Varna airport
| Varna airport | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | LBWN | ||
| IATA code | VAR | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 70 m (230 ft ) | ||
| Transport links | |||
| Distance from the city center | 8 km west of Varna | ||
| Street | E70, E87 | ||
| Basic data | |||
| opening | 1947 | ||
| operator | "Fraport Twin Star Airport Management" AG | ||
| surface | 223.1 ha | ||
| Terminals | 1 | ||
| Passengers | 1,970,930 (2019) | ||
| Air freight | 123 t (2019) | ||
| Flight movements |
15,468 (2019) | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 09/27 | 2517 m × 45 m asphalt | ||
The Varna Airport ( IATA code VAR , ICAO code LBWN , bulg. Летище Варна, Letishte Varna ) is a Bulgarian airport eight kilometers west of Varna . It is the busiest airport in Bulgaria after the airports of Sofia and Burgas and is managed by Fraport .
history
The first mail plane landed in Varna-Tichana in 1919, but the line only worked for a month. Flight operations were only resumed in 1947 with the Sofia-Varna line. In the first year, 23 passengers were transported on a total of six flights. The new Varna airport was opened on May 9, 1948, but it was not until 1961 that it received a 2500 meter long and 24–26 centimeter thick concrete runway and landing lights.
A new airport building came into operation in 1972, it housed the administration, the technical department and the handling of domestic and international flights. Due to the increase in traffic and larger aircraft, an improvement in the asphalt surface became necessary, and the thickness of the runway was increased in 1974.
In 2006 the Bulgarian government awarded a 35-year concession for the airports of Warna and Burgas to the German company Fraport , the operator of the airport in Frankfurt am Main , after the Danish Copenhagen Airports A / S left.
The runway was renewed and paved in 2011–2012. The new terminal went into operation in August 2013.
Airlines and Destinations
In the 2018/19 winter flight schedule, Dortmund , Memmingen and Vienna will be served in the German-speaking region . In the summer flight schedule 2019 also Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden , Berlin-Schönefeld , Berlin-Tegel , Cologne / Bonn , Dresden , Düsseldorf , Erfurt-Weimar , Frankfurt , Friedrichshafen , Hamburg , Hanover-Langenhagen , Leipzig / Halle , Munich , Münster / Osnabrück , Nuremberg , Stuttgart and Zurich .
Traffic figures
| year | Passenger volume | Air freight ( tons ) | Flight movements |
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| 2019 | 1,970,930 | 123 | 15,468 |
| 2018 | 2,281,134 | 136 | 17,776 |
| 2017 | 1,970,700 | 229 | 15,950 |
| 2016 | 1,689,595 | 3,293 | 14,818 |
| 2015 | 1,398,694 | - | 11,959 |
| 2014 | 1,387,494 | 74 | 12,063 |
| 2013 | 1,319,240 | 35 | 11,516 |
| 2012 | 1,221,468 | 33 | 10,739 |
| 2011 | 1,181,832 | 41 | 11,263 |
| 2010 | 1,227,442 | 77 | 12,577 |
| 2009 | 1,704,000 |
Accidents and incidents
- On June 5, 1992 a Tupolev 154B from Balkan Bulgarian Airlines rolled over runway 27 in bad weather. There were no casualties, but the plane was written off.
- On May 24, 2013, an Airbus A320-200 from Air Via ( aircraft registration LZ-MDR ) coming from Leipzig / Halle rolled over the runway in strong gusts of wind and stopped in a nearby field. During the subsequent evacuation, two passengers suffered broken bones.
- On July 8, 2014, the airport hit the headlines for the strange disappearance of Lars Mittank . The then 28-year-old German vacationer left the airport building in panic and was last seen on security cameras as he escaped over a fence into a field behind. Since then there has been no trace of him.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Statistic information about International Airports in Republic of Bulgaria. In: caa.bg. Aviation Authority of Bulgaria (CAA), accessed on May 23, 2020 (English).
- ↑ https://fly.rocketroute.com/plates/adminview/AIP-LB_LBWN_AIP.pdf?cmd=pdf&docid=400000000098536&icao=LBWN ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Traffic Figures. Fraport.com , accessed on May 24, 2020 (English).
Web links
- Aeronautical map for Varna Airport on SkyVector.com
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- varna-airport.com official website (bulg./deutsch/engl./russ.)
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