Burgas Airport

Burgas Airport Летище Бургас
File:Burgas airport logo.png
IATA: BOJ ICAO: LBBG
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Fraport
Operator	Fraport Twin Star Airport Management
Serves	Burgas, Bulgaria
Location	Burgas, Bulgaria
Hub for	Air VIA BH Air Bulgaria Air Bulgarian Air Charter
Elevation AMSL	41 m / 135 ft
Coordinates	42°34′13″N 027°30′55″E
Website	burgas-airport.com
Map
BOJ Location of airport in Bulgaria
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 04/22 3,200 10,500 Concrete
Statistics (2016)
Passengers 2,878,883 Aircraft movements 20,873
Source: Bulgarian AIP at EUROCONTROL

Burgas Airport (IATA: BOJ, ICAO: LBBG), ([Летище Бургас, Letishte Burgas] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is an international airport in southeast Bulgaria and the second largest airport in the country. The airport is located near to the north neighbourhood of Burgas, Sarafovo almost 10 kilometres from the city centre. The airport serves Burgas and seaside resorts of Bulgarian south coast and is a major destination during the European summer leisure season. In 2016, the airport handled 2,878,883 passengers, a 22.0% increase compared to 2015.

History

Early years

On 27 June 1937 the French company CIDNA (now part of Air France), chose the area of Burgas Airport to build a radio station and signed a contract with the Bulgarian government for its use. The contract expressly stated that the staff of Burgas Airport would be Bulgarian.

On 29 June 1947, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines began domestic flights between Burgas, Plovdiv and Sofia, using Junkers Ju 52/3m aircraft. In the 1950s and 1960s the airport was expanded and modernized by building a concrete runway. In 1970, the airport became an international airport serving 45 destinations.

Development since the 2000s

Burgas airport has been subject to heavy traffic following the growing tourism industry in Bulgaria and was in need of major investments to expand and handle projected passenger traffic. In June 2006, the Bulgarian Government awarded Fraport AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide a 35-year-long concession on both Varna and Burgas airports in return for investments exceeding €500 million.

Fraport entered into partnership with Varna-based company BM Star. The concessionaire has vowed to inject 403 million Euro in the two airports during the lifespan of the arrangement. Fraport will pay 60% of an investment of EUR 403 million over the 35-year concession. The investments will be made in new terminal facilities, vehicles and equipment and expanding apron areas at the airports over the life of the concession

On 18 July 2012 a bomb exploded on a passenger bus transporting Israeli tourists at the Burgas Airport. The explosion killed seven people and injured thirty-two (see 2012 Burgas bus bombing).

Facilities

Terminal 2

Control tower

Terminals

In December 2011 construction work began on the new Terminal 2. The new terminal was planned to have a capacity of 2,700,000 passengers and an area of 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft). The new terminal building was designed so that it can be easily upgraded to further increase capacity, if necessary. Construction of the new terminal was completed in 2013, and has been operational since December 2013.

Terminal 2 replaced the older Terminal 1, which was built in the 1950s and expanded in the early 1990s, and now handles all of the airport's passenger traffic. The terminal is equipped with 31 check-in counters, three boarding-card checkpoints, nine security lanes and eight departure gates. The arrivals area (divided into Schengen and non-Schengen zones) has 12 immigration stations and four baggage carousels (one 120 metres (390 ft) long and three 70 metres (230 ft) long carousels). Passenger amenities include 800 square metres (8,600 sq ft) of space dedicated to shopping and 1,220 square metres (13,100 sq ft) for food and beverage (F&B) services. There is also a 550 square metres (5,900 sq ft) outdoor courtyard.

Runway

At 3,200 metres (10,500 ft), Burgas Airport has the fourth longest runway in the Balkans, after Athens Airport, Sofia Airport and Belgrade Airport.
In 31 October 2016 begins reconstruction and rehabilitation of taxiways at Burgas airport. The project includes a complete rehabilitation of 3,500 square meters of taxiway "H", complete rehabilitation of taxiway "A", as well as area adjacent to the runway holding point. During this period also the replacement of the control and monitoring system for airfield lighting and approach light equipment will be completed. The total investment of Fraport Twin Star Airport Management in these projects is over BGN 12 million.

Airlines and destinations

There are domestic and international flights to about 126 destinations in 31 countries, by more than 69 Bulgarian and foreign airlines (season 2016). The busiest season for the airport is from the end of April to the beginning of October.

Passenger

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aer Lingus	Seasonal: Dublin	2
Aeroflot operated by Rossiya Airlines	Seasonal: Saint Petersburg	2
airBaltic	Seasonal: Riga	2
BH Air	Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast-International, Billund, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Copenhagen, Doncaster/Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Humberside, Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham/East Midlands, Zürich	2
Bulgaria Air	Sofia, Varna Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	2
Condor	Seasonal: Frankfurt, Leipzig/Halle	2
Corendon Dutch Airlines	Seasonal: Amsterdam	2
Germania	Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld, Bremen, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Rostock	2
Germania Flug	Seasonal: Zürich	2
Israir Airlines	Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	2
Luxair	Seasonal: Luxembourg	2
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda	2
Norwegian Air Shuttle operated by Norwegian Air International	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki	2
S7 Airlines	Moscow-Domodedovo Seasonal: Novosibirsk	2
Small Planet Poland	Seasonal: Katowice, Lublin (begins 19 June 2017), Warsaw-Chopin	2
SmartWings operated by Travel Service	Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava, Pardubice, Prague	2
SmartWings operated by Travel Service Slovakia	Seasonal: Bratislava, Košice, Poprad, Sliač	2
SunExpress Deutschland	Seasonal: Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Leipzig/Halle, Nuremberg, Stuttgart	2
Thomas Cook Airlines	Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham/East Midlands, Cardiff	2
Thomson Airways	Seasonal: Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham/East Midlands	2
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Brussels, Ostend/Bruges	2
Ural Airlines	Seasonal: Samara, Yekaterinburg	2
Windrose Airlines	Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil	2
Wizz Air	London-Luton Seasonal: Budapest, Katowice, Warsaw-Chopin	2

Charter

This list includes airlines and destinations which operate charter flights to and from Burgas airport for summer season of 2017.\

Airlines	Destinations	Terminal
Aeroflot operated by Rossiya Airlines	Seasonal: Moscow-Vnukovo	2
Anda Air	Seasonal: Kiev-Zhuliany (begins 2 June 2017)	2
Arkia	Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	2
ASL Airlines France	Seasonal: Lyon, Paris-Charles de Gaulle	2
ASL Airlines Ireland	Seasonal: Dublin	2
Atlantic Airways	Seasonal: Billund, Copenhagen	2
Austrian Airlines	Seasonal: Vienna (begins 11 June 2017)	2
Azur Air	Seasonal: Kazan, Moscow-Domodedovo, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg, Samara (begins 3 June 2017), Tyumen, Ufa, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg	2
Azur Air Germany	Seasonal: Düsseldorf	2
Azur Air Ukraine	Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil	2
Belavia	Seasonal: Brest, Gomel, Hrodna, Minsk, Mogilev, Vitebsk	2
BH Air	Seasonal: Alesund, Amsterdam (resumes 19 June 2017), Bari, Beirut, Bergen, Billund, Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter (begins 13 June 2017), Harstad/Narvik, Haugesund, Helsinki, Naples, Tromso, Trondheim	2
BRA	Seasonal: Billund (begins 27 June 2017), Copenhagen (begins 23 June 2017), Gothenburg-Landvetter, Malmö, Stockholm-Arlanda (begins 12 June 2017)	2
Bravo Airways	Seasonal: Kharkiv, Kiev-Zhuliany (begins 6 June 2017), Kryvyi Rih (begins 23 June 2017)	2
Brussels Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels	2
Bul Air	Seasonal: Gdańsk (begins 17 June 2017), Katowice (begins 13 June 2017), Kuwait (begins 25 June 2017), Poznań (begins 16 June 2017), Tehran-Imam Khomeini (begins 22 June 2017), Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Warsaw-Chopin (begins 16 June 2017)	2
Bulgaria Air	Seasonal: Belfast-International, Kuwait, Pardubice	2
Bulgarian Air Charter	Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Schonefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Billund (begins 27 June 2017), Bratislava, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen (begins 27 June 2017), Debrecen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt/Weimar, Frankfurt, Graz, Hamburg, Hannover, Katowice, Košice, Leipzig/Halle, Linz, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück (resumes 26 June 2017), Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Poprad, Poznań, Prague, Rzeszów, Saarbrücken, Salzburg (resumes 5 June 2017), Stuttgart, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Vienna, Warsaw-Chopin, Wroclaw, Yerevan	2
Corendon Airlines	Seasonal: Brussels	2
Corendon Dutch Airlines	Seasonal: Amsterdam	2
DART Ukrainian Airlines	Seasonal: Kiev-Zhuliany (resumes 2 June 2017)	2
Dniproavia	Seasonal: Dnipropetrovsk, Lviv (begins 11 June 2017)	2
Enter Air	Seasonal: Bydgoszcz (begins 13 June 2017), Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin (begins 19 June 2017), Poznań, Rzeszów (begins 2 June 2017), Warsaw-Chopin, Wroclaw	2
Eurowings	Seasonal: Düsseldorf	2
Eurowings operated by Germanwings	Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel, Stuttgart	2
Gazpromavia	Seasonal: Moscow-Vnukovo	2
I-Fly	Seasonal: Moscow-Vnukovo	2
Israir Airlines	Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion	2
Jet Time	Seasonal: Billund, Helsinki	2
Motor Sich Airlines	Seasonal: Zaporizhia (begins 15 June 2017)	2
NordStar	Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo, Saint Petersburg	2
Nordwind Airlines	Seasonal: Arkhangelsk, Kazan, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg, Samara, Ufa	2
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Seasonal: Stavanger	2
Novair	Seasonal: Oslo-Gardermoen	2
Pegas Fly	Seasonal: Arkhangelsk (begins 31 May 2017)	2
Royal Flight	Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo (begins 9 June 2017)	2
Scandinavian Airlines	Seasonal: Aalborg (begins 30 June 2017), Bergen (begins 30 June 2017), Billund (begins 26 June 2016), Copenhagen, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda	2
SCAT Airlines	Seasonal: Almaty (begins 3 June 2017), Astana (begins 6 June 2017)	2
Severstal Air Company	Seasonal: Cherepovets	2
Small Planet Airlines	Seasonal: Kaunas (begins 16 July 2017), Reykjavík-Keflavík (begins 20 July 2017), Vilnius	2
Small Planet Germany	Seasonal: Bremen, Paderborn/Lippstadt	2
Small Planet Poland	Seasonal: Gdańsk, Katowice, Kraków, Lublin, Warsaw-Chopin, Wroclaw (begins 6 June 2017)	2
SmartLynx Airlines	Seasonal: Riga	2
Smartlynx Airlines Estonia	Seasonal: Tallinn	2
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium	Seasonal: Brussels	2
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia	Seasonal: Copenhagen (begins 26 June 2017), Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Trondheim (begins 7 June 2017)	2
Transavia	Seasonal: Amsterdam	2
Transavia France	Seasonal: Paris-Orly	2
Travel Service	Seasonal: Bratislava, Brno, Katowice (begins 2 June 2017), Košice, Ostrava, Pardubice, Prague	2
Travel Service Hungary	Seasonal: Budapest	2
Travel Service Poland	Seasonal: Budapest (begins 17 June 2017), Katowice, Warsaw-Chopin	2
Travel Service Slovakia	Seasonal: Bratislava, Košice, Poprad, Sliač	2
TUI fly Belgium	Seasonal: Lyon, Metz/Nancy, Paris-Charles de Gaulle	2
TUI fly Netherlands	Seasonal: Amsterdam	2
TUI fly Nordic	Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki (begins 6 June 2017), Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda	2
Ural Airlines	Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo	2
VIM Airlines	Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo, Saint Petersburg	2
Windrose Airlines	Seasonal: Dnipropetrovsk (resumes 10 June 2017)	2
Yakutia Airlines	Seasonal: Moscow-Vnukovo (resumes 9 June 2017)	2
Yamal Airlines	Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo	2

Statistics

Traffic at Burgas Airport

Year	Domestic passenger	Change	International passenger	Change	Total	Change	Aircraft movements	Change
1998	16,020		417,004		433,024		6,092
1999	14,734	8%	324,563	22%	339,297	21.6%	5,722	6.1%
2000	8,964	39.2%	389,051	19.9%	398,015	17.3%	5,224	8.7%
2001	1,993	77.8%	592,403	52.3%	594,396	49.3%	5,633	7.8%
2002	1,882	5.6%	765,594	29.2%	767,476	29.1%	6,515	15.6%
2003	1,858	1.3%	1,024,179	33.8%	1,026,037	33.7%	8,136	24.8%
2004	2,621	41.1%	1,339,552	30.8%	1,342,173	30.8%	10,692	31.4%
2005	2,232	14.8%	1,553,398	16%	1,555,603	16%	11,842	10.7%
2006	1,504	32.6%	1,706,695	9.9%	1,708,199	9.8%	13,364	12.8%
2007	11,346	654.4%	1,926,279	12.9%	1,937,625	13.4%	13,606	1.8%
2008	15,061	32.7%	1,905,562	1.1%	1,920,623	0.8%	13,794	1.4%
2009	12,450	17.3%	1,671,336	12.3%	1,683,786	12.3%	11,956	13.3%
2010	14,273	14.6%	1,858,345	11.2%	1,872,618	11.2%	13,774	15.2%
2011	77,789	445%	2,151,256	21.2%	2,229,045	19%	19,215	19%
2012	69,244	11%	2,287,621	6.3%	2,356,865	5.7%	16,961	11.7%
2013	44,780	34.3%	2,416,868	2.5%	2,461,648	4.4%	18,008	6.2%
2014	36,589	18.3%	2,485,730	2.8%	2,522,319	2.6%	18,869	0.8%
2015	30,376	17%	2,329,944	7.3%	2,360,320	6.7%	18,271	4.3%
2016	21,104	30.5%	2,857,779	22.7%	2,878,883	22.0%	20,873	14.2%
2017 (01.01 - 30.04)					52,452	4.2%	873	14.2%

Ground transportation

Bus

Line No 15 (Bus-stop: located at the entrance of the airport area).Initial and final bus stops in Burgas – Burgas bus station "South".

Taxi

The Taxi Piazza is located in front of the Arrivals Terminal at Burgas Airport. A taxi ride from Burgas Airport to the city takes approx 15 minutes, depending on the traffic intensity.

Parking

Passengers and guests arriving at Burgas Airport with their personal car can use the commercially available parking lot, located in the immediate vicinity of the main terminal building. The parking lot has 199 car spaces available and is accessible 24 hours a day.

Incidents and accidents

• On 18 July 2012, an attack at Burgas Airport occurred. A suicide bomber boarded a bus which was transporting Israeli citizens to the Bulgarian resort of Sunny Beach located in Burgas, the perpetrator detonated the bomb killing 6 civilians (+ 1 suicide bomber) as well as injuring 32 people. The attack resulted in the closure of Burgas Airport for over 30 hours, resulting in the majority of flights diverting to Varna Airport.

See also

• List of airports in Bulgaria
• List of airlines of Bulgaria
• List of the busiest airports in Europe by passenger traffic
• 2012 Burgas bus bombing

External links

• Official website
• FOLLOW ME film about Burgas Airport