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Delays at Sofia Airport due to weather

Tue, Dec 22 2009 09:37 CET 2396 Views 2 Comments
Delays at Sofia Airport due to weather

 
Photo: Красимир Юскеселиев

Flights at Sofia Airport are operating with an average of 40 minute delay on December 22 2009, Dnevnik daily reported.
 
The delay affected both departing and incoming flights.

The most severely affected case was a flight bound from Sofia to London which departed with a seven hour delay.
 
Sofia Airport authorities have said in their defence that all delays, without exception, were to be attributed only to complications pertaining to weather conditions affecting other airports, and that everything at the Sofia airport was under control.
 
On December 21 2009, there were a number of flights which were severely delayed and had not managed to take off (bound for Sofia) but local airport authorities still had them labeled as 'delayed'.
 
A flight from Bucharest landed in Sofia on the morning of December 22 with a four hour delay, whereas flights from Frankfurt and Warsaw were coming in two hours late. Amsterdam, Prague, Dusseldorf, London and other flights also arrived with significant delays. Outgoing flights to Barcelona and Berlin apparently were also postponed with up to two hours because of complications in Spain and Germany, respectively.

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Anonymous aleksandra Tue, Dec 22 2009 15:56 CET

I would like to thank you,because I was wondering what is the situation at sofia airport...and trere is no information anywhere!!!
SHAME ON YOU 'LETISHTE SOFIA',the web page of our airport should be updated,just like the web pages of aall the EUROPEAN AIRPORTS!!!

Anonymous Ivo Tue, Dec 22 2009 11:30 CET

Thank you very much and congrat's to the writer of the article. This is very important info that I couldn't find anywhere alse. It's a big shame that there is no any info about the flights even on the official Sofia - airport web page. Thank's once again:)


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