Balgarianovinite.com Multiple emergency flights Thursday brought Bulgarians back home from various countries in the Middle East where they were stranded by the disruption of air traffic amid the ongoing escalation. The flights arrived with a total of 706 passengers, according to the official accounts.
Two flights carrying Bulgarian tourists from Dubai and Abu Dhabi landed at the Vasil Levski Sofia Airport on the night to Thursday, the Transport and Communications Ministry and the airport said. The government aircraft took around 90 passengers home from Abu Dhabi. The second flight, operated by the airlines GullivAir, landed at 03:32 a.m. local time with 326 Bulgarian passengers.
According to Sofia Airport website, a FlyDubai flight landed at Sofia at 01:32 a.m. local time on Thursday.
A Bulgarian Air flight with Bulgarian tourists from Oman and Dubai is expected to land in Sofia at 17:50 p.m. on Thursday.
Two Bulgaria Air flights brought Bulgarian tourists back to Sofia from Oman and Dubai Thursday evening. One plane took off from Oman’s Salalah International Airport and landed in Sofia at 18:01 Bulgarian time with 110 passengers on board. Of these, 74 were on a charter flight of the airline, and the rest are included in a list of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The second plane departed from Dubai with 180 passengers, landing at Sofia Airport at around 7:50 p.m.
The first Bulgarian tourists to fly back from Dubai since the start of the conflict landed at Varna Airport on Wednesday.
Bulgarian tour operators and travel agencies complained over what they describe as a lack of coordination, transparency and timely institutional response to the crisis following the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East on February 28.
Emerging from a meeting of the Security Council at the Council of Ministers concerning the situation in the Middle East on Thursday, Foreign Minister Nadezhda Neynsky told the press that the evacuation of Bulgarian citizens from the conflict zone in the Middle East is continuing, and at this stage it is proceeding in a highly organized way.
Responding to media reports about suspension of Bulgarian State-organized evacuation flights from the Middle East, the Foreign Ministry Thursday said that it was organizing another flight to the United Arab Emirates, which is expected to take off “as soon as possible”.
The European Commission has announced that it has begun organizing evacuation flights for European citizens in the Middle East as of Wednesday. The first six flights will bring citizens back to Bulgaria, Italy, Austria, and Slovakia, a press release said. Additional flights under the EU Civil Protection Mechanism are planned in the coming days, with more EU Member States expressing their willingness to participate, the Commission said. All possible steps have been taken to ensure the safety of EU citizens. By Thursday, ten countries had activated the mechanism: Bulgaria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovakia, and Austria, the press release added. Multiple Emergency Flights Bring Bulgarians Back from Middle East Countries 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-03-05 20:07:49 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law