| Varna Airport Letishte Varna |
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| IATA: VAR – ICAO: LBWN
Varna Airport
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Operator | Fraport Twin Star Airport Management | ||
| Location | Varna, Bulgaria | ||
| Hub for | |||
| Elevation AMSL | 70 m / 230 ft | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
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| 09/27 | 2,500 | 8,202 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers | 1,227,422 | ||
Varna Airport (Bulgarian: Летище Варна, Letishte Varna) (IATA: VAR, ICAO: LBWN) is the airport of Varna, the historical maritime capital of Bulgaria.
In 2008, the airport handled 1,432,703 passengers and 15,129 aircraft movements.[1] In 2009, it handled 1,220,181 passengers and 12,699 aircraft movements, a respective 15.6% and 15.2% decrease compared to 2008.[1]
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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 Asparukhov 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 runway in 1974.
There are domestic and international flights to about 70 destinations in 25 countries, more than 100 Bulgarian and foreign airlines. The airport is close to the Port of Varna and the railway system. The airport has one concrete pavement runway 09/27 with ILS CAT I system on 09 edge and a parking apron for 24 aircraft.
Currently, Varna Airport is subject to heavy traffic with the growing tourism 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.
From 15 October 2011 until 28 February 2012, Varna airport will be closed for a reconstruction of the runaway. All flights will be operated on Bourgas Airport.[2]
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Moldova | Seasonal: Chişinău |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna [resumes 29 February] |
| Bulgaria Air | Sofia [resumes 1 March] Seasonal: London-Gatwick, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Moscow-Vnukovo |
| Edelweiss Air | Seasonal: Zurich [begins 6 July] |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Seasonal: Katowice |
| Luxair | Seasonal: Luxembourg |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest [resumes 1 March] |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Seasonal: Oslo-Gardermoen |
| Rossiya | Seasonal: St.Petersburg |
| S7 Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo [resumes 26 March] |
| Tatarstan Airlines | Seasonal: Kazan |
| Ural Airlines | Seasonal: Samara, Yekaterinburg |
| Wizz Air | London-Luton [resumes 27 March] |
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Air Bucharest | Tehran-Imam Khomeini |
| Air VIA | Berlin-Schönefeld, Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle [begins 11 May], Munich, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion |
| Belavia | Minsk |
| BH Air | Billund, Birmingham, East Midlands, Gdansk, Katowice, London-Gatwick, Manchester, Newcastle, Warsaw |
| Bulgaria Air | Antalya, Basel-Mulhouse, Brussels, Helsinki-Vantaa, Kuwait, Larnaca, Ljubljana, Naples, St.Petersburg, Tallinn, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Toulouse, Vilnius |
| Bulgarian Air Charter | Antalya, Bari, Beirut, Berlin-Schönefeld, Berlin-Tegel, Billund, Bratislava, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Katowice, Kuwait, Leipzig/Halle, Munich, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Paderborn/Lippstadt, Pardubice, Stuttgart, Tehran-Imam Khomeini, Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion, Vienna, Warsaw, Wroclaw, Yerevan |
| Donavia | Rostov |
| Enter Air | Katowice, Warsaw |
| Finnair | Helsinki-Vantaa |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn |
| Globus | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Hamburg Airways | Düsseldorf, Hamburg |
| Helvetic Airways | Zurich |
| Iran Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini |
| Jetairfly | Bourgas, Brussels |
| Khors Air | Kharkov |
| Kish Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini |
| Kolavia | Surgut |
| Kuban Airlines | Krasnodar |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Lodz, Poznan, Warsaw |
| Mahan Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini |
| Malmö Aviation | Copenhagen |
| Nordavia | Arkhangelsk, Moscow-Sheremetyevо |
| NordStar | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Orenair | Novosibirsk |
| Primera Air | Billund, Copenhagen, Helsinki-Vantaa |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman-Queen Alia |
| RusLine | Belgorod, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, Voronezh |
| S7 Airlines | Novosibirsk |
| Saravia | Saratov, Volgograd |
| SAS Scandinavian Airlines | Gothenburg, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Sky Express | Kaliningrad |
| Small Planet Airlines | Vilnius |
| SmartLynx Airlines | Riga, Tallinn |
| South Airlines | Odessa |
| Taban Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini |
| Tatarstan Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Ufa |
| Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium | Brussels [begins 15 May] |
| Thomas Cook Airlines Scandinavia | Billund, Helsinki-Vantaa, Oslo, Stavanger, Trondheim |
| Transaero Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Sheremetyevo [3] |
| Transavia.com | Amsterdam |
| Travel Service Airlines | Prague |
| Tulpar Air | Kazan |
| Ukraine International Airlines | Kiev |
| UTair Aviation | Rostov, Surgut |
| VIM Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Wind Rose Aviation | Kiev |
| XL Airways France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| XL Airways Germany | Cologne/Bonn, Dresden, Stuttgart |
| Yamal Airlines | Moscow-Domodedovo |
| Year | Domestic | Change | International | Change | Total | Change |
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| 1998 | 35,208 | 238,470 | 273,678 | |||
| 1999 | 57,955 | 64.6% | 453,864 | 90.3% | 511,819 | 87% |
| 2000 | 67,508 | 16.5% | 624,181 | 37.5% | 691,689 | 35.1% |
| 2001 | 48,121 | 28.7% | 884,428 | 41.7% | 932,549 | 34.8% |
| 2002 | 45,457 | 5.5% | 1,045,252 | 12.1% | 1,090,709 | 16.9% |
| 2003 | 41,583 | 8.5% | 1,144,766 | 9.5% | 1,186,349 | 8.8% |
| 2004 | 47,575 | 14.4% | 1,271,552 | 11.1% | 1,319,127 | 11.2% |
| 2005 | 49,705 | 4.5% | 1,496,175 | 17.7% | 1,546,925 | 17.3% |
| 2006 | 54,243 | 9.1% | 1,468,415 | 1.8% | 1,522,658 | 1.6% |
| 2007 | 79,058 | 45.7% | 1,399,035 | 4.7% | 1,478,093 | 2.9% |
| 2008 | 119,459 | 51.1% | 1,313,244 | 6.1% | 1,432,703 | 3.1% |
| 2009 | 155,734 | 30.4% | 1,050,801 | 20% | 1,206,535 | 15.8% |
| 2010 | 154,974 | 0.5% | 1,043,982 | 0.6% | 1,198,956 | 0.6% |
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