Ryanair (FR, Dublin International) has announced it will open a base at Burgas Airport in southeastern Bulgaria in early 2018. The Irish carrier said it would deploy a single B737-800 to the base, its second in Bulgaria after Sofia, from the end of March 2018.
Once there, the aircraft will be used to operate flights to ten destinations in six countries including Bratislava (2x week), Düsseldorf Weeze (2x weekly), Frankfurt Hahn (2x weekly), Kraków John Paul II International (2x weekly), Memmingen (2x weekly), Milan Bergamo (2x weekly), Riga (2x weekly), Rzeszow Jasionka (1x weekly), Tel Aviv Ben Gurion (2x weekly), and Warsaw Modlin (2x weekly).
Other than Burgas and Sofia, Ryanair's Bulgarian operations also extend to Plovdiv and Varna.
