Air VIA is a charter airline based in Varna

Varna

Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, with a population of 334,870 inhabitants according to Census 2011...

, Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

, operating charter flights on behalf of the largest European tour operators, most of them from a broad range of European destinations into Varna Airport

Varna Airport

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 and Burgas Airport

Burgas Airport

Burgas International Airport , is the airport of Burgas , Bulgaria.In 2009, the airport handled 1,683,786 passengers. In 2010, it handled 1,872,618 passengers, a 11.2% increase compared to 2009.-Future plans and expansion:...

, as well wet lease subservices.

History

The airline was founded and started operations in 1990 as Varna International Airways using a brand new Tupolev Tu-154M aircraft. Having been established by a group of private Bulgarian investors, it initially and operated charter flights for BG Tours, Neckermann and TUI from Germany, as well as for Jetair (Belgium) and Prodintour (France). At that time, the company had 142 employees.

In 2005, Air VIA decided to replace its Tupolev fleet with more modern Airbus A320-200

Airbus A320

The Airbus A320 family is a family of short- to medium-range, narrow-body, commercial passenger jet airliners manufactured by Airbus Industrie.Airbus was originally a consortium of European aerospace companies, and is now fully owned by EADS. Airbus's name has been Airbus SAS since 2001...

 aircraft.

Fleet

As of September 2010, the Air VIA fleet consists of five Airbus A320-200 aircraft with an average age of 2.6 years, each seating 180 passengers in an all-economy class

Economy class

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layout. Another two aircraft of the same type are on order.