a favourable exchange rate make it top choice for money-conscious travellers, according to Post Office research. The findings could mean Brits heading to Bulgaria's Black Sea resorts instead of the Spanish beaches. Thailand, at GBP 43,92 for the 10 items, is the next best bargain destination, while South Africa (GBP 46,13) is in third place...

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  • Wizz Air Confirms New Varna - London Flights

    Wizz Air has confirmed that it will begin operating a new service from London Luton Airport to the Bulgarian seaside city of Varna. The Hungary based low-cost carrier plans to begin the route this summer, with flights departing twice a week between June 27 and September 5. It will be Wizz Air's third Luton link to Bulgaria. The no-frills airline already flies to capital city Sofia as well as Burgas, cheapflights.co.uk reported. With the addition of the new service, Wizz Air will operate a total of 16 flights out of the London airport, including routes to Hungary, Poland, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. Tickets for the new Varna connection are on sale now, costing from GBP 52.99 one-way including taxes. Last year, Wizz Air carried almost six million passengers across the continent. The airline operates 22 Airbus A320s from ten bases spread across mainland Europe.

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  • Irish Aer Lingus to fly to Sofia

    Aer Lingus, Ireland’s budget air carrier, unveiled nine new routes to the UK and Europe, Bloomberg reported. The carrier will fly to Sofia all Thursdays and Saturdays from October 28. Earlier in the year the company launched its first Bulgarian route taking passengers to and from the Black Sea city of Burgas. Aer Lingus operates nearly 70 destinations across Ireland, the UK, Continental Europe and the United States.

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  • More air carriers add Varna routes

    This summer, Varna will appear for the first time on the destination rosters of four airlines. Edelweiss Air will fly to Zurich; Lithuanian Airlines will offer flights to Vilnius while Air Italy Polska will open routes to Warsaw and Katowice. Ukrain?'s Lviv Airlines will offer a flight service to Lvov. The number of Boeing 747s jetting to and from the Varna airport, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, will double this summer, said airport PRO Meliha Kasacheva. Eight flights of Russian carrier Transaero are scheduled on Mondays, generating a traffic of 2,800 passengers. Low cost carriers already flying to Varna are also adding new destinations. Norwegian Air Shuttle opened a service to Oslo two months ago and will start offering flights to Warsaw later this month. Sterling Airlines will fly to Copenhagen while Air Berlin and German wings will carry passengers to Duesseldorf, Cologne and Berlin...

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