Air VIA
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| Founded | 1990 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 2 | ||||||
| Destinations | Charters | ||||||
| Headquarters | Sofia, Bulgaria | ||||||
| Key people | Tom De Geytere | ||||||
| Revenue |
 €55.8 million (2015)
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| Net income |
€0.2 million (2015)
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| Website | air-via.com | ||||||
Air VIA is a charter airline with its head office in Sofia, Bulgaria, that operates charter flights on behalf of European tour operators. Most Air VIA flights operate from European destinations into Varna Airport and Burgas Airport, the airline also offers wet lease subservices.
The airline was founded and started operations in 1990 as Varna International Airways. The company is licensed and certified according to the national and European standards for non-regular transport of passengers. In 1990, Air VIA started operations with five new Tupolev 154M. After the airline was founded by a group of private Bulgarian investors the company initially performed charter flights for Bulgarian and leading European tour operators (Neckermann, TUI Travel, Jetair and Prodintour) to and from Bulgarian seaside resorts.
In 2005, Air VIA's management decided to completely change the fleet due to the ever growing competition, EU regulations, environmental responsibility, increasing fuel prices and last but not least - higher customer requirements. Since the summer of 2006, Air VIA is the first Bulgarian airline to operate the Airbus A320 family. In 2013, the company had 217 employees. On 28 August 2015, Air Via added its first Airbus A321-200 to its fleet.
Air Via mainly operates charter flights between the Bulgarian seaside airports Bourgas and Varna and countries in Western Europe and the Middle East.
As of January 2017[update], the Air VIA fleet consists of the following aircraft:
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