{"id":8556,"date":"2017-10-16T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=8556"},"modified":"2017-10-17T21:36:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T18:36:51","slug":"sofia-airport-2017-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/sofia-airport-2017-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia Airport (extract from \u201cSofia: Tourism and Air Transport 2017\u201d Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Bulgaria was the country with the second biggest increase in airport passengers (15.2%), after Iceland (29.9%).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8557 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aircraft-movements.jpg\" alt=\"Aircraft-Movements-Sofia-Airport\" width=\"353\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aircraft-movements.jpg 629w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aircraft-movements-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aircraft-movements-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aircraft-movements-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aircraft-movements-50x28.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Aircraft-movements-133x75.jpg 133w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The total number of passengers at Sofia Airport increased by 21.8% in 2016, compared to 2015, from 4 088 943 to 4 980 387 annually.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The rapid expansion of low-cost carriers was the major factor behind the double-digit increase in number of foreign tourists in Sofia and the city becoming more and more popular destination for city breaks. According to the Bulgarian Ministry of Finance, more than 56% of the foreigners that visited Bulgaria in 2016 arrived with a low-cost flight.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8559 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airport.jpg\" alt=\"Top-Destinations-In-Number-of-Passengers\" width=\"514\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airport.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airport-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airport-768x333.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airport-600x260.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airport-260x113.jpg 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airport-50x22.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Airport-150x65.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Sofia_Tourism-and-AirTransport_Report_September2017_ENG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">To the full PDF report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>More detailed data on the passengers and flights at Sofia Airport is available in the full version of the \u201cSofia: Tourism and Air Transport 2017\u201d report, published on the website of Sofia Investment Agency in the Market Data and Analyses section.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, Bulgaria was the country with the second biggest increase in airport passengers (15.2%), after Iceland (29.9%). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}