Burgas Airport opened the summer season with a renovated runway and a regular flight from Warsaw

Over the weekend, the first flight of the tourist season was welcomed with water salutes and a festive mood

Burgas Airport, part of Fraport Twin Star, gave a symbolic start to the active summer season of 2022, welcoming the first tourists on the renewed pavement of the runway with water arches and surprises for the passengers.  

The official start of the long-awaited season was given on Saturday (April 9, 2022), when the first regular flight on the Warsaw-Burgas route, operated by Ryanair, landed full of passengers, who were surprised with symbolic gifts and a spectacular water salute.

Thus, as of April 9, 2022, the airline started its summer flight program with twice more flights compared to 2021 and will operate flights to 7 destinations:  

• London Luton, UK;
• Gdansk, Krakow, and Warsaw, Poland;
• Vienna, Austria;
• Budapest, Hungary;
• Bratislava, Slovakia.  

This summer, WizzAir will have its base at Burgas Airport and will operate a total of 18 routes, 4 of which are new to the company for Burgas Airport:  

• London Gatwick, Great Britain - from 15.06.2022;
• Debrecen, Hungary - from 02.06.2022;
• Krakow - from 01.08.2022, and Rzeszow, Poland - from 19.06.2022  

This year, Poland is expected to be the leading market for Burgas Airport again, with charter and scheduled flights from/to 10 Polish destinations. EasyJet also added another route to its flight program for Burgas Airport – from/to Manchester, United Kingdom, starting from 01.07.2022.

Three new destinations to Romania are also being planned:  

• For the first time, there will be direct flights from/to Bucharest by the Bulgarian airline GullivAir, starting from 16.06.2022;
• Direct charter flights to Cluj by European Air Charter from 01.06.2022, and regular flights by Blue Air from 22.06.2022.
• For the first time, there will be direct charter flights from/to Timisoara, operated by European Air Charter from 01.06.2022;

In addition, two new airlines are expected to operate for the first time at Burgas Airport:

• The Danish airline Jettime will offer direct charter flights to three Scandinavian destinations - Copenhagen and Billund, Denmark, as well as Helsinki, Finland, starting from 22.06.2022;
• Lithuanian airline Heston Airlines is also a new airline for the airport. It’s also planning to operate charter flights to/from Tel Aviv, Israel.

And this year there will be direct flights from/to Sofia:  

• With GullivAir - in the summer, the airline will increase the frequency of their flights and fly daily.
• Bulgaria Air has announced that they will operate between three and eight flights a week, starting from June 17, 2022.

“Fraport Twin Star Airport Management” AD will take all efforts to further increase the number of destinations to Burgas and Varna airports and to improve their infrastructure, especially in these times of a challenging outlook for tourism from Russia and Ukraine.