BH Air - Balkan Holidays Air (8H, Sofia) will partner Skygreece Airlines (Athens) in launching transatlantic flights from Sofia to New York JFK and Chicago O'Hare beginning in May this year. Sofia Airport CEO Hristo Shterionov told the Sofia News Agency that the flights will operate 4x weekly.
The carrier applied to the US Department of Transportation for a Foreign Carriers Permit in February last year.
BH Air will shortly add a first B767-300(ER), LZ-AWB (msn 27909), to its widebody fleet which so far, has consisted of one A330-200.
