Located in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sofia (IATA: SOF) is a large international airport. Scheduled flights operate here. If you're driving, the closest border checkpoint is Kalotina - Gradina — roughly 55 km.

Key facts

IATA codeSOF

ICAO codeLBSF

CitySofia

RegionBG-23

CountryBulgaria

Coordinates42.69669, 23.41144

Elevation1742 ft (531 m)

Typelarge international

Scheduled serviceYes

WebsiteOfficial site

Nearest border checkpoints

Flights and destinations

Counted from the departure and arrival boards we sample ourselves, since 25.07.2026. Civil passenger flights only — this is our own recording, not the airport’s official traffic report.

705 Flights recorded

371 Departures

335 Arrivals

93 Destinations

37 Airlines

15.7 Per day (avg)

Most popular destinations

Where departures from here actually went, ranked by how many we recorded. Flight numbers are shown the way they appear on a ticket.

Vienna VIE Flight numbers: OS 772 · OS 774 · OS 776 — Austrian Airlines, Buzz, Lauda Europe 17 flights Varna VAR Flight numbers: FB 852 · FB 971 · FB 973 — Bulgaria Air 14 flights Munich MUC Flight numbers: LH 1703 · LH 1705 · LH 1707 — City Airlines, Lufthansa 12 flights Warsaw WAW Flight numbers: LO 2850 · LO 632 · LO 634 — LOT Polish Airlines, Wizz Air 11 flights Arnavutköy, Istanbul IST Flight numbers: TK 1028 · TK 1030 · TK 1032 — Turkish Airlines 11 flights Frankfurt am Main FRA Flight numbers: LH 1427 · LH 1429 · LH 1431 — Bulgaria Air, Lufthansa 10 flights Milan BGY Flight numbers: FR 3401 · FR 3438 · RR 3401 — Buzz, Ryanair, Wizz Air 10 flights

Tel Aviv TLV Flight numbers: IZ 1364 · EAF552 · LY 552 — Arkia Israel Inland Airlines, Bulgaria Air, El Al 10 flights

London STN Flight numbers: FR 8516 · FR 9962 · RR 1731 — Buzz, Ryanair 8 flights Barcelona BCN Flight numbers: FB 477 · FR 6301 · RR 6301 — Bulgaria Air, Buzz, Ryanair 8 flights Athens ATH Flight numbers: A3 981 · A3 983 · FB 807 — Aegean Airlines, Bulgaria Air, Sky Express 8 flights Antalya AYT Flight numbers: EAF3667 · EAF3777 · FB 8843 — Bulgaria Air, Electra Airways, Pegasus Airlines 8 flights

Check your flight’s departure punctuality

A timetable tells you when a plane is meant to leave. How often it actually leaves on time is a different question. We sample departure and arrival boards throughout the day and keep the history: when a flight was scheduled to go, and when the wheels actually left the runway. The gap between those two moments is the real delay.

Enter the flight number from your ticket — BVL5361, for example — and you will see how many departures we have observed, the average and median delay, and the share that left on time. This is not a forecast: it is what has already happened to this flight before. Useful when you are planning a connection, or working out how much time to allow for the border crossing on the way to the airport.

Both the ticket code (LO282) and the callsign (LOT282) work.

Departures are most accurate for the airports whose boards we sample continuously.