3 Airports in Bulgaria Don't Function over Thick Fog

Society | January 12, 2008, Saturday // 00:00
Bulgaria: 3 Airports in Bulgaria Don't Function over Thick Fog The airports in Bulgaria's coastal city of Varna, in the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa and the second largest city of Plovdiv do not function due to the dense fog and extremely low visibility. Photo by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia Photo Agency)

The airports in Bulgaria's coastal city of Varna, in the town of Gorna Oryahovitsa and the second largest city of Plovdiv do not function due to the dense fog and extremely low visibility.

Planes are landing only at Burgas airport, officials reported.

A total of 35 arriving and departing flights have been cancelled at Sofia airport during the day.

Part of the machines, scheduled to land in Bulgaria's capital, have been redirected to Thessalonike airport. The passengers then will be transported to Sofia by busses.

There are also huge delays in the time of arriving of a flight from Moscow and one to Vienna.

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