Burgas Airport

Burgas (Bourgas) International Airport (IATA: BOJ, ICAO: LBBG), (Bulgarian: Летище Бургас, Letishte Burgas) is the airport of Burgas (Bourgas), Bulgaria. In 2011, it handled 2,253,320 passangers, a 19.0% increase compared to the 1,872,618 handled in 2010, which was itself an 11.2% increase compared to 2009. On June 27, 1927 the French company CIDNA (now part of Air France), chose the area of Burgas Airport to build a radio station and signed a contract with the Bulgarian government for its use. The contract expressly stated that the staff of Bourgas Airport would be Bulgarian. On June 29, 1947, Balkan Bulgarian Airlines began domestic flights between Burgas, Plovdiv and Sofia, using Junkers Ju 52/3m aircraft. In the 1950s and 1960s the...