Burgas Airport

Burgas Airport
Летище Бургас

IATA: BOJ – ICAO: LBBG

BOJ
Location of airport in Bulgaria

Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Fraport
Operator Fraport Twin Star Airport Management
Serves Burgas, Bulgaria
Location Burgas, Bulgaria
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 41 m / 135 ft
Coordinates 42°34′13″N 027°30′55″E / 42.57028°N 27.51528°E / 42.57028; 27.51528Coordinates: 42°34′13″N 027°30′55″E / 42.57028°N 27.51528°E / 42.57028; 27.51528
Website burgas-airport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
04/22 3,200 10,500 Concrete
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 2,360,320 Decrease
Aircraft movements 18,271 Decrease
Source: Belgian AIP at EUROCONTROL

Burgas Airport (IATA: BOJ, ICAO: LBBG), (Bulgarian: Летище Бургас, Letishte Burgas) 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 kilometres from the city centre. Between the airport and the city centre is located the Lake Atanasovsko. The airport serves Burgas and seaside resorts of Bulgarian south coast. In 2014, the airport handled 2,522,319 passengers, a 2.0% increase compared to 2013.

History

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.[1]

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

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 31 check-in desks and covers 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 new terminal was completed in 2013 and has been in service since December 2013.[2]

Only Terminal 2 is handling passenger traffic at Burgas Airport. Terminal 1, which was built in the 1950s and expanded in the early 1990s, had become functionally obsolete and ceased operations in late 2013 following the opening of the new state-of-the-art Terminal 2, which now handles the entire airport passengers 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.

Burgas Airport has the fourth runway length on the Balkans (3,200 metres (10,500 ft)) after Athens Airport, Sofia Airport and Belgrade Airport.

Airlines and destinations

There are domestic and international flights to about 109 destinations in 31 countries, by more than 57 Bulgarian and foreign airlines (season 2015). The busiest season for the airport is from the end of April to the beginning of October.

Scheduled flights

AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Seasonal: Dublin
Aeroflot
operated by Rossiya Airlines		 Seasonal: Saint Petersburg
airBaltic Seasonal: Riga[3]
BH Air Seasonal: Aberdeen, Belfast-International, Billund, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Copenhagen, Doncaster/Sheffield, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Humberside, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham/East Midlands, Zürich
Bulgaria Air Sofia, Varna
Seasonal: Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Saint Petersburg, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion[4]
Dniproavia Seasonal: Dnipropetrovsk (begins 10 June 2016)[5]
Germania Seasonal: Berlin-Schönefeld (begins 31 May 2016), Bremen, Munich (begins 9 June 2016), Münster/Osnabrück, Rostock (begins 7 June 2016)
Germania Flug Seasonal: Zurich (begins 30 June 2016)[6]
Israir Airlines Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (begins 6 July 2016)[7]
JetairflySeasonal: Brussels, Ostend/Bruges[8]
Luxair Seasonal: Luxembourg
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Copenhagen, Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
S7 Airlines Moscow-Domodedovo
Seasonal: Novosibirsk[9]
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service[10]		 Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava, Pardubice, Prague
SmartWings
operated by Travel Service Slovakia[10]		 Seasonal: Bratislava, Košice
SunExpress Deutschland Seasonal: Frankfurt,[11] Hannover,[11] Leipzig/Halle (begins 24 June 2016)[11]
Thomas Cook Airlines Seasonal: Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, London-Stansted, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cardiff (begins 28 May 2016)[12]
Thomas Cook Airlines
operated by SmartLynx Airlines		 Seasonal: London-Gatwick (begins 21 May 2016)[13]
Thomson AirwaysSeasonal: Belfast-International, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham/East Midlands[9]
TransaviaSeasonal: Amsterdam[14]
Ural AirlinesSeasonal: Samara, Yekaterinburg
Windrose Airlines Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil (begins 3 June 2016)[15]
Wizz Air London-Luton
Seasonal: Budapest, Katowice, Warsaw-Chopin

Charter flights

This list includes airlines and destinations which will operated charter flights to and from Burgas airport for summer 2016.

AirlinesDestinations
Air VIA Seasonal: Dresden, Erfurt/Weimar (resumes 2 June 2016), Frankfurt, Hannover, Leipzig/Halle, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
ALK Airlines Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (begins 2 June 2016)
Arkia Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (begins 30 June 2016)
ASL Airlines France Seasonal: Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 12 July 2016)
ASL Airlines Ireland Seasonal: Dublin (begins 31 May 2016)
Aviolet Seasonal: Belgrade (begins 20 June 2016)
Azur Air Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo, Perm (begins 6 June 2016), Rostov-on-Don (begins 16 May 2016), Saint Petersburg (begins 16 May 2016), Surgut, Syktyvkar (begins 27 May 2016), Tyumen (begins 2 June 2016), Voronezh (begins 16 May 2016),[16] Yekaterinburg (begins 16 May 2016)
Azur Air Ukraine Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil (begins 31 May 2016)
Belavia Seasonal: Brest, Gomel, Hrodna, Minsk-National, Mogilev, Vitebsk
BH Air Seasonal: Alesund, Almaty (begins 8 June 2016), Astana (resumes 22 June 2016),[17] Bari (begins 19 July 2016), Beirut, Bergen, Billund (begins 20 June 2016), Brussels (begins 26 May 2016), Copenhagen (resumes 5 June 2016), Harstad/Narvik, Haugesund, Tromso, Trondheim
BRA Seasonal: Gothenburg-Landvetter, Malmö
Bravo Airways Seasonal: Kharkiv (begins 23 June 2016), Kiev-Zhuliany (begins 7 June 2016), Lviv (begins 23 June 2016)
Bulgaria Air Seasonal: Belfast-International (begins 25 June 2016), Bergen (begins 21 June 2016), Billund, Copenhagen, Dublin (begins 23 June 2016), Düsseldorf (begins 24 June 2016), Frankfurt (begins 31 May 2016), Hamburg (begins 25 June 2016), Kuwait, Leipzig/Halle (begins 1 June 2016), Pardubice
Bulgarian Air Charter Seasonal: Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Schonefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Bratislava, Budapest, Cologne/Bonn, Debrecen, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Erfurt/Weimar, Frankfurt, Graz, Hamburg, Katowice, Košice, Leipzig/Halle, Linz (resumes 28 June 2016), Munich, Nuremberg (resumes 14 May 2016), Paderborn/Lippstadt, Poprad, Poznań, Prague, Rzeszów, Sliač, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Vienna, Warsaw-Chopin, Wroclaw
Condor Seasonal: Manchester
Corendon Dutch Airlines Seasonal: Amsterdam[9]
Dart Aviaiton Seasonal: Kiev-Zhuliany, Lviv (begins 16 June 2016)
Dniproavia Seasonal: Lviv (begins 13 June 2016), Odessa (begins 26 June 2016)
Enter Air Seasonal: Katowice, Kraków, Poznań, Warsaw-Chopin, Wroclaw[18]
Eurowings Seasonal: Düsseldorf (begins 15 May 2016)
Gazpromavia Seasonal: Moscow-Vnukovo (resumes 15 June 2016)
Germania Seasonal: Düsseldorf
Germanwings Seasonal: Berlin-Tegel (begins 4 July 2016), Stuttgart
I-Fly Seasonal: Moscow-Vnukovo
Israir Airlines Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion (begins 27 May 2016)
Jet Time Seasonal: Billund, Copenhagen (begins 28 June 2016), Helsinki (begins 23 May 2016)
Lufthansa Seasonal: Munich (begins 15 May 2016)
MetroJet Seasonal: Krasnodar (begins 31 May 2016), Moscow-Domodedovo, Saint Petersburg (begins 31 May 2016), Samara (begins 28 May 2016)
Niki Seasonal: Salzburg, Vienna
Nordavia Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo (begins 27 May 2016)
NordStar Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo (begins 3 June 2016), Saint Petersburg
Nordwind Airlines Seasonal: Belgorod (begins 25 May 2016), Chelyabinsk (begins 18 May 2016), Kazan (begins 25 May 2016), Mineralnye Vody (begins 1 June 2016), Moscow-Domodedovo (begins 30 May 2016), Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Orenburg (begins 25 May 2016), Samara (begins 25 May 2016), Ufa (begins 24 May 2016)
Norwegian Air Shuttle Seasonal: Stavanger
Novair Seasonal: Oslo-Gardermoen
Pegas Fly Seasonal: Arkhangelsk (begins 5 June 2016), Irkutsk (begins 1 June 2016), Saint Petersburg (begins 10 June 2016), Yekaterinburg (begins 29 May 2016)
Saratov Airlines Seasonal: Saratov
Scandinavian Airlines Seasonal: Copenhagen (resumes 30 June 2016), Gothenburg-Landvetter, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger, Stockholm-Arlanda
Severstal Air Company Seasonal: Cherepovets
Small Planet Airlines Seasonal: Bremen (begins 22 June 2016), Innsbruck, Manchester (begins 12 June 2016), Paderborn/Lippstadt (begins 6 July 2016), Salzburg, Vilnius
Small Planet Airlines Poland Seasonal: Bydgoszcz[19], Gdansk, Katowice, Kraków (begins 14 June 2016), Lublin (begins 20 June 2016), Paris-Charles de Gaulle (begins 19 July 2016), Poznań (begins 14 June 2016), Warsaw-Chopin
SmartLynx Airlines Seasonal: Riga
Smartlynx Airlines Estonia Seasonal: Tallinn
Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia Seasonal: Helsinki, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stavanger (begins 19 June 2016)
Transavia Seasonal: Brussels (begins 31 July 2016), Weeze
Travel Service Seasonal: Brno, Ostrava, Pardubice, Prague
Travel Service Hungary Seasonal: Budapest[9]
Travel Service Poland Seasonal: Poznań, Warsaw-Chopin
Travel Service Slovakia Seasonal: Bratislava, Košice, Poprad, Sliač
TUI Airlines Netherlands Seasonal: Amsterdam
TUIfly Nordic Seasonal: Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen (begins 13 June 2016), Stockholm-Arlanda
Ural Airlines Seasonal: Kazan (begins 23 May 2016), Moscow-Domodedovo (begins 23 May 2016), Nizhny Novgorod (begins 23 May 2016), Saint Petersburg (begins 23 May 2016), Volgograd (begins 27 May 2016)[20]
UTair Aviation Seasonal: Moscow-Vnukovo
VIM Airlines Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo (resumes 5 June 2015), Saint Petersburg (begins 30 May 2016)
Voyage Air Seasonal: Gdańsk (begins 3 June 2016), Katowice (begins 31 May 2016), Poznań (begins 3 June 2016), Warsaw-Chopin (begins 2 June 2016), Wroclaw (begins 3 June 2016) [21]
Yamal Airlines Seasonal: Moscow-Domodedovo
Yanair Seasonal: Kiev-Boryspil (begins 3 June 2016)

Statistics

Terminal 2
Control tower
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
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%
2013
44,780
 Decrease 34.3%
2,416,868
 Increase 2.5%
2,461,648
 Increase 4.4%
18,008
 Increase 6.2%
2014
36,589
 Decrease 18.3%
2,485,730
 Increase 2.8%
2,522,319
 Increase 2.6%
18,869
 Increase 0.8%
2015[22]
30,376
 Decrease 17%
2,329,944
 Decrease 7.3%
2,360,320[23]
 Decrease 6.7%
18,271
 Decrease 4.3%
2016 (01.01-31.03)[24]
Increase
Decrease
34,532
 Increase 15.4%
706
 Increase 28.4%

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".[25]

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.[26]

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.[27]

Incidents and accidents

See also

References

  1. ↑ (Bulgarian) http://cholakovv.com/bg/projects/followme
  2. ↑ http://www.airport-world.com/home/general-news/item/3413-new-terminal-at-burgas-airport-opens/
  3. ↑ J, L (13 March 2014). "airBaltic Adds Bourgas / Varna Seasonal Service in Summer 2014". Airline Route. Retrieved 13 March 2014.
  4. ↑ https://book.air.bg/plnext/bulgarianNew/Override.action#/FDCS
  5. ↑ Dniproavia schedule
  6. ↑ https://www.germania.ch/en/
  7. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/04/13/6h-s16/
  8. ↑ "Jetairfly Flight Plan". Jetairfly.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "Bourgas Airport Schedule". Information and Services. Bourgas Airport. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  10. 1 2 "SmartWings Flight schedule". smartwings.com.
  11. 1 2 3 http://airlineroute.net/2016/03/18/xg-s16update2/
  12. ↑ http://www.thomascookairlines.com/FlightTimetable.aspx
  13. ↑ https://www.thomascook.com/flights/
  14. ↑ Transavia.com destinations map
  15. ↑ http://airlineroute.net/2016/03/16/7w-s16/
  16. ↑ Супруненко, Михаил (22 March 2016). "Полеты из Воронежа в Болгарию начнутся с 16 мая". РИА «Воронеж». Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  17. ↑ http://www.inform.kz/rus/article/2885686
  18. ↑ Enter Air route map and destinations
  19. ↑ http://plb.pl/pl/flights/24
  20. ↑ L, J (26 April 2016). "Ural Airlines Adds New Bourgas Routes May – July 2016". Airline Route. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  21. ↑ Voyage Air summer 2016 schedule
  22. ↑ http://caa.bg/page.php?category=27
  23. ↑ http://www.fraport.de/content/fraport/de/misc/binaer/investor-relations/verkehrszahlen/2016/verkehrszahlen-dezember-2015/jcr:content.file/verkehrszahlen_2015_dezember.pdf
  24. ↑ http://www.fraport.de/content/fraport/de/misc/binaer/investor-relations/verkehrszahlen/2016/verkehrszahlen-maerz-2016/jcr:content.file/03-traffic-sheet-2016-maerz_deutsch.pdf
  25. ↑ http://www.bourgas-airport.com/Portals/0/How%20to%20get%20there%20by%20bus%20BOJ_ENG.pdf
  26. ↑ http://www.bourgas-airport.com/Portals/0/How%20to%20get%20there%20by%20taxi%20BOJ_ENG.pdf
  27. ↑ http://www.bourgas-airport.com/PassengerServices/Parking/tabid/179/language/en-US/Default.aspx
  28. ↑ http://www.timesofisrael.com/explosion-rocks-israeli-tour-bus-in-bulgaria Attack Ref 1
  29. ↑ 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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