Air101: Balkan Holidays will return to London Southend Airport for the Summer 2025 season with a charter to Bourgas

11 October, 2024

Balkan Holidays will return to London Southend Airport for the Summer 2025 season with a charter to Bourgas

Balkan Holidays will return to London Southend Airport for the Summer 2025 season with charter service to Bourgas

The charter service to Bourgas enjoyed its first season this year and will return again next summer. The flights will run every Monday for 12 weeks, starting on 23 June until 1 September 2025.

Fans of the Bulgarian resort will again be able to sample some of the best beaches and nightlife on the Black Sea, as well as the delights of Nessebar Old Town – a UNESCO site. The resort achieved the number 2 spot in Europe for the best value for money out of 40 worldwide destinations in the 2024 Post Office Holiday Money survey. The report looks at the costs for a basket of holiday items, including a three-course meal, suncream and a beer.

Holidays are available to book on the Balkan Holidays website or alternatively pop-in to your local travel agent. The tour operator is currently offering savings of up to £675 in its Summer 2025 sale, which runs until 30 September.

Nigel Mayes, Business Development Director of London Southend Airport, said: “We are thrilled to see that Balkan Holidays will return to the airport for next year’s peak summer programme. Clearly, travellers from Essex, the east of London and the southeast have enjoyed what Bourgas has to offer this year. Summer 2025 is gearing up to be our busiest since 2019 and we look forward to welcoming sun-seekers off again to Bulgaria next year.”

Chris Rand, Marketing Manager at Balkan Holidays said: "We are delighted to be operating our charter flights to Bourgas from London Southend again for Summer 2025. Our holidays to Bulgaria provide wonderful weather, sandy beaches and exceptional value for money and they proved very popular this summer, so we look forward to another successful season next year."

The return of the Bourgas service next summer will further enhance the holiday offer from London Southend, joining new routes like Tenerife, Las Palmas, Antalya, Dalaman, Pisa, Marrakech, Enfidha in Tunisia, and the more recently announced Almeria, Reus and Malta – all of which are being flown by easyJet and easyJet holidays.

London Southend has a number of job vacancies at the moment, they are currently recruiting for an Air Traffic Control Officer, Air Traffic Control Assistant and a Trainee Firefighter. For more details, see the careers pages.

Jason Shaw.

Jason Shaw's love of the aviation industry started at a young age when he used to watch the whirlybirds of Bristow Helicopters coming and going from the garden of his Surrey childhood home. Since those days he's worked in a number of key areas within the aviation industry from airlines, travel agents, holiday companies and product selection to reporting on it for local radio and making video travel brochures.

Jason is also an experienced broadcaster, having presented on radio, television, corporate videos and video travel brochures.

He's an avid reader and has also written a number of books, articles, features and reports.

Jason loves to travel, eat cheesecake and his favourite destinations include Port Douglas, Singapore and Copenhagen.

Joshua Jordan.

Josh loves to travel and has a passionate interest in the airline industry. He's worked in both travel and the media for a number of years. His voice can often be heard on Internet-based radio stations as well and the odd commercial! The destination he calls his favourite is - New York.

Adam Shaw

Adam is the youngest member of the team, no relation to Jason and like the rest of the team, he has a keen interest in airlines, aircraft and aviation. His favourite destination is Prague and has just started taking flying lessons.