Lowcost airlines Norwegian Air Shuttle and Sterling announced in their timetables weekly flights to Bulgarian seaside resorts of Varna and Burgas between April and October.

Norwegian Air Shuttle will fly to Varna on Bulgaria’s northern Black Sea coastline and Burgas in the southern part of the seaboard every Saturday. Sterling will fly to Varna on Sundays.

Scandinavian tourists are the third most numerous group in Bulgarian seaside resorts, after German and Russian tourists.

Norwegian Air Shuttle started operating four domestic routes in 2002, later expanding to ten destinations inside the country and 60 across Europe.

It transported 5,1 million people last year and is a member of the European Low Fares Airlines Association. The company operates 20 Boeing 737-300, according to the data on its website.

Sterling is the successor to Denmark’s Sterling Airways, founded in 1962, which targeted the low-fare segment of the market in 2002, after years of declining revenues.

It transported 5,3 million people between Scandinavian countries and southern Europe last year. The company operates 29 Boeing 737 planes.