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November

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July

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Flight from London Luton Airport to Sofia

FAQs - booking Bulgaria flights

  • Are direct flights available to Bulgaria?

    Direct flights are available from the UK to various parts of Bulgaria. You can fly direct from London Stansted to Sofia in around 3h when you travel with Ryanair. You can also fly direct from London Luton to Varna and to Bourgas in just over 3h. Direct flights from Luton to Varna are usually with Wizz Air, while Ryanair operates flights between Luton and Bourgas. You can also fly direct from Birmingham Airport (BHX) to Sofia with Ryanair.

  • Can I find cheap flights to Bulgaria from Northern Ireland?

    If you’re based in Northern Ireland and want to travel to Bulgaria, you can fly to Sofia from Belfast City Airport (BFS) with just one stop along the way. This stopover will usually be at a connecting London airport, such as London Luton or London Stansted. Flights to Bulgaria from Belfast are usually provided by budget airlines, such as Wizz Air, easyJet, and Ryanair.

  • Do I need a visa to travel to Bulgaria?

    UK passengers can visit Bulgaria without a visa for stays of up to 90 days. You will need to have a valid UK passport, however. You may also be asked to show proof of your onward or return travel when you arrive in Bulgaria or to prove that you have enough money to exit the country.

  • Can I hire a car when I land at Sofia Airport?

    Sofia Airport has a wide range of international car hire agencies, including Avis, Europcar, and Hertz, available at the terminals. You will find the car hire desks at SOF located inside the Arrivals Halls at terminals 1 and 2.

  • Is public transport available at Bulgarian airports?

    Passengers arriving at Sofia Airport will find great public transport links available to the city centre. For instance, you can take the Line 1 Subway from the airport to the city centre in around 35min. Tickets for the subway generally costs less than €1 (£1). If you arrive at Varna Airport (VAR), you can also take a bus from the terminals and reach the city in around 15min. Bus tickets in Bulgaria are also extremely affordable and this route costs less than €1 (£1) per ticket.

  • Are there any airports in Bulgaria that offer on-site accommodation?

    When you book cheap flights to Bulgaria that land at Sofia Airport, you can enjoy a peaceful night’s rest at one of the airport’s nearby hotels. Passengers arriving at SOF can stay at hotels like the ibis Sofia Airport Hotel or the Best Western Premier Sofia Airport Hotel, which are both located around a 5-minute taxi ride from the terminals.

  • I plan to ski in Bulgaria. Where is the best place to fly to?

    Bulgaria has some great regions for skiing, particularly around Sofia. This means that it is a good idea to fly straight to Sofia if you plan to hit the slopes. Landing at Sofia Airport will put you around a 2h drive from winter sports facilities, like the Sankiyski Ski Snowboard Hire & School in Bansko and the Method Snow School.

  • I am based in Scotland. Which airports can I fly to Bulgaria from?

    Passengers based in Scotland can find direct cheap flights to Sofia Airport (SOF) with Ryanair. These flights depart from Edinburgh Turnhouse Airport (EDI). You can also fly from Glasgow Airport (GLA) with Ryanair or take an easyJet flight from Aberdeen Airport (ABZ) with one stop on route.

  • Can I stay overnight at London airports before my flight to Bulgaria?

    If you’re booked on an early morning flight, you might want to stay overnight near the terminals. Passengers flying out of London Gatwick can check in at the South Terminal’s YotelAir cabins, which are located inside the terminal and are just a few minutes walk from Departures. Alternatively, if you’re flying from LTN, you can stay at the ibis London Luton Airport, which is just a 5-minute walk from the terminals.

  • Which airport is closest to the Tsarevets Fortress?

    The historical Tsarevets Fortress is located around a 3 hours' drive from Varna Airport (VAR). Although it may be slightly cheaper to fly from the UK to Sofia, direct flights to VAR are available from London Luton Airport (LTN) with Wizz Air.

  • How long is the flight to Bulgaria?

    An average direct flight from the United Kingdom to Bulgaria takes 10h 14m, covering a distance of 1446 miles. The most popular route is London - Sofia with an average flight time of 3h 05m.

  • What is the cheapest flight to Bulgaria?

    The cheapest ticket to Bulgaria from the United Kingdom found in the last 72 hours was £17 one-way, and £26 round-trip. The most popular route is London Heathrow to Sofia and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 72 hours was £79.

  • Which airlines fly to Bulgaria?

    Ryanair, Wizz Air & easyJet fly the most frequently from the United Kingdom to Bulgaria.

  • What are the most popular destinations in Bulgaria?

    The next most popular destinations are Varna (15%) and Burgas (3%).Searches for flights to Plovdiv (0.5%) are also popular.

  • How does KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a given destination and date is likely to change within 7 days, so travellers know whether to wait or book now.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to Bulgaria

  • Looking for cheap airfare to Bulgaria? 25% of our users found tickets to Bulgaria for the following prices or less: Cheap flights to Bulgaria from London Heathrow £92 one-way - £144 round-trip, from Birmingham £52 one-way - £170 round-trip, from London Gatwick £47 one-way - £218 round-trip
  • Book at least 1 week before departure in order to get a below-average price for flights to Bulgaria.
  • High season is considered to be July and August. The cheapest month to fly from the United Kingdom is November.
  • Enter your preferred departure airport and travel dates into the search form above to unlock the latest Bulgaria flight deals.
  • If you plan to fly from London to Bulgaria, you will have a choice between London Luton (LTN), London Gatwick (LGW), and London Stansted (STN). All three of these airports are located around a 1h journey from the city centre. Gatwick is located just south of the city and is ideal for people in this vicinity. Luton and Stansted, meanwhile, are located just to the north of London.
  • Sofia Airport (SOF) is a hub for Ryanair and Wizz Air, meaning that these airlines offer frequent cheap flights to Bulgaria from UK airports. Varna Airport (VAR) is also a hub for Wizz Air, making this a great alternative airport if you don’t want to fly to Sofia.
  • Want to lower your carbon footprint when you travel? Flights from London Gatwick to Sofia with EasyJet can reduce your CO2 emissions by around 48% without increasing your journey time.
  • Passengers flying out of London Gatwick (LGW) can relax in the My Lounge boarding area inside Gatwick’s South Terminal. Entry to the lounge costs around £32 per person. You can also access lounges at London Luton (LTN) and London Stansted Airport (STN) for around the same price.
  • If you want to visit multiple cities during your Bulgaria trip, it is a good idea to fly to Sofia and then travel on elsewhere from there. Sofia Airport (SOF) offers affordable direct flights to other Bulgarian cities, like Varna, and is also well connected by road to cities like Plovdiv and Bourgas.
  • Visitors who want to explore Rila National Park can fly to Sofia Airport or to Plovdiv Airport (PDV). Both airports are located around a 2 to 3-hour drive from the National Park, although you may find that flights to Sofia are generally cheaper.
  • Planning a summer holiday in Bulgaria? Flying to coastal cities, like Varna and Bourgas, will give you great access to beautiful tourist beaches and nearby water parks.
  • If you want to fly to Bulgaria from northern England, you can fly from Manchester Airport (MAN) or from Newcastle Airport (NCL). Manchester offers flights to Sofia with easyJet, while Newcastle offers Lufthansa flights with one layover in Frankfurt.
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Top 5 airlines flying to Bulgaria

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from the United Kingdom to Bulgaria? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to KAYAK reviews.
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LufthansaOverall score based on 29329 reviews
80boarding
77comfort
76entertainment
80overall
84crew
75food
Airline reviews

Flight was canceled at 11th hour and rescheduled to different airline . Still waiting for a refund on baggage opted with Lufthansa.

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Flight was canceled at 11th hour and rescheduled to different airline . Still waiting for a refund on baggage opted with Lufthansa.

Boarding process was late Could do a pre-announcement of flight status.

The delayed flight from Montreal was horrible, I know it was air Canada operated that flight but no gate open to be able to sit ,for 4 hours to wait after 2 flights and long hours. I will never flight with 2 layover and especially trough Montreal. Airport in Munich was the only civilized. Check in in Heraklion was also very slow and disappointed.

First, when we arrived at the Jacksonville airport they told us our flight was canceled and that we need to pay over $500 more per person to put us on the other flight!!!! Scammers

Pros: "The boarding was a pleasant experience and we got to check in our hand luggage."
Cons: "The vegetarian food options were a little strange."
Cons: "Lufthansa in Frankfurt is a nightmare. Gates are very far apart and Lufthansa scheduled layovers are very short. We were running close to 2 km from one end of the airport to other with little kids barely making our flights. Boarding was on tarmac even for 747, once in rain once in 40C degrees."
Pros: "Friendly staff. Free drink and snack. Comfy seats and very easy boarding process"
Pros: "Crew"
Cons: "Problems when boarding. Some real upset customers at Valencia Airport who had too much baggage. Another proposal: Provide Fanta :-)"
Cons: "I could not purchase transport for an extra bag on the website. I did purchase it at Larnaca Airport. There, I checked in, dropped off the bag, had to go to another counter to pay (long delay in them being able to generate a receipt). Then I had to run the receipt back to the ticket counter."
Pros: "excellent crew, well manner, well dresses smart feel... they seem to know my needs before I did .. loved it"
Cons: "wider wash rooms onboard .. wider seats .. wider seat bealts also plane from FRA - BOM could use service maintinace ... it seemed like an older aircraft"
Cons: "The seat was broken, it did not recline so it was super uncomfortable. The crew was not very friendly, the boarding was late"
Pros: "The crew on the plane handled the difficulties of a passenger well."
Cons: "The repeated delays and mix up with seats which then led to an irate passenger who made ALL of us miserable. She was moved next to my daughters and took her anger out on them by yelling and demanding things most of the flight."
Pros: "Speech from the pilot. Only person to explain the situation during the 4hour delay"
Cons: "Everything. Poor customer service. Atrocious service. Would not recommend"
Pros: "Amazing crew. Friendly. Extra leg room for free. Nice company in plane"
Cons: "2 people were kicked off the plane because they were drunk and called the flight attendant FAT BOY. not only once ! i can still see the flight attendant quite distressed. It’s absolutely horrible to see these things happening more and more often. The police have arrested them and thank god we weren"
Cons: "If you EasyJet ever lands or boards on time I want to know about it. #LateJet"
Cons: "The boarding process really lets Easyjey down. It’s never clear where to queue or where to stand and so many passengers get angry about it. It becomes such a stressful thing. It’s literally the reason I chose not to fly with EasyJet where possible. Shame because everything else is good."
Cons: "They charge you for a carry on and Budapest AirPort everything is very complicate so you can not pay for the suitcase when you check in you have to go to other office and then come back were you started. At the plane they don’t give you nothing no water, nothing. They are no kind."
Cons: "I didn’t like sitting at the gate for a long time without being told what the delay was all about. Also, the announcements were very hard to hear because they weren’t loud enough. That’s something that should not happen because people rely on the information you provide."
Pros: "I absolutely loved it. The staff was very kind, the plane was comfy and we saw a lot of things. Wonderful."
Cons: "Flight left late. Hand luggage bag had to be checked in. I had to go straight to work after I Ianded so didn’t appreciate the extra 20 minutes wait at the luggage carousel. I was told the overhead lockers were full, which they weren’t."

Very very very…… uncomfortable seats /does nor reclain/ and so little space /this was 5:30 hours flight- and quite expensive no longer low cost airline/ 5:30 hours flight and no water or snacks was offered anly very expensive sales.

Cons: "Gate announcement was only a few minutes before cut off!!"
Pros: "We had an eventless and safe flight and it was not too cold on the plane."
Cons: "There was no paper towel in the toilet, the water for the tee was not warm enough to have tee. We have been told to have 10-20 min delay we arrived much later. And the intonation of the speaking stewardess was so annoying that you could not listen to it :( These are minor things but can change the customer experience."
Pros: "Extra legroom seats are a godsend (but that's applicable to any airline, not just Wizzair, although they do seem to have a few more of these than other airlines - low cost or not). Also, despite a 35 min. initial delay, we eventually landed only 15 min. later than the scheduled time."
Cons: "The boarding process at Gatwick was disastrous. There were only 2 agents, none of which spoke proper English. Also, one of them was busy checking each individual carry-on bag with unnecessary extra scrutiny, only to provide customers to the second agent, which was taking the payments for extra bags."
Cons: "The seats are cramped and you have to pay for snacks and water"
Cons: "Wiz air seems to trick you constantly to get more money out if things they hide from you.. online check-in required.. letting you in work a trolley and then charge you at the gate.. pee service overall.. beware!!"
Pros: "Flight left on time and arrived 15 mins ahead of schedule, staff was polite"
Pros: "The flight was on time, even though it left with almost 30 mins' delay (despite the fact that boarding was complete with a few minutes before the schedule take off time)."
Cons: "Seat comfort - the seats are tied with Ryanair for worst comfort (rigid and very cramped). Worst of all, though, as with Ryanair - seat allocation. Please, stop this "even though you're travelling together, you may be seated separately unless you pay to choose your seats" nonsense. It's ridiculous!"
Cons: "Not accusing the customer of not having a priority booking when they do, not having an hour long wait, and not accusing the customer of having a bag too big when it wasn’t."
Pros: "Courteous crew, polite and knowledge. Just wish they wouldn't talk so fast over the tannoy! :-)"
Cons: "To find a way to enforce people to only put their baggage in the compartments above their own seats. If i choose a front-row seat, I find that other passengers have filled the compartment despite sitting nowhere near the front. Given that you pay the most money for front-row/extra leg room seats..."
Pros: "Ryanair are thieves and they denied to board me because they said they do not accept my residence card (with which I travelled to Schengen countries before with other airlines) and their website do not mention that I cannot travel with this kind of residence card."
Cons: "If they conform European laws and treat their own employees better and stop making their own rules by distancing themselves from other airlines."
Pros: "We got there eventually"
Cons: "No updates on why we were late. Then checked us in after the time of them posted delay just to make I stand 20 minutes outside in cold enough temperatures that you can see your breath. Why bring us outside? Ryanair is horrible"
Cons: "Checking opened 20 minutes late and lengthy queues through security meantwe had no time to grab food/shopping as we had to rush to gate as no notifications that our flight was actually delayed by an hour. Everyone was herded onto buses to wait there for some reason rather than at gate"
Cons: "We are a family with a three year old and have been separated by the allocation system."
Pros: "Speedy check in at chaotic Crete airport Paying extra for priority boarding and taking carry on bags inside the cabin was worth it"
Cons: "Pay 68 euros for 5 kg excess luggage"
Pros: "Nothing"
Cons: "Once we finally got through the archaic baggage drop and security lines, we found ourselves in the tiniest terminal with essentially standing room only. Flight was then delayed by 1 hour. Once Boarding was announced we waited in line for about 30 minutes before they started letting people through only to wait another 30 minutes in a hot corridor (major fire hazard) awaiting a bus to drive us about 100 feet to our plane. It really was a circus, there were about 10 buses that kept circling around the tarmac in front of us, stopping in front of our boarding line, doors open, then inexplicably the bus would take off without anyone on board. We finally boarded a bus and were driven right in front of our plane, yet for unknown reasons we were kept on the bus in about 85 degree weather with no AC or ventilation for 20 minutes!!! There were people boarding the plane as we waited in the hotbox and there was no obvious reason as to why they wouldn't open the doors. People began slowly panicking, one woman was hyperventilating because it was so hot and the air was suffocating. Suddenly doors opened and we boarded plane with no explanation. To make matters worse the AC did not appear to be working on the flight, it was quite warm and humid on the already uncomfortable Ryanair flight with non-reclining seats or free water. NEVER AGAIN!"
Pros: "Crew was nice"
Cons: "Boarding delayed 30 minutes without a heads up. Crew allowed kid to run the aisles and listen to loud show without headphones. Had to walk to a different terminal to pick up our bags."
Pros: "Tickets were Cheap."
Cons: "The flight attendants weren’t friendly and had a bad attitude. They were not helpful at all."
Pros: "Straight forward flight"
Cons: "Having to pay for my family to sit together, this could have been offered with the automatic seating allocation, there were lots of 4 seats together . It seems that you are intentionally separated so that you pay to change."
Pros: "Your personal in plain is young, nice and I like them becouse they are smailing all time."
Cons: "You can give to pasenger one drink (coffee) like preasen!?"

The flight was delayed 5 hours and I'm and invalid,I wan a refund for this

The cabin crew on that flight were super fantastic and super helpful. They were so polite and considerate that i felt i travelled with a 5star airline.

Delayed delayed delayed - always with Wizzair. Staff were friendly and well mannered but clearly the company is unorganized and the aircrafts are outdated.

It's a budget airline. Great for short flight. Smooth landing.

4 hr delay and only told less than 2hrs before. Only given water and nuts on the flight as complimentary service. Left to wait in rain before boarding.

To be honest I did not like anything. Communication to why my flight was cancelled mid air 2 and half hours into my flight. Customer service desk were not helpful with providing information or a solution on what can be done.

I have been treated unacceptably by WizzAir aircraft crew in a previous flight, they threatened me and abused me, and I received an OFFICIAL written apology, but only two (2) months later. This flight had no such unacceptable behaviour, but it's not nice to be left waiting in the walkway (from gate to aircraft) for a long time, just so that the 'boarding' appears to be early, even if actual departure is not.

What I liked new airplane Sitting was extremely uncomfortable! Crew not smiley at all Always chewing gum

The flight was cancelled just 4 hours before the take off...

No food on board. Not comfortable. Had to move seats was delayed more than 3 hours.

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