Irish Company Starts Cheap Flights From The Airport in Plovdiv

The famous Irish low cost airplane company - Ryan air will open regular cheap flights from the international airport in Plovdiv to Germany, England and Spain. This was announced yesterday by the executive director of the airport Plamen Nikolov. It is expected the flights of the first worldwide low cost airplane company to start in August.
It is not accidental the fact that Plovdiv is the chosen town. The disposal of the town and its airport goes hand in hand with the philosophy of the company, which exactly is the existence of regular bus transport to the capital and the international resorts, also to historical finds. It is even already specified the exact airport that will take the landing planes in Germany, it will be in the town of Hahn, which is 80 km. away from Frankfurt.
The airports in Spain and England are still not chosen. The prices offered by the airplane company will be competitive to the prices of the bus tickets to the same destinations. Yesterday the transport minister in Bulgaria - Peter Mutafchiev, inspected the international airport, few days before the winter charter program to start. (It starts on 23-th of December)
The passenger’s terminal is renovated. 160 000 lv. were invested in the repair work. The most important part of the renovation is the new automatic luggage checking system, which is now in process of 72-hours testing. 480 passengers will be served per hour using the new equipment of the airport.
According to the minister of transport the airport will be ready to be given under concession in March 2007.


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