Belfast to Sofia flight

Flights from Belfast to Sofia start at €241.45 and take 7h 11m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Belfast to Sofia starts at €241.45 and takes 7h 11m door to door, run by 1 operator over 2,571 km, with around 4 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 30 days before departure.

Checked 7 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 7h 11mDoor to door
  • 4h 1mMoving
  • €241.45From
  • 632.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€223.16
  1. Emerald Airlines EA879107:3047m08:17Belfast BHDManchester MAN
  2. Thomsonfly T956509:523h 20m13:12Manchester MANSofia SOF

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

Door to door 8h 52mCO2 633.0 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€275.08
  1. Jet2.com J459906:344h 1m10:35Belfast BHDSofia SOF

Door to door 7h 11mCO2 632.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Jet2.com€241.456h 50m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Jet2.com

Sofia is big enough that where you sleep decides what the days look like. We sell the seat, not the room.

A hotel room

Rooms within reach of Sofia Central

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Booking window

When to book Belfast to Sofia

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

  1. €252.6690 days
  2. €209.0060 days
  3. €237.3245 days
  4. €194.8430 days
  5. €223.1621 days
  6. €275.6714 days
  7. €357.847 days
  8. €500.843 days
  9. €426.591 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €194.84.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 157 percent. The dearest point is €500.84, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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. €322.87Sun
  2. €275.67Mon
  3. €241.45Tue
  4. €260.92Wed
  5. €327.04Thu
  6. €308.12Fri
  7. €308.71Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Belfast

Air
  • BFS
  • BHD

Sofia

Air
  • SOF
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 2,571 km against 2,496 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Amsterdam, Liège, Manchester, Liverpool. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Belfast at 06:34 and the last at 07:30, across 4 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Belfast 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 Belfast to Sofia take?

The Flight from Belfast to Sofia takes 7h 11m door to door, of which 4h 1m is spent moving. The route runs 2,571 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 Belfast to Sofia cost?

The Flight from Belfast to Sofia starts at €241.45 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €252.07. 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 Belfast to Sofia?

1 operators run the Flight from Belfast to Sofia: Jet2.com. Between them they file around 4 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 Belfast to Sofia use?

The Flight from Belfast to Sofia leaves from Belfast BHD and arrives at Sofia 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 Belfast to Sofia?

Fares for the Flight from Belfast to Sofia bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €194.84. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 157 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Belfast to Sofia produces about 632.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 2571 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Belfast to Sofia on 7 September 2026: 2571 km of route against 2496 km in a straight line, 4 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €241.45, and 7h 11m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

SOF is not in Sofia, and the road in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

Getting from SOF into Sofia?

A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.

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