site.btaVarna Airport Announces Summer Season Flight Schedule

Varna Airport will operate flights to more than 60 destinations in more than 25 countries in the upcoming summer, airport operator Fraport Twin Star Airport Management AD said in a press release on Friday.

After Bulgaria's accession to the Schengen area by air on March 31, the national carrier Bulgaria Air will increases the frequency of its flights from Sofia to Varna and will operate three flights a day on weekdays and two flights each on Saturday and Sunday. 

On Aviation Day - April 12, the first summer tourists of the year will land in Varna, as Transavia France starts its direct scheduled flights from Paris (Orly Airport), which will be operated every Friday until the end of September. The last time the airline operated charter flights from Paris to Varna was in 2017, Fraport said. Like in 2023, the Volotea airline will operate between Nantes and Varna, together with the already established route between Lille and Varna. Flights on these routes resume on April 23.

Also from April, Turkish Airlines will increase the frequency of flights from Istanbul to Varna, with an expected 11 flights per week, while Austrian Airlines will operate flights connecting Varna and Vienna daily from the middle of April. 

On July 1, Air Serbia will resume direct flights from Belgrade to Varna four times a week, which will allow connections with many other destinations to which the airline operates regular flights throughout Europe, the USA, Russian Federation and China. 

On May 3, Discover Airlines will launch a new flight route from Munich to Varna twice a week. The airline will also operate regular flights from Frankfurt to Varna three times a week from the end of April.

The low-cost company Ryanair has already resumed flights from Vienna to Varna in mid-March, and from the beginning of June it will resume flights from Katowice and Krakow (Poland), as well as from Vilnius (Lithuania). Another low-cost carrier, Wizz Air, will continue to operate flights to Berlin, Dortmund, Hamburg, Memmingen (Germany), London Luton (UK), Charleroi (Belgium) and Eindhoven (Netherlands).

The first charter flights from Germany will start in mid-May, with two new airlines, Fly Lili and TUI Deutschland, operating charter flights from Hanover to Varna in 2024. From the second half of May, charter flights from Poland and the Scandinavian countries will start, while at the beginning of June flights from the Czech Republic will also operate.

Earlier on Friday, Burgas Airport also announced their summer season flight schedule.