Bulgaria Ski discussion board

hi all this is my tale of balkan holidays : booked to go from gatwick, 2 weeks before we due to go they cancelled my flight due to no transfer from sofia , same day they offered me another flight from gatwick so i said yes you would think great all done they even confirmed the change, yet the next day guess what they cancelled it again , the only option then was to go from bristol and it gets better this flight is touching down at east midlands, can not wait to see what else they mess up , will soon find out as we go on the 28 feb, i say stick to a uk tour operator, as they have not impressed me yet

Just to answer a few of the questions mentioned above.
Balkan Holidays is a UK registered company however the owners are Bulgarian. The double touches as they are known happen because not enough people have booked that date or departure & instead of cancelling the whole flight they touch down at another airport in the UK. They do this only one way so its fair for all concerned. This does however mean that they can still operate from the regional airports that other tour operators don't. I've flown with them in March from Edinburgh for the last 4 years & only once I have gone direct both ways, it adds between 45-60mins on to the journey but it means that I don't have to drive 3.5 hours to Manchester or Newcastle.
It's a chicken & egg scenario, if everyone booked early the planes would be full & the tour op's would need to cancel or change flights but as more people are booking late this kind of thing will happen or there will be a reduced amount of flights from the UK. Balkan have been operating for 43 years so they must know what they are doing. I'm going on Sunday from Edinburgh & yes on my return I'm going via Newcastle it just gives me longer to sober up before I need drive home