Private jet charter in Bulgaria

Bulgaria is a flight of a little over three hours from the London fields, and by the time the wheels touch the clocks in Sofia show two hours more than at home. Private Jets UK plans these trips around five airports instead of one, because the capital in the west, the Black Sea coast in the east and the plain of Plovdiv between them lie far enough apart that landing at the wrong one costs half a day on the road. Our customers have access to 6,500 jets of all types and configurations available for rent. We will help you choose the best option based on your needs and objectives. Our catalog contains the models from the largest manufacturers: Gulfstream, Dassault, Embraer, Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Learjet, Cessna, Beechcraft, Pilatus, HondaJet, etc. We have established partnerships with the world's largest airlines and VIP terminals, which means we can offer you favourable flight conditions and a high level of service. Our experts will manage the organization of your flight - starting with paperwork, agreements, etc., and ending with a transfer and meeting at the airport. Our company provides a full range of business aviation and concierge services. In Bulgaria that service includes two things a client rarely thinks about in advance: the landing permit that a British-registered aircraft needs, and the road after landing, which in winter climbs into the Rila and Pirin mountains and in summer runs for a hundred kilometres along the Black Sea shore.

 

 

At your request, the aviation consultants of Private Jets UK will help you choose the jet with the suitable technical parameters (production year, flight hours, and home base). The cost of the private jet charter in Bulgaria depends on many factors, such as the model of the business jet, the number of passengers, departure and destination airports, type of flight, duration of parking, additional services, etc. Therefore, we calculate the price of each order individually taking into account your wishes. You can use an online calculator to get an instant charter quote. Please indicate your real contact details to get the final calculation.

You can calculate the cost of your flight in several ways:

• using an online calculator on the website (however, it shows only the approximate price);
• via Messenger (WhatsApp or Telegram);
• by landline or cell phone;
• via e-mail (jets@private-jets.co.uk).

 

 

Please note that the above-mentioned price is indicative only. It is calculated on this basis: a departure from Biggin Hill, a Cessna Citation CJ3+ nonstop to Sofia and two passengers aboard. If you want to get a personal quote, just fill out the online booking form below. Our aviation consultant will make the calculation within 20 minutes, and then contact you to specify the details of the flight.

 

How long does it take to fly to Bulgaria?

Bulgaria keeps Eastern European time, two hours ahead of Britain all year, because both countries change their clocks on the same weekends. The sectors below are from British airfields to Sofia unless stated, gate to gate, with the taxi and the approach included:

The exact flight time depends on the model of the business jet, as well as the speed of the tail or head wind. Our consultant will make a detailed calculation of the flight time for the chosen business jet.

 

 

Prices for the private jet flights to Bulgaria

Typical private jet prices from Britain to Sofia, cheapest first. Every row is a nonstop flight to the capital. The distance is long enough that the price follows the miles, so the departure airfield matters as much as the cabin:

 

 

Private jet flights within Bulgaria and to its neighbours

Bulgaria is a long, narrow country, and Sofia is more than 330 km from both Burgas and Varna in a straight line. The roads between the capital and the coast are slow, which is why an internal charter exists at all.

 

 

We can arrange the flights from any cities in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) and European countries. Due to a large database of available business jets, we can help you find an optimal jet and crew. If you have any questions about the departure or the flight itself, you can ask them using the form below:

 

 

Prices depending on the type of business jet

We can clearly show the high dependence of the cost of the flight, on the type of aircraft - we have collected approximate data, at the price of 1 flight hour, for various types of business jets:

 

 

The cost per hour indicated in the table is preliminary and does not constitute an offer or a commercial offer. Exact prices are available from the managers of the company.

 

Online Calculator

If you want to make an urgent calculation of the cost of a private plane flight, use our online calculator. Just fill in all the fields of the form with a note that you are interested in a specific model of the aircraft and get the final price. NB! - the figures are sent to you by email or messenger, please carefully fill in the contact details to get the calculation.

All our calculations are as transparent as possible for you. After receiving the request, we will prepare a beautiful offer - where the costs and the final price will be clearly described. The exact price is agreed in advance and is written in the contract, so you can be sure of the final cost.

 

 

Private jets are ready to take off

Our database contains over 6,500 business jets (about 3,500 in Europe and 3,000 in the rest of the world) of different configurations and production years. The list of models is constantly updated. Unfortunately, we can't post a full list of available jets on our website due to confidentiality issues. Please contact the managers of the company for more accurate information. We will help you choose a suitable model taking into account your wishes. These are the typical choices for Bulgaria:

 

 

For a Bulgarian booking the best aircraft is rarely in Bulgaria. The nearest suitable aircraft may sit in Britain or in another European capital, so the positioning leg can change the price more than the choice of model. We look at the whole map before a number is sent.

 

How to book a private jet?

You can book a private jet flight to Bulgaria in 6 easy steps:

1. Flight request - indicating the route and your preferences for the model of business jet and other points.
2. Coordination of flight details - our consultant will contact you to offer the possible flight options and answer all your questions.
3. Commercial offer - we will send you a final offer on a specific model taking into account all your wishes.
4. Signing of the contract.
5. Payment for the flight and booking a business jet.
6. Departure at the agreed time and date. Assistance during the whole flight.

In addition to renting the private jets and arranging the flights, we provide concierge services, premium transfer, security, exclusive catering, etc. We have learned to solve problems of any complexity, offering the service of the European level. Our experts will be happy to answer your questions and help you arrange your flight.

 

How to rent a business jet with a crew

5 main stages:

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  Sending an application

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  Clarification of details and search for options

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  Preparation and coordination of optimal options

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  Registration of documents. Payment of the invoice.

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  Departure on the route.

 

Business aviation airports in Bulgaria

Bulgaria has three airports that take a business jet comfortably from Britain and clear the border: Sofia, Varna and Burgas. Plovdiv is the fourth, used mostly for the winter ski charters, and Gorna Oryahovitsa is a field for the occasional private flight. The hours below are as listed in the aviation directories we use, and the exact opening times of customs and of each handler are confirmed in writing before every flight:

 

Four rules settle most Bulgarian arrivals before a quote goes out:

 

Arriving from Britain: passports, customs and what to carry

Bulgaria belongs to the Schengen area, and Britain does not. A flight from London therefore arrives from outside the zone, and the border check happens at the first Bulgarian airport you land at. Sofia, Varna and Burgas all have border control, and the passengers go through it in a general aviation area when a handler arranges it.

 

 

Which airport for which part of Bulgaria

Bulgaria is a country of three separate centres of gravity, and the right airport saves most of a day. The distances below are straight lines or typical driving distances from public transfer data, so allow more for mountain roads in winter:

 

Sofia, the mountains and the Black Sea: what our clients go for

Sofia is where the business is. The city has about 1.3 million residents, an information-technology sector that employs around 50,000 people and accounts for roughly 14 percent of national exports, and the kind of ministries and company headquarters that call for a quick trip. The Vitosha mountain rises behind the city, with a cable car to the Aleko hut at 1,810 metres, so a free afternoon can be spent on a slope. Boyana Church, a UNESCO site, takes visitors in groups of up to eight for ten minutes at a time, which tells you how fragile its frescoes are.

The mountains are the second reason. Bansko sits at the foot of the Pirin range and is reached by an eight-seat gondola in about 25 minutes, with some 70 to 75 km of pistes and a top station at about 2,500 metres. Borovets lies in the Rila mountains, close enough to Sofia to be reached in an hour. Pamporovo, in the Rhodope, is lower, with a top at 1,928 metres, and is usually flown into through Plovdiv. The season runs from early December to mid-April, and the reliable weeks are from January to March.

The coast is the third. The Black Sea shore is divided by two airports about 130 km apart. In the south Sunny Beach and Nessebar, the latter a UNESCO old town on a peninsula, sit within 40 minutes of Burgas, and Sozopol, founded by Greek colonists in the 7th century BC, keeps an old town of Revival-period houses. In the north Varna has the Archaeological Museum and its Gold of Varna, a treasure of more than 3,000 golden objects from burials dated to about 4600 to 4200 BC, described as the oldest gold treasure in the world. Golf has made the northern coast a destination of its own, with Gary Player courses at Thracian Cliffs and Black Sea Rama and Ian Woosnam's Lighthouse course on the Kaliakra cape.

The interior is the fourth. Plovdiv has an old town on three hills, a Roman theatre that held up to 7,000 spectators and a population of about 330,000, with Bachkovo Monastery a short drive south. The Rose Valley around Kazanlak produces rose oil, a kilogram of which takes about 3,500 kilograms of hand-picked petals.

 

The Bulgarian year: ski winter, rose spring and a long beach summer

Bulgaria has two peaks and a quiet spring between them. The private-jet calendar follows the snow in winter and the sea in summer, with the capital busy all year:

 

The Bulgarian calendar: festivals, roses and the ski opening

Dated events are few, and each one concentrates the private flights on a single airport:

 

 

Flying to Bulgaria with a dog or a cat

A dog or cat travels in the cabin, and the paperwork has two halves: the standard European set for the way out and one appointment for the way home. Bulgaria applies the rules of the European Union, and Britain is a listed country, so an animal from Great Britain does not need the blood test and the three-month wait that apply to animals from unlisted countries.

• A microchip, fitted before the rabies vaccination, not after;
• A rabies vaccination given at 12 weeks or later, at least 21 days old on the day of arrival and kept in date;
• An official veterinary health certificate for each trip, issued no more than ten days before departure;
• For a dog on the homeward leg, the tapeworm treatment 24 to 120 hours before landing in Great Britain;
• Not more than five animals per traveller.

Cats need the same list without the worming. The public information on how a private arrival is handled at each Bulgarian airport is thin, so we confirm in writing with the handler which airport receives the animal, which desk checks the certificate and what the vet needs to see. If the airport you prefer cannot take the animal, the flight goes to Sofia.

Requirements for birds, rabbits and the less usual species, along with the countries where the timeline runs to months, are set out on our flying with pets guide.

 

 

Empty Legs

An empty leg is a repositioning flight with nobody aboard, offered at a fraction of the usual price. On a sector of more than three hours the saving is worth chasing, and Bulgaria produces empty legs of its own: aircraft take clients out, wait for no one and fly home empty.

A client who can offer a few days has a far better chance of a match, though the operator owns the date and a leg can disappear when the original booking changes. Whatever is free is listed on our empty legs page. A selection of Bulgarian empty legs follows:

 

 

 

Helicopter charter

In Bulgaria a helicopter saves the road between the airport and the mountain or the beach, not the crossing from Britain. These are our estimates for the main transfers, calculated at about 115 knots with a few minutes for the start and the landing:

These are estimates and move with the weather and the load. We confirm the aircraft, the route, the number of passengers and the baggage allowance for your date before the offer goes out.

 

 

Flights from the UK to Bulgaria

Biggin Hill, London City, Luton and Farnborough send most of the traffic on this corridor, with Southampton, Birmingham and Manchester behind them and Scotland and Northern Ireland at the long end; the price table higher up covers thirteen of those pairings. Our clients have access to all airports of the UK and Europe. Due to the unique partnership conditions, we can offer our clients the best prices for business aviation services. Our experts will consult you on the availability of private jets in a particular city and help you choose the best option.

 

List of TOP 25 business aviation airports:

 

Bulgarian charters from the booking notes: six typical trips

Six typical jobs put together from booking notes with the particulars changed, so none describes one named client or date.

 

Frequently asked questions about flying to Bulgaria