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Bulgaria's Notorious Alma Tour Officially Bankrupt [Feb 16, 2012] A Bulgarian court has officially declared Alma Tour tour operator bankrupt, half a year after hundreds of foreign tourists were kept hostages at a Bulgarian airport because of the company's outstanding debts. Sofia City Court ruling was filed at the Registry Agency on January 24, the financial supervision commission announced this week. The scandal-hit Bulgarian tour operator Alma Tour and Alma ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Notorious Alma Tour Fly Files for Bankruptcy [Oct 07, 2011] Alma Tour Fly, a company within the group of scandal-hit Bulgarian tour operator Alma Tour, filed for bankruptcy on October 06, the Sofia City Court said Friday. Problems with Alma Tour surfaced in early September, when close to 1,000 international tourists, most of them Russians, were stranded at Bulgarian Black Sea airports of Burgas and Varna. Their flights were cancelled by national air ... [via YahooNews] More >>

More Bulgaria-Stranded Russians to Finally Make It Home [Sep 16, 2011] Two Bulgaria Air flights are expected to deliver back home yet another batch of Russian tourists, who fell victims to a trade dispute between the country's national airline and a tour operator. The planes are scheduled to take off at Burgas airport at 8.40 am and 12.... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Air Wants Alma Tour Operator Declared Insolvent [Sep 14, 2011] Attorneys for Bulgaria Air, Bulgaria's national airline carrier and heir to Balkan Airlines, are still considering what are the exact legal steps to undertake in the dispute with tour operator, Alma Tour. The statement was made Wednesday by Plamen Atanasov, CEO of Bulgarian Aviation Group, owner of Bulgaria Air. Some 700 Russians, 200 Finns and dozens of persons from Lithuania waited for days to ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria Air Takes Alma Tour Operator to Court over Debt [Sep 13, 2011] Bulgaria Air, Bulgaria's national airline carrier and heir to Balkan Airlines, has started legal actions to collect the EUR 3.6 M owed to it by tour operator, Alma Tour. The matter is to be resolved by the Court, and until then Bulgaria Air is firm it would not transport any customers of the the tour operator, otherwise it would place at risk all other regular and charter flights to the Russian ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria to Probe Tour Operator, Air Carrier over Stranded Tourists [Sep 12, 2011] Bulgaria's Sofia Prosecutor's Office will probe the Bulgarian Alma Tour tour operator and the Bulgaria Air airline carrier concerning the nearly 700 Russian and Finish tourists stranded in the country's southern Black Sea city of Burgas. Even though the conflict between the two companies is purely intercorporate, it can still be probed into, Margarita Nemska, spokesperson of the Sofia Prosecutor ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Hundreds tourists stranded in Bulgaria over trade row [Sep 10, 2011] SOFIA (Reuters) - Hundreds of foreign tourists are stranded at the Bulgarian Black Sea airport of Burgas after their charter flights were canceled over a payment row between their tour operator and the flight carrier, officials said on Saturday. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria National Air Carrier Might Lose License for Stranding 1000 Foreign Tourists [Sep 10, 2011] Bulgarian ministers have suggested they might consider withdrawing the licenses of the Bulgaria Air national airline and tour operator Alma Tour, after a trade dispute between them led to the cancellation of flights, stranding hundreds of international tourists. The Sofia City Prosecution has already started an investigation whether the events were caused by officers at Alma Tour, following an ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Tour Operator Opens New Bulgaria Winter Vacation Route (Novinite.com) [Mar 23, 2010] Balkan Holidays, the low-cost tour operator, has announced a new route from Leeds Bradford Airport to Sofia, Bulgaria for the next winter season. The company hopes to attract increasing numbers of skiing vacations in the expanding Yorkshire market. [via YahooNews] More >>

Bulgaria's Varna Welcomes First Tourists for 2010 Summer Season (Novinite.com) [Mar 15, 2010] The first group of foreign tourists for the 2010 summer season were welcomed Monday at the airport in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna. With a charter flight of Bulgaria Air, the Kur-Club tour operator brought 164 German tourists from Frankfurt and Duesseldorf to the Bulgarian seaside. [via YahooNews] More >>