Bangkok to Sofia flight

Flights from Bangkok to Sofia start at €649.73 and take 16h 51m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Bangkok to Sofia starts at €649.73 and takes 16h 51m door to door, run by 4 operators over 8,641 km, with around 2 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 22 September 2026Priced for 12 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 16h 51mDoor to door
  • 12h 15mMoving
  • €773.04 to €1,885.19From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 2Per day
  • 2447.0 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 12 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€773.04 to €1,885.19 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €1,457.44Wed23
  2. about €1,885.19Thu24
  3. about €1,609.66Fri25
  4. about €1,466.29Sat26
  5. about €1,370.71Sun27
  6. about €1,258.02Mon28
  7. about €1,136.48Tue29
  8. about €827.91Wed30
  9. about €1,295.78Thu1
  10. about €976.00Fri2
  11. about €1,046.21Sat3
  12. about €978.95Sun4
  13. about €933.52Mon5
  14. about €773.04Tue6

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 12 October 2026

Cheapest€649.73
  1. Turkish Airlines TA194607:3011h 14m14:44Suvarnabhumi Airport BKKİstanbul Airport IST
  2. Pegasus Airlines PA850116:191h 6m17:25İstanbul Airport ISTSofia Airport SOF

Changes at Istanbul, with 95 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 17h 5mCO2 2362.1 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€790.15
  1. Emirates E762007:307h 18m11:48Suvarnabhumi Airport BKKDubai International Airport DXB
  2. Flydubai F129813:144h 57m17:11Dubai International Airport DXBSofia Airport SOF

Changes at Dubai, with 86 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 16h 51mCO2 2531.8 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

  • Turkish Airlines
  • Pegasus Airlines
  • Emirates
  • Flydubai

The flight gets you into Sofia. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Sofia for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Sofia Central and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Bangkok to Sofia

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €691.0390 days
  2. €641.4760 days
  3. €739.4145 days
  4. €877.4730 days
  5. €722.8921 days
  6. €773.0414 days
  7. €1,136.487 days
  8. €1,609.663 days
  9. €1,457.441 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €641.47.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 151 percent. The dearest point is €1,609.66, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €978.95Sun
  2. €933.52Mon
  3. €773.04Tue
  4. €827.91Wed
  5. €1,295.78Thu
  6. €976.00Fri
  7. €1,046.21Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Bangkok

Air
  • BKK
  • DMK

Sofia

Air
  • SOF
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 8,641 km against 7,935 km in a straight line, a detour of 6 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Dubai, Istanbul. The gap between arriving and leaving is 86 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 11 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Bangkok at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 2 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Bangkok to Sofia

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Bangkok to Sofia take?

The Flight from Bangkok to Sofia takes 16h 51m door to door, of which 12h 15m is spent moving. The route runs 8,641 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Bangkok to Sofia cost?

The Flight from Bangkok to Sofia starts at €649.73 for one passenger, as of 22 September 2026. A typical fare is €719.94. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Bangkok to Sofia?

4 operators run the Flight from Bangkok to Sofia: Turkish Airlines, Pegasus Airlines, Emirates, Flydubai. Between them they file around 2 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Bangkok to Sofia use?

The Flight from Bangkok to Sofia leaves from Suvarnabhumi Airport BKK and arrives at Sofia Airport SOF. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Bangkok to Sofia?

Fares for the Flight from Bangkok to Sofia bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €641.47. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 151 percent, measured on 22 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Bangkok to Sofia produce?

The Flight from Bangkok to Sofia produces about 2447.0 kg of CO2 per passenger over 8641 km, which works out at roughly 283 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Bangkok to Sofia on 22 September 2026: 8641 km of route against 7935 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 4 operators a cheapest fare of €649.73, and 16h 51m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Sofia is large, and the road in from SOF can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Sofia

Settled in advance, so the ride into Sofia costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

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