{"id":15368,"date":"2019-01-07T08:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T06:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=15368"},"modified":"2019-01-07T08:42:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T06:42:36","slug":"sofia-airport-ranks-63rd-among-150-airports-in-the-eu-by-number-of-passengers-carried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/sofia-airport-ranks-63rd-among-150-airports-in-the-eu-by-number-of-passengers-carried\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia Airport Ranks 63rd among 150 Airports in the EU by Number of Passengers Carried"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"In the last month of the past year, Eurostat published<\/span> airport traffic statistics covering nearly 150 airports in the EU<\/span><\/a> based on annual data for 2017. Sofia Airport ranked 63<\/span>rd<\/span> in terms of passengers carried and Bulgaria is among the first five countries by growth of passengers carried.<\/span><\/p>\n

In <\/span>2017, a total of 6.5 million passengers passed through Sofia Airport – <\/span>a 30% growth on 2016<\/span>. The highest number of passengers came from the European Union – 5.3 million. Passengers from <\/span>non-EU countries<\/span> totaled 820 000, and Bulgarians were some 270 000.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to data at national level, Bulgaria is among the top five countries with the largest increase in passenger flows. With a total of 11 million passengers travelling through the local airports, Bulgaria recorded an increase of 19% in 2017. Slovenia is holding the number one position in terms of growth of passengers carried with a 20% growth, followed by Luxembourg, Estonia and the Czech Republic.<\/span><\/p>\n

All EU member states registered an increase in terms of passengers carried. <\/span>The <\/span>number of passengers at European airports grew by 7% year-on-year in 2017 to more than 1 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rapid development of Sofia Airport<\/span><\/a> is related both to the considerable expansion of the volume of low-cost carriers and the economic development in Bulgaria in general. For the last three years, a total of 42 new destinations have been introduced at Sofia Airport, including new flights to, among others, Ljubljana, Baku, Nice and Malaga. <\/span>It is expected that a new Beijing-Sofia direct line will be opened by 2020.<\/span> Furthermore, new direct flights are expected to be introduced at the airport in 2019.<\/span> Two of them are offered by <\/span>the <\/span>low-cost carrier RyanAir, which will launch the new Sofia – Kiev and Sofia – Crete lines in April.<\/span><\/p>\n

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