DOMESTIC SKIES: Bulgaria

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG from its OAG Analyser network analysis tool.

SCHEDULED DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES IN BULGARIA (non-stop departures)

Year

Departures

% Change

Available Seats

% Change

1982

22,063

47.3 %

1,068,195

23.2 %

1983

23,216

5.2 %

1,191,891

11.6 %

1984

24,927

7.4 %

1,336,349

12.1 %

1985

24,313

(-2.5) %

1,275,967

(-4.5) %

1986

18,643

(-23.3) %

966,518

(-24.3) %

1987

20,412

9.5 %

1,297,002

34.2 %

1988

23,572

15.5 %

1,236,794

(-4.6) %

1989

19,818

(-15.9) %

1,023,567

(-17.2) %

1990

23,295

17.5 %

1,185,492

15.8 %

1991

5,828

(-75.0) %

245,456

(-79.3) %

1992

5,813

(-0.3) %

232,520

(-5.3) %

1993

4,845

(-16.7) %

195,375

(-16.0) %

1994

3,361

(-30.6) %

134,440

(-31.2) %

1995

3,199

(-4.8) %

127,960

(-4.8) %

1996

3,619

13.1 %

144,760

13.1 %

1997

3,778

4.4 %

144,608

(-0.1) %

1998

3,716

(-1.6) %

141,530

(-2.1) %

1999

4,325

16.4 %

160,732

13.6 %

2000

4,887

13.0 %

165,296

2.8 %

2001

3,284

(-32.8) %

123,818

(-25.1) %

2002

1,869

(-43.1) %

57,237

(-53.8) %

2003

1,093

(-41.5) %

27,366

(-52.2) %

2004

932

(-14.7) %

63,572

132.3 %

2005

924

(-0.9) %

84,340

32.7 %

2006

1,683

82.1 %

111,732

32.5 %

2007

2,942

74.8 %

173,576

55.4 %

2008

3,445

17.1 %

303,584

74.9 %

2009

2,967

(-13.9) %

347,536

14.5 %

2010

2,806

(-5.4) %

337,773

(-2.8) %

2011

3,537

26.1 %

396,969

17.5 %

2012

3,206

(-9.4) %

362,990

(-8.6) %

Richard Maslen

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