Bulgaria Air

Bulgaria Air България Ер
IATA code :	FB
ICAO code :	LZB
Call sign :	FLYING BULGARIA
Founding:	2002
Seat:	Sofia , Bulgaria
Turnstile :	Sofia airport
Home airport :	Sofia airport
IATA prefix code :	623
Management:	Janko Georgiew ( CEO )
Frequent Flyer Program :	Fly More
Fleet size:	9
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.air.bg

Bulgaria Air ( Bulgarian България Ер ) is the national airline of Bulgaria based in Sofia and based at Sofia Airport .

history

Bulgaria Air was founded in 2002 as the successor to the insolvent Balkan Bulgarian Airlines . By order of the Bulgarian Minister for Transport and Communication, it was declared the flag carrier of Bulgaria in November 2002 . This gave it the license to operate some of the most profitable Bulgarian air routes.

Flight operations began in December 2002 with the acquisition of the flights of the Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, the bankruptcy was filed.

From 2005 Bulgaria Air was privatized. In 2007 the Bulgarian airline Hemus Air took over 99.9% of the chairmanship of Bulgaria Air, promising to pay a further 86 million euros for the expansion of the fleet. As part of these investments, Bulgaria Air will receive 15 new aircraft to expand its route network and its competitiveness.

Since 2007, the three Bulgarian companies Bulgaria Air, Hemus Air and Viaggio Air have finally been owned by Hemus Air and thus the Balkan Hemus Group with joint management. Since September 2007, all flight numbers for Bulgaria Air, Hemus Air and Viaggio Air flights have had the IATA code FB of Bulgaria Air. In the course of standardization, the two brand names Hemus Air and Viaggio Air have completely disappeared since the beginning of 2009. The Bulgaria Air brand is the only one of the three to be retained. Bulgaria Air bundles the destinations, planes and routes of all three companies in one.

In 2016 Bulgaria Air founded a charter airline called Bul Air .

Destinations

Bulgaria Air mainly flies from Sofia to numerous metropolises and holiday destinations in Europe . In German-speaking countries, there are flights to Berlin , Frankfurt am Main , Vienna and Zurich .

Code sharing

Bulgaria Air has codeshare agreements with the following airlines:

Aeroflot Aegean Airlines Air France

Air Serbia Alitalia Austrian Airlines

Czech Airlines El Al Iberia

KLM TAROM Virgin Atlantic

fleet

Bulgaria Air Airbus A319-100

Bulgaria Air's Embraer 190

As of March 2020, Bulgaria Air's fleet consists of nine aircraft with an average age of 10.6 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats ( Business / Economy )
Airbus A319-100	2			140 (8/132)
Airbus A320-200	3			180 (- / 180)
Embraer 190	4th			108 (- / 108)
total	9	-

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Bulgaria Air  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bulgaria Air website (Bulgarian, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ch-aviation - Bulgaria's Bul Air secures Kosovo charter contract (English), accessed on November 23, 2016
2. ↑ air.bg - Timetable & destinations ( Memento of the original dated November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed January 26, 2017 
3. ↑ air.bg - Partners ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed January 26, 2017 
4. ^ Bulgaria Air Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 1, 2020 . 
5. ↑ air.bg - Fleet ( Memento of the original dated November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on November 1, 2014