Sofia International Airport Cancels Flights

Thick fog has settled over Sofia canceling flights of the local international airport. Photo by BGNES

Sofia International Airport has announced it had canceled several departing and arriving flights, scheduled for Thursday.
Five flights, departing from Sofia International Airport at 7:10 am for Munich were canceled.
Two flights that were expected to arrive from Bucharest to Sofia at 10:05 am were also canceled.
Four other arriving flights of the carrier Regasus, scheduled to land at the Sofia International Airport from Istanbul at 7:20, were delayed. The situation is the same for two Bulgaria Air flights arriving to Sofia from the Black Sea cities of Burgas and Varna at 8:20 am and for a flight of Olympic Air, that was scheduled to arrive from Athens at 9 am.
According to the airport’s website, flights to Frankfurt and Prague were also canceled.
Problems with the flights started several days ago, initially because of the bad weather in Western Europe, and since yesterday – because of the thick fog in So