Sofia - Vrazhdebna (SOF / LBSF)

One spotting day on Sofia airport,Bulgaria. 02.03.09

Sorry for the quality of pictures,but my camera is simple.



Bae 146-200 LZ-HBZ Hemus Air





Bae 146-200 LZ-HBC Hemus Air





unknown





Embraer 170LR SP-LDK LOT Polish Airlines



Airbus A319 - 112 LZ-FBB Hemus Air





Boeing 737-530 D-ABIY Lufthansa



Airbus A319 - 112 OK-NEO CSA-lines



Airbus A319 - 131 G-EUPH British Airways









LOT





Lufthansa



Bulgaria Air 737 - 5..











Airbus A320 - 211 F-GKXB Air France





CSA







Airbus A320 - 214 LZ-FBE Bulgaria Air , Delivery date 05/02/2009





Fokker 70 OE-LFP Tyrolean Airways





Boeing 737 - 6Q8 HA-LOG MALEV



Airbus A320 - 232 LZ-WZB Wizzair Bulgaria



Airbus A319 - 114 D-AILW Lufthansa



Austrian and Hemus



Hemus LZ-HBC



Airbus A319 - 112 HB-IPV Swiss International Airlines



CRJ-200LR D-ACRM Eurowings

Wow Randi! Those are very interesting shots. It's great to have a spotter in Bulgaria. Sofia is not an airport we hear much about, let alone see pictures from there. Thanks a lot for sharing and please feel free to bring as many photos to this site as you can! We love them and I'm sure I speak on behalf of everyone here when I say that.

Cheers

Excluding the bulgarian traffic, there are the same airliners as in OTP.

Nice pictures, randi! Except for the national airlines and the low-cost ones, you have pretty much the same traffic as we do at LROP. Nice snowy mountains in the background, that's something we are missing around Bucharest. Feel free to post as many photos as you wish !

How is the security at your airport behaving in regard to spotting? Is it recognized as a hobby or do you still have problems?

great job randi! i love the fact that you have a lot of traffic! keep them coming!
the unknown plane is a LET-410 Turbolet

nice photos Randi....I have a photo of OK-NEO , the CSA airplane, taken at OTP two weeks ago and Arianne has one taken at AMS a few days back.....he's traveling a lot

Good job Randi, keep 'em coming.There aren't so many photos with SOF here.I like the totally white Airbus A320 Bulgaria Air, still a virgin...

Nice pictures Randi! Good job!

arianne a scris:

Nice pictures, randi! Except for the national airlines and the low-cost ones, you have pretty much the same traffic as we do at LROP. Nice snowy mountains in the background, that's something we are missing around Bucharest. Feel free to post as many photos as you wish !

How is the security at your airport behaving in regard to spotting? Is it recognized as a hobby or do you still have problems?

I`m flattered you liked my pics. There are no problems with the security - in general, though they asked me why was i there... The only occasion people aren`t allowed to take pics, is whenever El Al is landing or taking off.

May i ask why EL AL is so special?
Thank you.
Great job Randi.

eli-arw.. el-al is a special situation in bucharest aswell (and allover the world ), they run a much tighter security and other measures since israel i targeted because of the things going on in their region.

Thank you RATus.

26.04.09

Wizz Air take off for London



Republic of Bulgaria TU 154 LZ - BTZ for Moscow







LZ - YUR Air Lazur



D-AILE Lufthansa A319-114 from Munich



G-EZDC EasyJEt A319-111 for London





An 26





OE-LFL Austrian Arrows Fokker F-70 from Vienna



D-AILE for Munich



RA-96011 IL96 - 300 Aeroflot for Moscow

Wow! Great shots Randi! That Tu-154 is probably the most graceful aircraft I've seen. The more I see it, the more I like it. The Aeroflot IL-96 is awesome too, but I'm a bit confused. Why would they bring such large aircraft to Sofia? In Bucharest, I think Aeroflot brings their Airbus narrow fleet. (right OTP guys?) Is there such demand between the two cities? Moscow - Sofia, that it warrants a widebody jet?

For example, there are a lot of heavies that fly between Vancouver and Toronto or Toronto Montreal (which by the way is about an hour and a bit flight), but these routes are on high demand and they can easily fit 300 people for in one.

Nice pictures, randi. Big airplane, that IL96 are there so many passengers travelling between Sofia and Moscow?

LOL, capt.Vio is reading my mind. Wrote this the same time

Usually Aeroflot fly with A319/320 in spring/summer time and A321 in winther,but sometimes they fly with big plane.Two time they going in Sofia with A330 and two (25 and 26.04.09) with IL 96 and must ones again - 01.05.09.But Bulgaria Air fly to Moscow too in days monday,wednesday,friday and sunday in this day we have two fligts to Moscow.

Great shots,randi,but the Tu-154 is the greatest!

Hi everyone! Today is the day of the Bulgarian army and like every year there was a military parade in Sofia. Our air force took part with one Mi 17, three Eurocopter AS 532 Cougar, one of our new C-27J Spartan, three Sukhoi Su-25 and three Mig 29. My pictures aren't good enough because of my camera. Here you can find better ones: http://www.airgroup2000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=225669&start=225 and http://www.airgroup2000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=225669&start=240.

Hi all. Here some pictures from Sofia Airport taken on Sunday. It was very hot and the distance wasn't for my FZ18 so sorry about the quality.

Terminal 1-used by low cost and charter companies:





In the distance the new terminal 2:



Hemus Air-Bae 146:





Austrian:



British:





Bulgaria Air with old livery:



One of the six new Airbus for Bulgaria Air/Hemus Air. Sadly only one of them wears Bulgaria Air sheme for now.





Lufthansa:



LOT:



Air France with Babybus:



Sky Airlines:



Other Bulgaria Air Airbus:



Again:





Bulgaria Air Government fleet:

Dassault Falcon 2000 and Mi 8:



Tu-154 which will be replaced by two A319 (LZ-AOA and LZ-AOB) this month:



Lufthansa:



Again one of the Airbuses:



Hemus Air Atr 42 operating for Belle Air (Albania):



















Preparing for flight to Varna:











I hope you like the pictures.

I sure liked them, thanks for sharing LZB123! Hope you've got more

the one with the 3 Su-25's is just marvelous!

Nice shots! Keep them coming

BRGDS

TK

Thank you!

Saturday and Sunday there is an airshow (BIAF 2009) at Plovdiv-Krumovo Airport.I hope take some good pictures there.
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Nice photos, the mountains are wondeful, i like very much.The aircraft from Aeroflot are very very beautiful, i would like to fly with this kind of aircraft.

22.05

LZ-FBD Bulgaria Air A320-214 ex. Vueling Airlines EC-JNA





G-EUUX British Airways A320 from London



overflight



LZ-HBB Hemus Air Bae 146-200



D-AIPX Lufthansa A320-211



Lufthansa 737



F-GUGM Air France A318



LZ-FBB Bulgaria Air A319-112 ex. Skybus



Air France take off to Paris