This summer season promises more travel opportunities and more tourists visiting the southern Black Sea coast
With new airlines, an expanded route network and a significant increase in the number of flights, the “sunniest airport on the Black Sea coast” is preparing for a busy tourist season.
∙ In March, flights will start from/to: Krakow, Warsaw Modlin (Poland) and London Luton (United Kingdom);
∙ From May: Vienna (Austria)
∙ In June: Dublin (Ireland), Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia), Poznan, Gdansk (Poland) and Kaunas (Lithuania).
In addition to year-round flights to London Luton (UK), Wizz Air will resume flights to 6 more key European destinations from June:
∙ Vienna (Austria)
∙ Budapest (Hungary)
∙ Gdansk, Katowice, Lublin, Warsaw (Poland).
The national air carrier Bulgaria Air is resuming domestic flights on the Sofia-Burgas route. Flights will begin in the second half of June with a frequency of 4 times a week, and from July they will become daily.
For the first time in history, Austrian Airlines is launching a new regular route from Vienna (Austria) this year with a frequency of 3 flights per week from mid-June. This connection provides not only direct flights, but also the possibility of convenient connections to all points of the world.
This year, Discover Airlines (Lufthansa Group) will connect Frankfurt (Germany) and Burgas with flights from the beginning of May, and from July it will also add a new route to Munich (Germany).
Eurowings will resume flights from four German cities in June – Dusseldorf, Stuttgart, Cologne and Hamburg – and will also resume the Salzburg (Austria) – Burgas route from July.
British airline Jet2.com is expanding its presence in Burgas and will fly from 10 of its 13 UK bases this year. Exciting news for all travellers will be the airline’s return to Edinburgh, which it will operate for the first time since 2022.
easyJet launched its summer schedule in June, initially resuming flights from Manchester (UK), and later that month adding London Gatwick (UK) and Berlin (Germany).
For the first time ever, Norwegian will operate scheduled flights from the Latvian capital Riga to Burgas in addition to its traditional routes from Helsinki (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Oslo, Trondheim and Bergen (Norway).
Overall traffic growth is expected to be double-digit in summer 2025, with significant growth also seen in Poland, Slovakia, Austria, Denmark and the Netherlands