Bulgarian Air Charter
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| Founded | 2000 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 14 | ||||||
| Destinations | Charters | ||||||
| Headquarters | Sofia, Bulgaria | ||||||
| Key people | Filip Mustakov, CEO | ||||||
| Website | bgaircharter.com | ||||||
Bulgarian Air Charter is a Bulgarian charter airline headquartered in Sofia and based at Sofia Airport.[1]
History
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Bulgarian Air Charter was established in 2000 and started operations on 14 December 2000 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Aviation Service Group. It operates flights for several tour operators to destinations mostly in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Israel and Poland. Since the period the airline was founded it has transported more than 3.5 million passengers. At present the company has 330 employees.[2]
The airline started operations with five Tupolev Tu-154s. In 2004 the airline retired these aircraft and replaced them with seven McDonnell Douglas MD-80. By 2011 the Bulgarian Air Charter fleet had grown to 12 MD-80s.
In September 2015 Bulgarian Air Charter added its first Airbus A320-200 to their fleet.[3]
Destinations
Bulgarian Air Charter operates charter services on behalf of tour operators from European destinations to the Bulgarian Black Sea airports Burgas Airport and Varna Airport during the summer season and from Plovdiv Airport and Sofia Airport during the winter. The airline also operates additional occasional charter flights to further destinations throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
Fleet
As of April 2016, the Bulgarian Air Charter fleet consists of the following aircraft:[4]
| Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Notes |
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| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 12 | — | 164 | 2 operated for Mistral Air |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-83 | 1 | — | 164 | |
| Airbus A320-200 | 1 | — | 180 | taken over from Cyprus Airways[5] |
| Total | 14 | — |
As of September 2015, Bulgarian Air Charter is the largest remaining McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series operator in Europe.[6]
The airline also used to operate Tupolev Tu-154s which have been meanwhile phased out.
Retired fleet
References
- ↑ Flight International 27 March 2007
- ↑ "Bulgarian Air Charter-About Us". Bulgarian Air Charter.
- ↑ "Bulgarian Air Charter". Airliner World: 7. November 2015.
- ↑ ch-aviation.com - Bulgarian Air Charter retrieved 6 December 2015
- ↑ http://www.planespotters.net/airframe/Airbus/A320/256/LZ-LAA-Bulgarian-Air-Charter
- ↑ ch-aviation.com - Aircraft search by type
External links
Media related to Bulgarian Air Charter at Wikimedia Commons
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