Two more flights from Bourgas to St Petersburg, on September 15 and 16, were cancelled because of the debt dispute between Bulgaria Air and tour company Alma Tour, Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said on September 16.
BNT quoted the Russian federal tourism agency as saying that the cancellations, of the 11.50pm and 5am flights, had left 358 Russian tourists, including 14 small children, stranded.
On September 9, Bulgaria Air announced that it would not honour any tickets or flights booked by Alma Tour, saying that the company had failed to keep up payments on seven million leva (about 3.5 million euro) arrears debt.
The September 9 decision by Bulgaria Air left several hundred tourists, mostly Russians but also including Finns and other nationalities, stranded for days at airports in Bulgaria’s Black Sea cities of Bourgas and Varna.
Intervention by the Bulgarian Government helped get some home, while others returned with the help of a Russian tour company and in the case of the Finns, with the assistance of Finland’s consumer protection body.
Attempts by the Bulgarian Government to pressure Bulgaria Air and Alma Tour to resolve their dispute have not so far produced results.
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