Ryanair, Europe’s No.1 low fares airline, today (Mon, 31 Mar), announced the first flight of its new Summer 2025 route from Sofia to Pisa took off over the weekend. Ryanair will operate 3 flights per week on this new route as part of Ryanair’s Summer 2025 schedule, providing Bulgarian citizens/visitors with even more choice at the lowest fares.

Pisa is just 1 of 43 routes that Ryanair is operating to/from Sofia Airport this summer, all of which are available to book now at ryanair.com.

Ryanair’s Head of Comms CEE & Baltics, Alicja Wójcik-Gołębiowska, said:

“Ryanair was pleased to see the first flight of our new Summer 2025 route from Sofia to Pisa take-off over the weekend, carrying lots of happy holidaymakers and marking the beginning of the Summer 2025 season. This exciting new Summer 2025 route will operate 3 times per week, offering our Bulgarian customers even more choice at the lowest fares when booking their summer getaways.

Sofia and Bulgaria’s tourism growth potential is being held back by excessive access costs at Bulgarian airports. Low access costs are the catalyst for growing connectivity and tourism as demonstrated in countries such as Italy, Hungary, Slovakia, and Sweden where govt. (and airport) decisions to reduce access costs have directly resulted in a significant uplift in capacity and tourism this summer.

Ryanair calls on the Bulgarian govt. to urgently intervene to make Bulgarian airports more competitive and unlock the country’s untapped tourism growth potential. Subject to competitive access costs, Ryanair is ready to respond with its transformative long-term growth plan for Bulgaria which will potentially double traffic to 6 million passengers p.a., 10 based aircraft (US$1 billion invest.), a 2^nd base in Bulgaria, and over 180 new highly-paid aviation jobs (300 total).

Ryanair’s full Summer 2025 schedule with over 2,000 routes across over 230 destinations is available to book now at ryanair.com.”