Bulgaria's Sofia Airport Passenger Traffic To Rise to 3.1 Mln in '08, Up 19% Y/Y in Jan-Sept

The number of passengers on scheduled international flights handled by the Sofia airport increased by 24% to 2.492 million in 2007, according to the Bulgarian Airlines Association.

Twenty percent of the passengers in the nine months through September flied on low-cost air carriers, the airport said in a statement on its website.

The Sofia airport handled 13,734 tonnes of cargo in the nine months through September, 5.1% more than a year earlier.

The number of aircraft movements rose 14.3% year-on-year to 36,908 through September.