# Sofia Airport (SOF)

> Sofia, BG · IATA: SOF · ICAO: LBSF · Large Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `SOF` |
| ICAO | `LBSF` |
| City | Sofia |
| Country | BG |
| Type | Large Airport |
| Elevation | 531 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| Cargo Rank | #1 |
| GPS | 42.69636, 23.41767 |

## Description

For the first time in its history, Sofia Airport (IATA: SOF, ICAO: LBSF) carried more than eight million passengers in 2025 — 8.41 million, to be precise — while moving roughly 21,900 tonnes of freight. Bulgaria's principal air cargo station runs on express: DHL operates a 10,000-square-metre logistics centre beside Terminal 2, sorting up to 3,000 shipments an hour, and in March 2026 Swissport opened a new 2,200-square-metre cargo warehouse on site. Sofia is also the home base of Compass Cargo Airlines, a Bulgarian operator of Boeing 747-400 freighters that flies for DHL and Emirates and keeps its maintenance and operations at SOF. The airport has been run since 2021 under concession by SOF Connect, a consortium of Meridiam and Munich Airport; Bulgaria Air is the home carrier, alongside a fast-growing Wizz Air base that adds an eighth aircraft and lifts summer 2026 capacity by 81 percent. The honest picture for forwarders: intercontinental tonnage mostly moves by road feeder via Istanbul, Vienna or Frankfurt, while bulk for the Black Sea region routes through the seaport of Varna. Barely 10 kilometres east of the centre at the foot of Vitosha mountain, SOF is reachable by metro in minutes. By road it ties into the A1 motorway towards Plovdiv and Istanbul and the A2, with pan-European corridors IV and VIII crossing in the city. For anyone serving Southeastern Europe, it remains a fast, uncongested express station with room to grow.

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