During the forum "Entrepreneurship, Development, Perspectives", the Minister of Transport Rosen Zhelyazkov, has announced that the bidding period in the concession procedure for the Sofia Airport concession has been extended to January 29 due to the interest of the low-cost companies.

Interested companies are, among others: British company Manchester Airport Group (MAG), Spanish AENA, Spanish Ferrovial, Bouygues, and Groupe ADP.

This airport had traffic flow of 7 million passengers in last year. This is a very competitive concession as large European and Asian companies are also interested in this 35-year concession having a scope of turnover expectation about 3500 million Euros.