Wizz Air has started flying twice a week between Burgas and Radom, a city in Poland's Mazovia region roughly a hundred kilometres south of Warsaw. The first service operated on Tuesday, 21 July, with flights running every Tuesday and Saturday through the rest of the 2026 summer season. Tickets are on sale through Wizz Air's website and app.
It's the kind of route that sounds minor on its own: a low-cost carrier adding a mid-sized Polish city most Britons couldn't place on a map. The more useful number sits a paragraph further down. Wizz Air says it's now selling more than 245,000 seats out of Burgas this summer, over 32% more than the same period in 2025.
A Fifth Polish City, and a London Route That's Still There
Radom joins Warsaw, Gdansk, Katowice and Lublin as Wizz Air's fifth scheduled Polish connection from Burgas this year. The airline frames it as a two-way route: more Polish visitors reaching the Black Sea coast, and more Bulgarian travellers reaching what it calls "a different side of Poland," in the words of Salvatore Gabriele Imperiale, Wizz Air's corporate communications manager. "We are happy to welcome the first flight on the new route between Burgas and Radom," he said. "Passenger interest is high, and this route is another step in fulfilling our mission to expand the possibilities for affordable and convenient travel in Europe and beyond."
Radom's own pitch is fairly quiet: a historic centre, the Cathedral of St Mary, the Mazovian Centre for Contemporary Art ("Elektrownia") and a town hall, plus the Radom Air Show, which Wizz Air's own material calls the largest aviation event in Poland. None of that is aimed at a British reader specifically, but the city works as a base for exploring central Poland, Warsaw included, without the crowds of Krakow or Gdansk.
What the Radom announcement doesn't spell out, and what actually matters if you live near the Black Sea coast, is that Wizz Air's 2026 Burgas map already includes a direct route to London, alongside Budapest and the five Polish cities. Radom isn't replacing anything on that list. It's one more route added to a network the airline is visibly building up this year rather than paring back.
Why the Seat Count Matters More Than the Destination
Wizz Air currently flies 270 Airbus A320 and A321 aircraft and says it carried 68.6 million passengers across its network in 2025. Burgas and Varna, the airline says, are getting the same treatment: more routes, more frequency, positioned as part of a wider strategy to grow tourism traffic into Bulgaria's Black Sea airports rather than a one-off addition. It also points to its safety and sustainability record as part of that pitch: named among the world's ten safest airlines by airlineratings.com, twice named Airline of the Year at the Air Transport Awards (2019 and 2023), and ranked second in Cirium's 2026 global airline emissions index. None of that changes Tuesday's timetable, but it's the case the airline is making for why the Burgas expansion is worth taking seriously rather than treating as a single summer add-on.
Anyone who's flown out of Burgas over the last few summers knows how quickly that can go the other way: a route quietly dropped over the winter, a departures board with fewer gates staffed than it had in August. A network that's still adding destinations, rather than trimming them, is at least a sign the airline's Burgas base isn't being wound down. Whether it survives the winter schedule change is a separate question the airline hasn't addressed, and Novinite's report doesn't cover it either.
For British expats settled around Sunny Beach, Pomorie or Nessebar, none of this changes this week's flight schedule. But it's the number worth remembering the next time a headline mentions Burgas Airport: not which city got added, but whether the seat count is still climbing. If you're weighing up the transfer from the terminal once you land, our guide to getting around Bulgaria without a car covers the options out of Burgas, and the Sunny Beach guide has the detail on the resorts the airport actually serves. Wizz Air also sells flight-and-accommodation packages through WIZZ Holidays, worth a look if you're organising a family visit via one of the Polish cities rather than a direct flight from the UK.
What Wizz Air Didn't Say
The airline didn't disclose ticket prices for the Radom route, load factors across the wider Burgas network, or how many of the 245,000 seats have actually sold. Novinite's report, sourced from Wizz Air's own statement, doesn't cover any of that either. Read the growth figures as the airline's own account of its schedule, not independently verified traffic data.