List of defunct airlines of Bulgaria
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This is a list of defunct airlines of Bulgaria.[1][2]
| Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations |
Ceased operations |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Ban | BAN | AIR BAN | 1994 | 1997 | |||
| Air Ban | LZP | TUS AIR | 1999 | 2009 | Operated Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin, MBB Bo 105[3] | ||
| Air Bright | ,_Luxembourg_PP1370449736.jpg) | REM | 2006 | 2015 | Renamed Rose Air | ||
| Air Kona | KON | 1993 | 1994 | Operated Tupolev Tu-154[4] | |||
| Air Mark Cargo | 2002 | 2006 | Operated Antonov An-12[5] | ||||
| Air Max | RMX | AEROMAX | 1996 | 2007 | Operated Antonov An-26, Let L-410 Turbolet[6] | ||
| Air Nove | CR | NHA | AIR NOVE | 1998 | 2001 | Operated Antonov An-26 | |
| Air Scorpio | SCU | SCORPIO UNIVERSE | 1996 | ? | Operated Antonov An-12, Antonov An-24, Antonov An-26, Antonov An-74, Let L-410 Turbolet, Tupolev Tu-154[7] | ||
| Air Sofia |  | CT | SFB | AIR SOFIA | 1992 | 2007 | Relocated to Serbia as United International Airlines. |
| Air Syder Bulgarian Airways | B5 | SDR | 1993 | 1995 | Operated Ilyushin Il-76 | ||
| Air Varna | BAV | 1993 | 1994 | ||||
| Air VIA | .jpg) | VL | VIM | CRYSTAL | 1991 | 2016 | |
| Air Zory |  | MZA | 1993 | 1998 | |||
| Balkan Bulgarian Airlines |  | LZ | LAZ | BALKAN | 1968 | 2002 | Went bankrupt Operations merged into Balkan Air Tour |
| Balkan Air Tour |  | FB | LZB | 2002 | 2003 | Operated Boeing 737-300, Tupolev Tu-154. Renamed Bulgaria Air | |
| Balkanian Airways | 2012 | ? | Operated Boeing 737-300 | ||||
| Bexx Air | 2004 | 2004 | Rebranded Imagine Air[8] | ||||
| Bright Aviation Services |  | BRW | BRIGHT SERVICES | 2001 | 2007 | Operated Antonov An-12, Antonov An-26, BAe 146 | |
| Bright Flight | BFG | 2014 | 2019 | Operated ATR 42, BAe 146[9] | |||
| Bulair | .jpg) | DB | 1968 | 1972 | Charter subsidiary of TABSO and later Balkan Bulgarian Airlines | ||
| Bulgarian Air Charter | .jpg) | 1T | BUC | BULGURIAN CHARTER | 2000 | 2021 | Renamed European Air Charter[10] |
| Bulgarian Eagle | .jpg) | BEG | BULGARIAN EAGLE | 2017 | 2019 | Subsidiary of Germania | |
| Bulgarian Flying Cargo | .jpg) | FN | BFB | 1993 | 2001 | Previously Bulgarian Flying Company Operated Antonov An-12[11] | |
| Bunavad | 1927 | 1930 | |||||
| BVS Bulgarske Vazdusne Sobstenie | 1947 | 1949 | Renamed TABSO. Operated Junkers Ju 52, Lisunov Li-2[12] | ||||
| Dandy Airlines | ZD | DDD | FLYING DANDY | 2002 | 2004 | ||
| East-West European | EWE | 1991 | 1996 | ||||
| Global Air | GLB GLJ GLS | 1992 | 1995 | ||||
| Hemus Air |  | DU | HMS | HEMUS AIR | 1987 | 2010 | Merged operations into Bulgaria Air |
| Inter Trans Air |  | ITT | INTER TRANSAIR | 1996 | 2002 | ||
| Jes Air |  | JX | JES | JES AIR | 1992 | 1993 | |
| Lucky Air | DN | BLF | 1990 | 2000 | |||
| Mithras Air |  | 2007 | 2008 | Operated Antonov An-12 | |||
| Phoenix Air Cargo | PXB | PHOENIX BULGARIA | 1993 | 1994 | Operated Antonov An-12 | ||
| Rila Airlines |  | RAB | RILA | 1999 | 2003 | Operated Antonov An-12 | |
| Rose Air | REM | 2015 | 2019 | Cargo carrier
Previously Air Bright[13] | |||
| Scorpion Air |  | SPN | AIR SKORPIO | 1990 | 2007 | ||
| Sigi Air Cargo | .jpg) | BG | BGR | 1990 | 1992 | Operated Antonov An-12, Antonov An-22 | |
| TABSO |  | 1949 | 1968 | Previously B.V.S.
Renamed Balkan Bulgarian Airlines | |||
| Tayaran Jet | .jpg) | E8 | TJB | ALADIN | 2018 | 2021 | |
| Vega Airlines |  | VEA | VEGA AIRLINES | 1998 | 2008 | Renamed Cargoair | |
| VIA Airways |  | 2017 | 2019 | Successor of Air VIA[14] | |||
| Viaggio Air | VM | VOA | VIAGGIO | 2003 | 2007 | Bought by and later merged into Hemus Air | |
| Vivant Air | VVI | 2002 | 2006 | ||||
| Wizz Air Bulgaria | ,_Netherlands_PP1145865207.jpg) | 8Z | WVL | WIZZAIR BULGARIA | 2005 | 2011 | Operations merged into Wizz Air Hungary |
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