The modernisation of Sofia Airport into a new generation 5* airport is finally turning us into a modern nation
If, when the large-scale project for Istanbul’s new airport was completed, you might have felt a sense of neighbourly envy, now is the time to feel Balkan pride for Sofia Airport, Bulgaria’s largest international airport.
In 2018, Istanbul’s new airport (IST) in Istanbul’s north-western district of Arnavutköy, near the Black Sea coast, became the third international airport in Turkey after Atatürk (IST) and Sabiha Gökçen Airport (SAW). It is the most up-to-date airport on the Balkan Peninsula and a jewel in the crown of air transport in the region. If we had no idea then that Sofia would catch up, and that it would surpass this architectural and technological achievement, then today, in 2025, we are on our way to finally being first in something in the Balkans again.
