Plovdiv Airport
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Plovdiv Airport Krumovo Airport Летище Пловдив |
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Letishte Plovdiv EAD | ||||||||||
| Serves | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | ||||||||||
| Location | Krumovo, Bulgaria | ||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 597 ft / 182 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 42°04′04″N 024°51′53″E / 42.06778°N 24.86472°ECoordinates: 42°04′04″N 024°51′53″E / 42.06778°N 24.86472°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www.plovdivairport.com | ||||||||||
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Source: Bulgarian AIP at EUROCONTROL
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| Passengers | 77,649 
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Plovdiv Airport (Bulgarian: Летище Пловдив, Letishte Plovdiv) (IATA: PDV, ICAO: LBPD) is the airport of the second largest city in Bulgaria, Plovdiv and is the country's 4th busiest behind Sofia, Burgas and Varna. It may be referred to as Plovdiv Krumovo Airport, after a small village located 6 km south-east away from the city on the main Plovdiv-Asenovgrad highway.
Plovdiv airport serves the nearby ski resorts of Bansko, Pamporovo and Borovets, and therefore serves mainly charter flights, during the winter season from the end of December until March. The main traffic at present is charter flights to and from the United Kingdom and Russia. The airport also plays a vital role in case of emergencies and is sometimes used as an alternate for Sofia Airport, which is almost 150 km away or 1.5-hour drive on the Trakiya motorway.
The beginning of civil aviation at Plovdiv came with the first test flight between Sofia-Plovdiv-Yambol and Burgas early in 1928. In 1947 interim civilian flights between Sofia and Plovdiv was carried out.
On 2 October 1947, the regional newspaper Fatherland Voice reported that over a period of 45 days 1,500 passengers were carried, noting that the flights were always on time. In May the next 1948 regular return flight began between Sofia-Plovdiv-Bourgas and Varna. The same period also saw the former Fifth Air Regiment getting established at the airport, and a ticket office was put into use. The first flight was carried out by the airline Balkan Bulgarian Airlines with aircraft types called TABSO, S-2, and with Li-2. During the Fair Plovdiv airport served an average of 25 aircraft per day.
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