The seven millionth passenger for this year has landed at Sofia Airport on an El Al flight from Tel Aviv. Her name is Vicky Almog who visits Bulgaria twice a year, because she has relatives in this country and loves the beautiful local nature and delicious food. The year 2019 has been the best year for Bulgaria's largest international airport for far. In November alone, 522,000 passengers flew from Sofia Airport and air traffic saw an increase of 7.25% as compared to 2018.
A total of 22 airlines serving 57 destinations operate at Sofia Airport. Four new destinations have been launched in 2019 - to Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Marseilles and East Midland.
Overnight it will be mostly clear. Winds will weaken and die down in many areas. In the morning it will be cold, with minimum temperatures between minus 7 and minus 2°C, reaching minus 10°C in the valleys and around minus 9°C in Sofia. Tomorrow will be..
The planned annual maintenance of Unit 6 of Bulgaria's only NPP, Kozloduy, has been completed. The unit was connected to the national grid at 10:07 following an inspection by the Nuclear Regulatory Agency. In addition to the repairs made to improve..
A quadripartite meeting of the interior ministers of Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Romania in Budapest on 22 November made it clear that Austria would lift its veto and that Bulgaria and Romania would probably become full members of Schengen from the..
“It’s time to lift internal border controls now,” European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson believes. In an interview with RFE/RL she..
The Constitutional Court has opened a case following the request by President Rumen Radev for the amendments to the Constitution, endorsed by the 49 th..
Romania and Bulgaria have a chance to join the Schengen area by land as of January 2025 , Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pinter said after an..
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