BH Air Ltd., or Balkan Holidays Airlines, is an airline headquartered in Sofia, Bulgaria.[1] It is a branch of tour operator Balkan Holidays International and as such offers charter flights to the United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Germany, Israel and Switzerland, as well as ad hoc charters to other destinations. The airline's main base is Varna Airport, secondary ones at Sofia Airport, Plovdiv International Airport and Bourgas Airport.[2]
[edit] History
BH Air was founded in 2001 and began operations in January 2002 with flights from Sofia for needs of the UK tour operator "Balkan Holidays" - London. It is owned by Balkan Holidays International.
The airline began to fly with one aircfraft of type Tupolev Tu-154M, a few months later, the number of aircrafts increased to four. Thus BH Air has become a factor in the market with charter flights to and from Bulgaria.
In the summer of 2003 was put into operation the first Airbus A320.Later the airline take on leasing three more Airbus A320 and the fleet increase to eight aircarts - four Tupolev Tu-154M and four Airbus A320.
In 2004 BH Air begin to perform charter flights for the leading tour opeterators company in Europe: Balkan Holidays, Kuoni, TUI and a large number of smaller tour operators.For 2004 BH Air transport around 400,000 passanger to and from Bulgaria.
In 2005 BH Air signed two-year contract for a wet lease with Virgin Group.This leads to the creation of new airline in Nigeria - Virgin Nigeria.BH Air aircrafts also operated for Air Arabia, Pacific Airlines and more.
In 2006 the airline retired Tupolev Tu154M.
In 2007 after the work with Virgin Group and gained experience BH Air take participation in creation of new airline in Sri Lanka - Mihin Lanka.
In the moment BH Air has over 300 employees, of which more than 40 pilots and 100 cabin crew. Operated with 5 Airbus A320 and two Airbus A319 one of them operated for Bulgarian government. [3]
[edit] Destinations
As of November 2011, the BH Air fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 15.5 years:[4]
[edit] Retired fleet
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