Bulgaria’s Varna, Bourgas airports announce summer 2025 flight schedules

The summer 2025 flight schedules of Varna and Bourgas airports on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast were announced on March 26 by concession-holder Fraport Twin Star Management.

At Varna Airport, Wizz Air is introducing an entirely new route between Abu Dhabi (UAE) and Varna, opening the door to the rapidly growing Middle Eastern market, the statement said. Additionally, the airline is basing a second aircraft in Varna and resuming flights to Frankfurt Hahn, Nuremberg (Germany), and Tel Aviv (Israel) from April 14.

Starting April 29, Wizz Air will also operate a twice-weekly year-round route to Leipzig (Germany) – the airport’s first-ever year-round connection with this German city.

This brings Wizz Air’s total number of routes from Varna to 13 destinations, including: London Luton and London Gatwick (UK), Berlin, Dortmund, Memmingen, Hamburg, Frankfurt Hahn, Nuremberg, Leipzig (Germany), Brussels Charleroi (Belgium), Eindhoven (Netherlands), Tel Aviv, and Abu Dhabi (UAE).

From April 17, national carrier Bulgaria Air will launch a new direct route between Varna and Paris Charles de Gaulle (France), operating twice weekly. Additionally, from mid-April, the airline is increasing domestic flights between Varna and Sofia from 18 to 23 flights per week.

In June, Bulgaria Air will resume flights to Frankfurt (Germany) and Prague (Czech Republic), providing passengers with highly convenient global connections.

Varna Airport continues to expand its regular flight schedule with the following:

• Transavia France will operate weekly flights between Paris Orly (France) and Varna for the second consecutive year, every Friday from May 9 until the end of October.
• Volotea will resume flights from Nantes and Lille (France) to Varna starting April 8.
• Discover Airlines will begin flights from Frankfurt (Germany) on April 12, increasing frequency from 2 to 4 flights per week in May. The airline will also resume its Munich route (3 weekly flights) from April 30.
• Turkish Airlines is increasing flights to Istanbul (Turkey) from 7 to 11 weekly.
• Austrian Airlines will operate 10 weekly flights to Vienna (Austria) during the summer season.
• Air Serbia will resume flights between Belgrade (Serbia) and Varna on June 2, increasing frequency from 3 to 4 flights per week in July.
• SAS Scandinavian Airlines will launch scheduled flights between Copenhagen (Denmark) and Varna for the first time ever on June 26.
• Ryanair will resume flights from Vienna (Austria) on March 31 and will add Krakow and Katowice (Poland) to its network in June.

Varna Airport’s charter flight program is expected to see double-digit growth in the German market and a significant increase in other key markets:

• Germany – On May 16, the first German charter flights will begin, operated by Electra Airways in partnership with SunExpress. This project will provide direct flights between Burgas and 7 German airports: Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich, and Stuttgart.
• The return of SunExpress is very important for the connection of Germany and contributes significantly to the overall increase of the traffic from and to Germany.
• Austria – Senioren Reisen returns with charter flights from Linz and Salzburg in late April, marking the first flights on this route since 2018.
• Poland, Czech Republic, and Scandinavian countries – Charter flights from these countries will commence in late May and early June.
• Switzerland – Edelweiss Air will double its flight frequency between Zurich and Varna this summer.

On March 30, Bourgas airport will officially open the season with a special welcome for the first tourists arriving on a Ryanair flight from Krakow (Poland).

Ryanair continues to strengthen its presence at Burgas Airport with 10 routes for Summer 2025:

• Starting in March: Krakow, Warsaw Modlin (Poland), and London Luton (UK);
• From May: Vienna (Austria);
• From June: Dublin (Ireland), Budapest (Hungary), Bratislava (Slovakia), Poznan, Gdansk (Poland), and Kaunas (Lithuania).

In addition to its year-round London Luton (UK) flights, Wizz Air will resume flights to 6 major European destinations in June:

• Vienna (Austria)
• Budapest (Hungary)
• Gdansk, Katowice, Lublin, and Warsaw (Poland)

The national carrier Bulgaria Air will resume domestic flights between Sofia and Bourgas in the second half of June (4 flights per week), increasing to daily flight frequency in July.

For the first time ever, Austrian Airlines will launch a new scheduled route from Vienna (Austria), with three weekly flights from mid-June. This route will offer not only direct flights but also convenient connections worldwide.

Discover Airlines (Lufthansa Group) will once again operate flights between Frankfurt (Germany) and Bourgas from early May, and in July, it will add a new route to Munich (Germany).

Eurowings will resume flights from Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Cologne, and Hamburg (Germany) in June, followed by the return of its Salzburg (Austria) route in July.

Jet2.com is expanding its flights to Bourgas, offering flights from 10 of its 13 UK bases. A highlight for travellers is the return of the Edinburgh route by the airline, which will be operated for the first time since 2022, the statement said.

EasyJet will launch its summer schedule in June, starting with flights from Manchester (UK), followed by London Gatwick (UK) and Berlin (Germany) at the end of the same month.

For the first time, Norwegian will operate scheduled flights from Riga (Latvia) to Bourgas, in addition to its traditional routes from: Helsinki (Finland), Stockholm (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Oslo, Trondheim, and Bergen (Norway).

Bourgas Airport’s charter flight program will start in early May, welcoming the first organized tourists from Poland, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

On May 16, the first German charter flights will begin, operated by Electra Airways in partnership with SunExpress. This project will provide direct flights between Bourgas and seven German airports: Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hanover, Leipzig, Munich, and Stuttgart.

The return of SunExpress is very important for the connection of Germany and contributes significantly to the overall increase of the traffic from and to Germany by 71 per cent compared to 2024, the statement said.