Varna Airport

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Varna International Airport
IATA: VAR - ICAO: LBWN
Summary
Airport type		public
Operator		Varna Airport ltd.
Serves		Varna
Elevation AMSL		230 ft (70 m)
Coordinates		43°13′55″N, 27°49′30″E
Website		www.varna-airport.bg
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
09/27	8,202	2,500	Asphalt

Varna International Airport (IATA: VAR, ICAO: LBWN) is the airport of Varna, the sea capital of Bulgaria.

Contents 1 History 2 Future plans and expansion 3 Seasonal destinations & airlines 3.1 Scheduled airlines 4 Destinations 5 External links 6 See also

[edit] History

The history of the airport dates back to 1916 when two sheds for the first hydro-port in Bulgaria were built in the Peinerdzhik area (present-day Chaika residential area). Irregular mail-plane service from Sofia to Varna was held between 1919 and 1920 and it was not until 1947 that a permanent airline between the two cities was established. What had grown into Tihina Airport was situated west of the present-day Asparukhovo Bridge and was indeed quite primitive for the demands of a modern city. Thus in 1946 a decision was made and a new airport was constructed several kilometres west of the city, near the village (now town) of Aksakovo, with local people enthusiastically working on the site together with the constructors. Construction and improvement continued throughout the years, with a new terminal erected in 1972 and a new runaway in 1974.

[edit] Future plans and expansion

Currently, Varna International Airport is subject to heavy traffic following the growing tourist industry in Bulgaria and is in need of major investments to modernize, expand and handle projected passenger traffic. In June, 2006 the Bulgarian Government awarded FRAPORT AG Frankfurt Airport Services Worldwide a 35 year long concession on both Varna and Burgas airports in return for investments exceeding €500 million, including a new passenger terminal by 2008.

[edit] Seasonal destinations & airlines

Air Via AeroSvit Atlant-Soyuz Balkan Holidays Airlines Bulgarian Air Charter Centralwings Condor Continental Airways East Line Airlines EirJet Finnair First Choice Airways

Germanwings LTU Luxair MyTravel Airways Norwegian Novair Pulkovo S7 Airlines SkyEurope Sterling Airlines- Copehnagen [starts May 15, 2008] Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium Thomas Cook Airlines UK Transavia Airlines Jetairfly

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[edit] Scheduled airlines

• Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
• British Airways (London Gatwick)
• Bulgaria Air (Burgas, London Gatwick, Sofia, Vienna)
• Malev (Budapest Ferihegy Airport)
• South Airlines (Odessa Airport)
• Wizzair (Sofia) [starts July 13, 2008]

[edit] Destinations

Amsterdam Baden-Baden Basel Beirut Belfast International Bergen Berlin - Schoenefeld Berlin - Tegel Billund Birmingham Bordeaux Bratislava Bremen Bristol Brno Brussels Budapest Cologne Copenhagen Dortmund Dresden Dublin Dusseldorf Erfurt Frankfurt Friedrichshafen

Goteborg Hannover Helsinki - Vantaa Istanbul - Ataturk Katowice Klagenfurt Kosice Kuwait International Leipzig Lille Linz Ljubljana London - Gatwick Lulea Luxembourg Lyon Malmö Manchester Marseille Metz Moscow - Domodedovo Moscow - Sheremetyevo Moscow - Vnukovo Mulhouse Munich

Munster Nantes Novosibirsk Nurberg Oslo Ostrava Paderborn Pardubice Paris - Charles De Gaulle Poznan Prague Rostock Saarbrucken Sofia St. Petersburg - Pulkovo Stavanger Stockholm - Arlanda Strassburg Stuttgart Tel Aviv Toulouse Trondheim Umea Vienna Warsaw

[edit] External links

• Varna Airport Homepage
• History of Varna Airport

[edit] See also

• List of the largest airports in the South Slavic countriesbg:Летище Варна

de:Flughafen Warna ja:ヴァルナ空港 pl:Port lotniczy Warna