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Burgas Airport

Bourgas Airport

Sarafovo Airport

Летище Бургас
File:Burgas airport logo.png
  • IATA: BOJ
  • ICAO: LBBG
    BOJ is located in Bulgaria
    BOJ
    BOJ
    Location of airport in Bulgaria
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorFraport Twin Star Airport Management
ServesBurgas Bulgaria
LocationBurgas, Bulgaria
Hub for
Elevation AMSL41 m / 135 ft
Coordinates42°34′13″N 027°30′55″E / 42.57028°N 27.51528°E / 42.57028; 27.51528
Websitewww.bourgas-airport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04/22 3,200 10,500 Concrete
Statistics (2012)
Passengers2,356,865 Increase
Aircraft Movements16,961 Decrease
Source: Belgian AIP at EUROCONTROL

Burgas Airport (IATA: BOJ, ICAO: LBBG), ([Летище Бургас, Letishte Burgas] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) and also known as Sarafovo Airport is an 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 kilometers from the city center. Between the airport and the city centre is located the Lake Atanasovsko.

Burgas Airport has the fourth runway length on the Balkans (3200m) after Athens Airport, Sofia Airport and Belgrade Airport. The airport has also well established links to intermodal transport by land (road and railway) and sea. In 2012, the airport is handled 2,356,865 passengers, a 5.7% increase compared to 2,229,045 handled in 2011.

History

On 27 June 1927 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.[1]

Currently, Burgas airport is subject to heavy traffic following the growing tourism industry in Bulgaria and is 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 will be in 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 said it 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).

Terminals

Burgas Airport Terminal Departures

Current Terminals

Currently they are two Terminals at the airport, mentioned als Terminal Arrivals, and Terminal Departures. The first of them was built in the 1950s, the second in the early 1990s. In both terminals there are various outlets: cafes, fast food restaurants, currency exchange, duty-free shops also a VIP room and business lounge.

Extension

In December 2011 began construction work on new Terminal. The new terminal will have a capacity of 2,700,000 passengers and 31 check-in desks and covers an area of 20,000m2. The new terminal buildings are designed so that it can their capacity, if necessary, be further increased as an extension to the existing architectural part. Construction of new terminal should be completed by the winter of 2013.[2]

Airlines and destinations

Condor Boeing 757-300 at Burgas Airport.
Air Via Airbus A320 ground handling at Burgas Airport.

There are domestic and international flights to about 119 destinations in 32 countries, by more than 62 bulgarian and foreign airlines. The busiest season for the airport is from the end of April to the beginning of October.

Scheduled flights

AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
Bulgaria Air Sofia, Varna
Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo, St. Petersburg
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda (begins 25 June 2013)
Rossiya Seasonal: St. Petersburg
S7 Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
Seasonal: Novosibirsk (resumes 13 June 2013)[3]
SmartWings Seasonal: Bratislava, Brno, Budapest, Košice, Ostrava, Prague (resumes 21 May 2013)
Ural Airlines Seasonal: Nizhny Novgorod (begins 28 May 2013), Yekaterinburg (resumes 24 May 2013)
Wizz Air London-Luton
Seasonal: Budapest (resumes 15 June 2013), Katowice (resumes 18 June 2013), Poznań (resumes 15 June 2013), Warsaw-Modlin (resumes 15 June 2013)

Seasonal Charter flights

AirlinesDestinations
Adria Airways Ljubljana (resumes 17 June 2013)[3]
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo (resumes 27 May 2013)[3]
airBaltic Riga (resumes 31 May 2013)[3]
Air Onix Kiev-Zhuliany (begins 31 May 2013), Lviv (resumes 13 June 2013)[3]
Air VIA Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Schönefeld (resumes 15 June 2013), Cologne/Bonn (resumes 18 June 2013), Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt (resumes 11 July 2013), Frankfurt, Hamburg (resumes 31 May 2013), Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Prague (resumes 4 June 2013), Salzburg (resumes 8 June 2013), Stuttgart, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Vienna (resumes 20 June 2013), Zweibrücken (resumes 10 July 2013)[3]
Arkefly Amsterdam
Arkia Israel Airlines Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (begins 13 July 2013)
Aviatrans Kiev Donetsk (begins 6 June 2013), Kharkiv (begins 6 June 2013), Kiev-Zhuliany (begins 5 July 2013)[3]
Belavia Brest (begins 5 June 2013), Minsk-National (resumes 31 May 2013)[3]
BH Air Aberdeen (resumes 1 June 2013), Alesund (resumes 31 May 2013), Amsterdam (resumes 4 June 2013), Bari (resumes 26 July 2013), Belfast-International (resumes 17 June 2013), Bergamo (resumes 16 July 2013), Bergen (resumes 26 June 2013), Billund (resumes 7 June 2013), Birmingham, Bodø, Bologna (resumes 2 August 2013), Bristol, Cardiff, Catania (begins 28 July 2013), Copenhagen (resumes 2 June 2013), Doncaster/Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Graz, Harstad/Narvik-Evenes (resumes 23 May 2013), Haugesund (resumes 23 May 2013), Humberside, Innsbruck, Lakselv, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Naples (resumes 23 July 2013), Newcastle upon Tyne (resumes 24 May 2013), Nottingham/East Midlands, Norwich, Palermo (begins 27 July 2013), Rome-Fiumicino (resumes 25 July 2013), Salzburg, Tromsø (resumes 12 June 2013), Trondheim (resumes 19 June 2013), Vienna, Weeze (begins 4 July 2013), Zürich (begins 18 June 2013)[3]
Bulgaria Air Almaty (resumes 5 June 2013), Amsterdam (resumes 11 June 2013), Billund, Copenhagen (resumes 26 June 2013), Hannover (resumes 29 June 2013), Kuwait (resumes 19 June 2013), Leipzig/Halle, Lisbon (begins 31 July 2013), Munich (resumes 4 August 2013), Porto (begins 31 July 2013), Prague (resumes 15 June 2013), Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Yerevan (begins 17 July 2013)[3]
Bulgarian Air Charter Baku (begins 4 July 2013), Berlin-Schönefeld, Bratislava (resumes 4 June 2013), Budapest (resumes 15 June 2013), Cologne/Bonn (resumes 26 May 2013), Debrecen (resumes 16 June 2013), Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg (resumes 26 June 2013), Hannover, Katowice (resumes 3 June 2013), Košice (resumes 18 June 2013), Kuwait (resumes 8 August 2013), Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück (resumes 1 June 2013), Naples (begins 5 August 2013), Nuremberg, Poprad/Tatry (resumes 18 June 2013), Rzeszów (begins 28 June 2013), Sliač (resumes 29 June 2013), Stuttgart (resumes 2 July 2013), Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Vienna (resumes 1 June 2013), Warsaw-Chopin (resumes 10 June 2013), Wroclaw (resumes 21 June 2013), Yerevan (resumes 26 June 2013)[3]
Condor Berlin-Schönefeld, Frankfurt, Leipzig/Halle, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart [3]
Corendon Dutch Airlines Amsterdam (resumes 31 May 2013)[3]
Enter Air Gdańsk (begins 7 June 2013), Katowice (resumes 7 June 2013), Lódź (resumes 8 June 2013), Poznań (resumes 7 June 2013), Warsaw-Chopin (resumes 7 June 2013)[3]
Europe Airpost Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 16 July 2013)
Finnair Helsinki (resumes 25 May 2013)[3]
Germania Berlin-Tegel, Bremen (resumes 31 May 2013), Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hannover, Innsbruck, Leipzig/Halle, Munich [3]
German Sky Airlines Berlin-Schönefeld (resumes 3 June 2013), Cologne/Bonn (resumes 3 June 2013), Düsseldorf, Hannover (resumes 3 June 2013), Leipzig/Halle, Stuttgart (begins 22 May 2013)
Germanwings Stuttgart [3]
I-Fly Moscow-Vnukovo (resumes 3 June 2013)[3]
Jetairfly Brussels
Jet Time Aalborg (begins 25 June 2013), Oslo-Gardermoen (resumes 10 June 2013), Stockholm-Arlanda (begins 28 May 2013)[3]
Kolavia Moscow-Domodedovo (resumes 27 May 2013)
Malmö Aviation Copenhagen (resumes 23 June 2013)
Moskovia Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo (resumes 1 June 2013)
Niki Vienna
NordStar Moscow-Domodedovo (begins 7 June 2013), St. Petersburg (resumes 31 May 2013)
Nordwind Airlines Kazan (begins 18 June 2013)
Norwegian Air Shuttle Stavanger (resume 25 June 2013)
Novair Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda [3]
Orenair Moscow-Domodedovo (resumes 24 May 2013)[3]
Primera Air Helsinki (begins 5 June 2013), Jyväskylä (begins 29 May 2013), Varkaus (begins 22 May 2013)[3]
SAMair Budapest (begins 18 June 2013)[4]
Scandinavian Airlines Bergen (resumes 27 June 2013), Billund (resumes 16 June 2013), Copenhagen (resumes 26 May 2013), Gothenburg-Landvetter (resumes 25 May 2013), Malmö (begins 23 June 2013), Oslo-Gardermoen (resumes 15 June 2013), Stavanger (resums 25 June 2013), Stockholm-Arlanda (resumes 22 June 2013), Trondheim (resumes 25 June 2013)[3]
Small Planet Airlines Vilnius (resumes 10 June 2013)
Small Planet Airlines Polska Katowice (resumes 10 June 2013), Kraków (resumes 21 June 2013), Warsaw-Chopin (resumes 10 June 2013)[3]
SunExpress Deutschland Düsseldorf (begins 28 May 2013), Hamburg (begins 28 May 2013) [3]
Tatarstan Airlines Samara (begins 8 June 2013)
Thomas Cook Airlines Birmingham (resumes 25 May 2013), Bristol (begins 24 May 2013), Glasgow-International (resumes 1 June 2013), London-Gatwick (resumes 28 May 2013), Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne (resumes 25 May 2013)[3]
Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Brussels
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Helsinki (resumes 25 May 2013), Oslo-Gardermoen (resumes 11 June 2013)
Thomson Airways Belfast-International (resumes 27 May 2013), Birmingham, Cardiff, Doncaster/Sheffield (resumes 27 May 2013), Dublin (resumes 31 May 2013), Glasgow-International, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham/East Midlands [3]
Transaero Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo (resumes 31 May 2013), Moscow-Sheremetyevo (resumes 31 May 2013), St. Petersburg (resumes 17 May 2013), Yekaterinburg (begins 20 May 2013)[5]
Transavia.com Amsterdam (resumes 23 May 2013), Weeze (resumes 1 July 2013)[6]
Travel Service Airlines Brno (resumes 8 June 2013), Ostrava (resumes 8 June 2013), Pardubice (resumes 19 June 2013), Prague (resumes 21 May 2013)[3]
Travel Service Hungary Budapest (resumes 4 June 2013)[3]
Travel Service Poland Katowice (resumes 8 June 2013)[3]
Travel Service Slovakia Bratislava (resumes 15 June 2013), Košice (resumes 15 June 2013), Poprad/Tatry (resumes 18 June 2013), Sliač (resumes 16 June 2013)[3]
TUIfly Hannover (resumes 22 May 2013), Stuttgart (resumes 14 August 2013)
TUIfly Nordic Copenhagen (begins 28 May 2013), Gothenburg-Landvetter (resumes 11 June 2013), Helsinki (resumes 29 May 2013), Oslo-Gardermoen (resumes 18 June 2013)[3]
Ukraine International Airlines Kiev-Boryspil (resumes 24 May 2013)[3]
Ural Airlines Chelyabinsk (resumes 31 May 2013), Samara (resumes 28 May 2013), St. Petersburg (begins 28 May 2013), Ufa (resumes 27 May 2013)[3]
UTair Aviation Surgut (resumes 22 May 2013)
VIM Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo (resumes 31 May 2013)
Wind Rose Aviation Dnipropetrovsk (begins 8 June 2013), Donetsk (resumes 7 June 2013), Kharkiv (begins 7 June 2013), Kiev-Boryspil (resumes 24 May 2013), Lviv (begins 7 June 2013)[3]
XL Airways France Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 31 May 2013)
Yamal Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo (begins 3 June 2013)

Cargo airlines

AirlinesDestinations
Kalitta Air[7] charters
National Airlines[8] charters
Silk Way Airlines[9] charters

Destinations map

The maps incudes scheduled and charter destinations in Europe and part from Middle East.

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Traffic figures

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
Decrease 8%
324,563
Decrease 22%
339,297
Decrease 21.6%
5,722
Decrease 6.1%
2000
8,964
 Decrease 39.2%
389,051
 Increase 19.9%
398,015
 Increase 17.3%
5,224
Decrease 8.7%
2001
1,993
 Decrease 77.8%
592,403
 Increase 52.3%
594,396
 Increase 49.3%
5,633
Increase7.8%
2002
1,882
 Decrease 5.6%
765,594
 Increase 29.2%
767,476
 Increase 29.1%
6,515
Increase 15.6%
2003
1,858
 Decrease 1.3%
1,024,179
 Increase 33.8%
1,026,037
 Increase 33.7%
8,136
Increase 24.8%
2004
2,621
 Increase 41.1%
1,339,552
 Increase 30.8%
1,342,173
 Increase 30.8%
10,692
Increase 31.4%
2005
2,232
 Decrease 14.8%
1,553,398
 Increase 16%
1,555,603
 Increase 16%
11,842
Increase 10.7%
2006
1,504
 Decrease 32.6%
1,706,695
 Increase 9.9%
1,708,199
 Increase 9.8%
13,364
Increase 12.8%
2007
11,346
 Increase 654.4%
1,926,279
 Increase 12.9%
1,937,625
 Increase 13.4%
13,606
Increase 1.8%
2008
15,061
 Increase 32.7%
1,905,562
 Decrease 1.1%
1,920,623
 Decrease 0.8%
13,794
Increase 1.4%
2009
12,450
 Decrease 17.3%
1,671,336
 Decrease 12.3%
1,683,786
 Decrease 12.3%
11,956
Decrease 13.3%
2010
14,273
 Increase 14.6%
1,858,345
 Increase 11.2%
1,872,618
 Increase 11.2%
13,774
Increase 15.2%
2011[10]
77,789
 Increase 445%
2,151,256
 Increase 21.2%
2,229,045
 Increase 19%
19,215
Increase 19%
2012
69,244
Decrease 11%
2,287,621
Increase 6.3%
2,356,865
Increase 5.7%
16,961
Decrease 11.7%

Bus

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

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

Bus 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.[11]

Incidents and accidents

Burgas Airport

See also

References

  1. ^ Template:Bg icon http://cholakovv.com/bg/projects/followme
  2. ^ http://bulgariaflights.com/en/news/new-terminals-will-welcome-tourists-in-varna-and-bourgas-in-2013/50/
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai "Bourgas Airport Schedule". Information and Services. Bourgas Airport. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  4. ^ SAMair destinations map
  5. ^ Photos – Transaero at Burgas Airport (in Bulgarian)
  6. ^ Transavia.com destinations map
  7. ^ Photos – Kalitta Air at Burgas Airport (in Bulgarian)
  8. ^ Photos – National Airlines at Burgas Airport (in Bulgarian)
  9. ^ Photos – Silk Way Airlines at Burgas Airport (in Bulgarian)
  10. ^ http://www.fraport.com/content/fraport-ag/en/investor_relations/traffic_data0/fraport_group.html
  11. ^ http://www.bourgas-airport.com/PassengerServices/Parking/tabid/179/language/en-US/Default.aspx
  12. ^ http://www.timesofisrael.com/explosion-rocks-israeli-tour-bus-in-bulgaria Attack Ref 1
  13. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/world/europe/explosion-on-bulgaria-tour-bus-kills-at-least-five-israelis.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Attack Ref 2
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