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Bulgaria Air
IATA Code
ICAO Code
IATA Prefix
Callsign
FB
LZB
623
 Flying Bulgaria

Bulgaria Air Airbus A320-214

Bulgaria Air
Boulevard Bruksel 1
Sofia Airport
1540 Sofia
BULGARIA

Tel.: +359 2 402 0306
Fax: +359 2 937 3254
SITA:
Email: office@air.bg
Website: www.air.bg

Type: Scheduled, international, regional, domestic, pax
Owner: Hemus Air (99.99%); Bulgarian govt (0.01%)
Base: Sofia (SOF)
Hubs: Bourgas (BOJ), Varna (VAR)
Ops started: December 2002
Alliances: Aeroflot, Austrian, CSA Czech, LOT, Malev, Brussels Airlines
Bulgaria Air operates this equipment: Executives:
  • 1 x Airbus A319-111
  • 2 x Airbus A319-112
  • 3 x Airbus A320-214
  • 2 x ATR 42-300
  • 1 x Avro RJ70
  • 4 x BAe146-200
  • 4 x BAe146-300
  • 2 x Boeing 737-300
CEO: Dimitar Pavlov
Director Commercial: Grisha Jenkov

Bulgaria Air is the flag carrier airline of Bulgaria, based in Sofia. The company is owned by Himimport Inc. The airline was established in 2002 as a successor to the insolvent Balkan Bulgarian Airlines. By order of the Minister of Transportation and Communications it was declared the flag carrier in November 2002, starting operations on 4 December 2002. Bulgaria Air was privatized in 2006. Hemus Air reportedly paid €6.6m and promised to invest a further €86m over the next five years. Since then all flights of Hemus Air and its subsidiary Viaggio Air are under the Bulgaria Air IATA code FB.

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