"Varna Free University ""Chernorizets Hrabar"" is the first and only university in Bulgaria certified with the signs DS Label, ECTS Label and HR by the European Executive Agency for Education and Culture at the European Commission of the European Union. Varna Free University organizes regular, part-time and distance learning for all the education-and-qualification degrees set in the Law on Higher Education such as ""Bachelor"", ""Master"" and ""Doctor"". It has more than 27,000 alumni. Every year Varna Free University offers new scholarship programs which are open to students with the highest grades but also to the prominent acting and dancing talents"
"Varna Airport Varna Airport (Bulgarian: Летище Варна, ""Letishte Varna"") is the airport of Varna, the historical maritime capital of Bulgaria. Varna Airport is the third largest airport in Bulgaria and an important destination during the summer leisure seasons. The airport is located 10 kilometers from the center of Varna near the town of Aksakovo. The airport serves Varna, Golden Sands and northeastern Bulgaria. Domestic and international flights are available to about 116 destinations in 40 countries by more than 53 Bulgarian and foreign airlines. The busiest season for the airport is from the end of May to the beginning of"
"Karlovy Vary Airport Karlovy Vary Airport () is the airport of Karlovy Vary in western Bohemia. It is located in the village of Olšová Vrata, 6 km southeast of the city centre and is the fourth-busiest airport in the Czech Republic. The airport handled 104,469 passengers in 2013, which was the highest number of all the times. Plans were announced in 2011 to build a new departure hall at the airport, at an estimated expense of 30 million crowns. 99% of passengers using the airport in 2012 were Russian. The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights to and"
"and a tie-up between Hainan and Plovdiv Airport Invest. On 28 March 2018, Bulgarian Government awarded the consortium of HNA Group and Plovdiv Airport Invest a 35-year-long concession on Plovdiv airport in return for investments reaching €79 million, including a new cargo and passenger terminal. On 19 of July the consortium of HNA Group and Plovdiv Airport Invest have declared that it won't sign the concession contract which opens the road for the classified on the second place to take the concession. On the west side of the airport is located 24th Helicopter Air Base of the Bulgarian Air Force,"
"with European firms and attracting foreign investment. The automotive industry has ceased the manufacture of cars, trucks, and buses. Manufacture of forklifts, a speciality in the communist era, also has stopped. In the early 2000s, shipbuilding has prospered at the major Varna and Ruse yards because of foreign ownership (Ruse) and privatization (Varna). Only in recent years electronics and electric equipment production has regained higher levels. The largest centres include Sofia, Plovdiv and the surrounding area, Botevgrad, Stara Zagora, Varna, Pravets and many other cities. Household appliances, computers, CDs, telephones, medical and scientific equipment are being produced. In 2008 the"
"Pardubice Airport Pardubice Airport () is a military airport permitted to handle international civil air traffic in the city of Pardubice, Czech Republic. It is mainly used for charter flights to Southern Europe during the summer season, to transport Russian tourists into the Czech Republic and for cargo flights. In 1910 Jan Kašpar, an engineer and aviation enthusiast, and his cousin Eugen Čihák, bought a Bleriot XI aeroplane and started with flight experiments on the local military exercise ground in Pardubice. On 16 April 1910 Kašpar flew for the first time and as the first person in Czech lands. In"
"tower and administrative facilities. On 18 December 1982 the first aircraft TU-134 arrived, a charter flight from Amsterdam, the beginning of a new era for Plovdiv Airport. It is followed by the arrival on 3 November 2010 by a Boeing 737-800 arriving from London Stansted Airport, opening a year-round international passenger service to and from Plovdiv Airport. On 25 December 2009 the first service to a scheduled destination, Moscow, started. This was the first scheduled flight since 1981. The airport handled 103,300 passengers in 2015. Although the airport is operated by the state-owned ""Letishte Plovdiv EAD"" and the runway and"
"it handled 15 million passengers, which makes it the one of the busiest airports in Central Europe. In total, the Czech Republic has 46 airports with paved runways, six of which provide international air services in Brno, Karlovy Vary, Mošnov (near Ostrava), Pardubice, Prague and Kunovice (near Uherské Hradiště). Russia, via pipelines through Ukraine and to a lesser extent, Norway, via pipelines through Germany, supply the Czech Republic with liquid and natural gas. The Czech Republic ranks in the top 10 countries worldwide with the fastest average internet speed. By the beginning of 2008, there were over 800 mostly local"
"Voice"" published an article with the heading: ""He has TRACK OF AIRPORT Plovdiv"". In the same article the public was informed of the expansion of charter flights by Balkan Bulgarian Airlines to such destinations as Berlin, Moscow, Prague, and Vienna; the flights were carried out with aircraft types IL-18, TU-104 and TU-114. On 13 September 1965 a new terminal building was opened, and next year an enlarged tarmac was put into use in time for winter season charter traffic. During these first years at the new location on the north-west perimeter of the airport, the airport serves scheduled domestic passenger"
"1994-1998 with one MiG-21bis Sqn. Closed as a military base in 1998 and now used for charter flights and as a Sea Rescue Centre. Runway data: Location: N43 25 25.54 E028 10 52.69, Elev: 660 ft (201 m), Rwy 16/34, Size: 8095 x 197 ft (2467 x 60 m). Balchik Airfield Balchik Airfield is an airfield in Balchik, Bulgaria. It is considered a ""certified airfield"" by the Bulgarian Civil Aviation Administration.<br>The airfield accepted its first international civil flight (a small private jet from Prague airport) on May 3, 2012. Located on the Black Sea coast, north east of Varna. Home"
"Van Air Europe Van Air Europe is a Czech passenger and cargo charter airline headquartered in Brno and based at Brno–Tuřany Airport. The airline was founded in 2004 by its parent company Aeroservis. On 15 July 2006, the airline began operating flights on behalf of Citywing, operating flights out of Blackpool, the Isle of Man, Gloucester, Belfast City, Leeds/Bradford, Newcastle upon Tyne and Jersey, the Jersey service only operating during the summer months. The Leeds service has been discontinued. Until 6 May 2013, it also operated a Shoreham - Paris-Pontoise service on behalf of Brighton City Airways. A new service"
"be increased as an extension to the existing architectural part. The first passenger service on T2 was a domestic flight to Sofia operated by the national carrier Bulgaria Air and first international passengers served were on a Belavia flight from Minsk. T2 was designed by London-based architecture firm Pascall+Watson. The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Varna Airport: Bus line 409 connects the airport with Varna city center and resorts nearby (route: ""Varna Airport – Mall Varna – Varna Bus Station / Grand Mall – City Center – Saints Constantine and Helena - Golden Sands""). Varna Airport"
"just southwest of the airfield over part of Kaluga town. In 2008, news media announced that Volkswagen Rus OOO (the Russian subsidiary of the German automotive industry conglomerate and holding company Volkswagen Group) is ready to invest between 400 and 500 million rubles into the airport. Volkswagen Air Services charter flights to Braunschweig Airport near Wolfsburg, and Ruzyně Airport, Prague, are planned to start in 2015. Kaluga (Grabtsevo) Airport Kaluga (Grabtsevo) Airport () is an international airport, located northeast of Kaluga, Russia. The airport is currently (as of ) 100% owned by the Ministry for Economic Development of Kaluga Oblast."
"Airport in Turkey, Tbilisi Airport and Batumi International Airport in Georgia, Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport and the Enfidha – Hammamet International Airport in Tunisia,the Skopje International Airport and Ohrid ""St. Paul the Apostle"" International Airport in the Republic of Macedonia. TAV engages in other branches of airport operations as well: duty-free sales, food and beverage services, ground handling services, information technologies, security, and operation services. Its airports serve approximately 420K flights and 48 million passengers on average per year. In 2010, 55% of the firm's consolidated revenues were non-aviational. It generated 753 million Euro consolidated revenues. The company shares"
"as of March, 2017. Airports that are operated by TAV group are: Istanbul Atatürk Airport, Ankara Esenboğa International Airport, Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport, Antalya Gazipaşa Airport and Milas–Bodrum Airport in Turkey; Monastir Habib Bourguiba International Airport and Enfidha–Hammamet International Airport in Tunisia, Tbilisi International Airport and Batumi International Airport in the Republic of Georgia; Skopje ""Alexander the Great"" Airport and Ohrid ""St. Paul the Apostle"" Airport in the Republic of Macedonia; Medina Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz Airport in Saudi Arabia Zagreb Airport in Croatia. In 2010, Şener was selected the “Investor Relations CEO of the Year in Turkey” by Thomson"
"(Serbia, seasonal) and Moscow (Russia). Travel times range between 4.5 hours to Berlin and 27 hours to Moscow. Prague's main international railway station is Hlavní nádraží, rail services are also available from other main stations: Masarykovo nádraží, Holešovice and Smíchov, in addition to suburban stations. Commuter rail services operate under the name Esko Praha, which is part of PID (Prague Integrated Transport). Prague is served by Václav Havel Airport Prague, the largest airport in the Czech Republic and one of the largest and busiest airports in central and eastern Europe. The airport is the hub of the flag carrier, Czech"
"Bratislava Airport M. R. Štefánik Airport () , also called – especially in English – Bratislava Airport () or ""Bratislava-Ivanka"", located approximately northeast of Bratislava city center on area of three municipalities (Bratislava-Ružinov, Bratislava-Vrakuňa and Ivanka pri Dunaji) is the main international airport of Slovakia. In 1993 it was named after general Milan Rastislav Štefánik, whose aircraft crashed near Bratislava in 1919. The airport is owned and run by ""Letisko M. R. Štefánika – Airport Bratislava, a.s. (BTS)"". As of September 2014 the company is fully owned by the Slovak Republic via the Ministry of Transport, Construction and Regional Development."
"Václav Havel Airport Prague Václav Havel Airport Prague (), formerly ""Prague Ruzyně International Airport"" (, ), , is the international airport of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The airport was founded in 1937, when it replaced the Kbely Airport (founded in 1918), it was reconstructed and extended in 1956, 1968, 1997 and 2006. It is located in the edge of Prague-Ruzyně area, next to Kněževes village, west of the centre of Prague and southeast of the city Kladno. In 2017 it served over 15 million passengers (expecting 17 million in 2018). It serves as a hub for Czech"
"Voronezh International Airport Voronezh International Airport () (also recorded as Chertovitskoye Airport) is an airport in Russia located 11 km north of Voronezh. Serves the city of Voronezh, Lipetsk, Tambov, Oryol, Belgorod, Kursk regions. July 10, 1933 - open regular air service on the route Moscow - Voronezh - Stalingrad on multi-seat aircraft K-5 in 1971 a new airport terminal was built and delivered. In the 1980s and up to the collapse of the Soviet Union the airport served 1.1 million passengers a year. In 2017, the airport handled 607,000 passengers. In 2008, the reconstruction of the airport was initiated."
"Polotsk, Belarus. Riga International Airport is the busiest airport in the Baltic states with 6.1 million passengers in 2017. It has direct flight to over 80 destinations in 30 countries. The only other airport handling regular commercial flights is Liepāja International Airport. airBaltic is the Latvian flag carrier airline and a low-cost carrier with hubs in all three Baltic States, but main base in Riga, Latvia. Latvian Railway's main network consists of 1,860 km of which 1,826 km is 1,520 mm Russian gauge railway of which 251 km are electrified, making it the longest railway network in the Baltic States."
"city. The total length of the cycling roads is ( are completed and are under construction). The city has a total of 690 bike parkings. The number of registered private automobiles in the city increased from 178,104 in 2005 to 234,298 in 2009. There are around 658 cars per 1,000 inhabitants The Plovdiv International Airport is near the village of Krumovo, southeast of the city. It takes charter flights from Europe and has scheduled services with Ryanair to London and Frankfurt-Hahn and S7 to Moscow. Many small airports are in the city's surroundings, including the Graf Ignatievo Air Base in"
"Banya, Plovdiv Province Banya (Bulgarian: Баня) is a town in Southern Bulgaria. It is in Karlovo Municipality, Plovdiv Province and is close to Karlovo. The health resort village of Banya is in a large park at the foot of the ""Sashtinska Sredna gora"" mountain, near the geographic centre of the country in the Rose Valley, between the Balkan and the Sredna Gora mountains. It is easily reachable by car, train, or bus. The beaches, swimming pools, sport complexes, balneological hotels and rehabilitation establishments in town create wonderful conditions for pleasant summer holidays and tourism. The fans of the Bulgarian wines"
"It attracts more than 600,000 visitors from many countries. The city has had a duty-free zone since 1987. It has a customs terminal handling cargo from trucks and trains. Plovdiv's geographical position makes it an international transport hub. Three of the ten Pan-European corridors run into or near the city: Corridor IV (Dresden–Bucharest–Sofia-Plovdiv- Istanbul), Corridor VIII (Durrës-Sofia-Plovdiv-Varna/Burgas), and Corridor X (Salzburg–Belgrade-Plovdiv-Istanbul). A major tourist centre, Plovdiv lies at the foot of the Rhodope Mountains, and most people wishing to explore the mountains choose it as their trip's starting point. The city is a major road and railway hub in southern"
"with Eurocopter AS 532, Mil Mi-24, Mil Mi-17 and Bell 206 units. Next to the airbase is the only functional aviation museum in Bulgaria. Opened in 1991, the museum has a rich collection of modern, cold war airplanes and such from the Third Bulgarian Kingdom. Due to the low state budget, the collection is preserved mostly by donations. The museum is accessible by car on the way to the airport and is about 100m from Mavrudovo railway station. Working hours for visitors are 9:00–16:00. The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Plovdiv Airport: Plovdiv Airport Plovdiv Airport"
"Děčín, Mělník, Prague, Ústí nad Labem, Moldauhafen in Hamburg (no longer operational, will be handed over to Germany in 2028) In 2006, the Czech Republic had a total 121 airports. 46 of these airports had paved runways while 75 had unpaved runways. The largest and busiest airport in the Czech Republic is Václav Havel Airport Prague, opened in 1937. Other international airports include Brno-Tuřany Airport, Karlovy Vary Airport, Ostrava Leoš Janáček Airport, Pardubice Airport, Kunovice Airport and Public domestic and private international airport is for example Hradec Králové Airport. Total: 46 (2007) Total: 75 (2007) 2 (2006) Transport in the"
"most major Bulgarian and international companies operating in the country, as well as the Bulgarian National Bank and the Bulgarian Stock Exchange. Plovdiv is the second-largest city and has one of the largest economies in Bulgaria. Varna is the third largest city in Bulgaria and the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Situated strategically in the Gulf of Varna, economically, Varna is among the best-performing and fastest-growing Bulgarian cities. The Bulgarian economy has developed significantly in the last 26 years, despite all difficulties after the disband of Comecon in 1991. In the early 1990s, the"
"Balchik Airfield Balchik Airfield is an airfield in Balchik, Bulgaria. It is considered a ""certified airfield"" by the Bulgarian Civil Aviation Administration.<br>The airfield accepted its first international civil flight (a small private jet from Prague airport) on May 3, 2012. Located on the Black Sea coast, north east of Varna. Home to a Krilo from 2 Army Polk in June 1941 and later 5 Bf 109Es of the Galata Fighter Orliak. Home to the 2nd Sqn of the 15th Fighter Air Regiment, 2nd Air Defence Division until 1994. Subsequently, home to 6th Fighter Air Base of the Air Defence Corps"
"Graf Ignatievo Air Base Graf Ignatievo Air Base , is located in the village of Graf Ignatievo, about north of Plovdiv, Bulgaria's second largest city. It is the sole remaining fighter base of that state and houses two squadrons of jet aircraft. Graf Ignatievo is often called ""the German airfield"" by the Bulgarian aviation society, as the airfield was built with the extensive help of engineers from the Third Reich in the 1930s and was intended to house units of the Luftwaffe. In 1940, the airfield, when it became ready was turned over to the Bulgarian His Majesty's Air Troops."
"Airlines, as well as of the low-cost airlines SmartWings and Travel Service operating throughout Europe. Other airports in Prague include the city's original airport in the north-eastern district of Kbely, which is serviced by the Czech Air Force, also internationally. It also houses the Prague Aviation Museum. The nearby Letňany airport is mainly used for private aviation and aeroclub aviation. Another airport in the proximity is Aero Vodochody aircraft factory to the north, used for testing purposes, as well as for aeroclub aviation. There are a few aeroclubs around Prague, such as the Točná airfield. In 2018, 2 % of"
"Port of Varna Port of Varna () (map) is the largest seaport complex in Bulgaria. Located on the Black Sea's west coast on Varna Bay, along Lake Varna and Lake Beloslav, it also comprises the outlying port of Balchik. It has a significant further development potential with of sheltered inland waterfront on the lakes alone, easily accessible by road and railroad and adjacent to Varna International Airport. There are two anchorages at Varna roadstead: summer and winter. If violent northeasterly wind and wave conditions make the anchorages hazardous, a foul weather anchorage is available west of the high Cape Kaliakra"
"stage, which is expanding its capacity for reception and service of most modern passenger and luxury types of aircraft. Voronezh Airport supports intermodal free transportation of passengers for 13 regions of the country. Any passenger is delivered to the airport for free. Voronezh International Airport Voronezh International Airport () (also recorded as Chertovitskoye Airport) is an airport in Russia located 11 km north of Voronezh. Serves the city of Voronezh, Lipetsk, Tambov, Oryol, Belgorod, Kursk regions. July 10, 1933 - open regular air service on the route Moscow - Voronezh - Stalingrad on multi-seat aircraft K-5 in 1971 a new"
"and stands at both Copernicus Airport in Wrocław and Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdańsk. The Polish airline market was until 2004 a closed market, with bilateral agreements between countries served from the national hub – Warsaw. The regional airports were mostly serving as spokes, and were controlled by PPL, the state-owned airport authority. However, in the 1990s it was decided to deregulate the airport market and abolish the dominant position of PPL. Nearly all local airports (apart from Zielona Góra airport) became separate companies, with local governments involved in their management, which led to the partial decentralisation. Soon after opening"
"of the city, near the village (now town) of Aksakovo, with local people enthusiastically working on the site together with the constructors. Construction and improvement continued throughout the years, with a new terminal built in 1972 and a new runway in 1974. In 2013, a new passenger terminal opened and the one constructed in the 20th century was closed down. There are domestic and international flights from Varna to about 70 destinations in 25 countries, with Bulgarian and foreign airlines. The airport is close to the Port of Varna and the railway system. The airport has one asphalt-covered runway 09/27"