THE AIRPORT PERSPECTIVE: Bulgaria

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG from its OAG Analyser network analysis tool.

BULGARIA DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2012)

1

Sofia (SOF)

17

2,052

47.5 %

33.2 %

2

Varna (VAR)

14

1,728

40 %

New Entrant

3

Bourgas (BOJ)

5

540

12.5 %

(-64.9) %

(Others)

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

36

4,320

-

40.3 %

HOME AIRPORT: BULGARIA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2012)

1

Sofia (SOF)

264

35,993

91.3 %

(-13.2) %

2

Varna (VAR)

11

1,234

3.1 %

New Entrant

3

Bourgas (BOJ)

6

1,145

2.9 %

(-51.0) %

4

Plovdiv (PDV)

5

1,071

2.7 %

2.2 %

(Others)

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

286

39,443

-

(-12.0) %

DESTINATION AIRPORT: BULGARIA INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airport

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2012)

1

Vienna Schwechat International (VIE)

51

6,268

15.9 %

17.1 %

2

Munich Franz Josef Strauss (MUC)

21

2,970

7.5 %

12.1 %

3

London Luton (LTN)

11

1,980

5.0 %

10.0 %

4

Istanbul Ataturk (IST)

11

1,805

4.6 %

22.6 %

5

Moscow Sheremetyevo (SVO)

13

1,784

4.5 %

(-19.3) %

6

Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG)

14

1,773

4.5 %

(-11.9) %

7

London Heathrow (LHR)

12

1,746

4.4 %

(-9.3) %

8

Moscow Domodedovo (DME)

9

1,734

4.4 %

66.7 %

9

London Gatwick (LGW)

9

1,620

4.1 %

(-10.7) %

10

Frankfurt Am Main International (FRA)

12

1,572

4.0 %

(-16.3) %

(Others)

123

16,191

41.0 %

(-28.6) %

TOTAL

286

39,443

-

(-12.0) %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…