EasyJet Flying to Sofia

Posted by Amanda Kendle Aug 7, 2007

Flying in and out of, and around, Eastern Europe is getting much easier and cheaper the more the budget airlines expand. This week, British low cost carrier EasyJet announced that it will start flights from London Gatwick into Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, as of November 6 this year. The Gatwick-Sofia route will operate three times per week.

If you're using EasyJet, you should be aware that they've also just announced there will be charges for all checked in baggage from October 1. That means that unless you can carry everything with you as cabin baggage, you'll have to pay 5 pounds per bag (or 2 pounds if you register the luggage at the time you book). The total weight for checked in baggage is still limited to 20kg, and you have to pay 6 pounds per kilogram for anything over that - and the word is they enforce this rule pretty strictly. Your carry on luggage can have any weight though, as long as it fits the 55cm x 40cm x 20cm dimensions.

But in any case, the addition of Sofia is good news, and EasyJet is still offering a number of other Eastern European destinations, including Tallinn, Riga, Warsaw, Krakow, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava and Ljubljana.