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A midnight drama took place at Sofia Airport. The reason is that four flights of the low-cost company Wizz Air land after midnight at the capital airport – from Catania, London, Yerevan, Riyadh.

Due to the late hour, instead of Terminal 1, where the low-cost company's flights are usually landed, the planes are processed at the newer Terminal 2.

At this time of day, however, there are not enough ground staff – both people to drive the buses with which they move between the plane and the terminal passengers, as well as staff who carry their luggage. Only passport control is carried out quickly and organized, and in addition to the check-in counters, the machines are also operating.

As a result of the lack of ground staff, more than 4 people crowded on the only baggage collection lane where suitcases arrived and on Wizz Air's 400 late flights, who initially patiently wanted to pick up their luggage at the late hour. After more than an hour of waiting, however, the voltage at the terminal heated.

"We can't first wait half an hour for a bus to come and take us off the plane and then another hour of luggage, provided that at the time we arrived there was only one more flight to process," a visibly nervous lady explained.

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A young man was persistently looking for airport and ground staff to hold accountable for more than an hour of waiting in front of the baggage bar after getting off the plane and passing passport control for people arriving from London.

In the arrivals hall of Terminal 2 there were only two employees visible – the extremely kind young man who has the task of removing people with difficult mobility from the planes and the representative at the counter for lost luggage.

After the crowd literally attacked them, however, they ran away in panic, especially since there was nothing to respond to the angry and tired people, some of them with small children.

It turned out that apparently the two luggage loaders, at least according to passengers, who explained that they had spoken to friends working at the airport, were waiting for the suitcases from several flights to be collected to make it easier for them to drop the luggage at once.

As a result, some of the people waited for hours, while others received broken suitcases, but there was no one to complain to, as the man at the counter for lost and damaged luggage had left, worried about the increasingly nervous passengers.

"It is not clear to me what kind of tourism we are talking about if this is the first impression upon arrival in the Bulgarian capital," a young man indignantly explained. A lady joked that after the wait, the screams, nerves and the queue for taxis very quickly adapts that she is in Bulgaria after the holiday. The waiting and nerve scene plays out almost every night, airport officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.