BUDGET CARRIERS INCREASE FLIGHTS TO BULGARIA
Low cost carrier Wizz Air Monday announced it will add new destinations to and from Bulgaria with its summer flight timetable. Starting in June, Wizz Air will fly from Bulgarian coastal city Burgas to Budapest, Katowice and Warsaw. Flights to Budapest will be available from another Bulgarian coastal city, Varna. It the moment, Wizz Air flies only to London from Burgas, a route serviced by rivals Bulgaria Air, Hemus Air and British Airways.
The carrier expects to fly 150,000 passengers to and from Bulgaria in 2007.
Budget carrier Sky Europe recently said it was launching a Mon-Sat Sofia-Vienna route from March 26.
Sky Europe marketing and sales director Krasimir Tanev expects the share of no-frills carriers of Bulgaria's aviation market to increase from 7-8% at present to 20% by the end of 2007.
Ryan Air is expected to open this year routes from Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second biggest city, to Britain, Spain and Germany.
Italy's Myair and German Wings are also due to start operating to and from Sofia this summer.
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