I wonder is this increased demand for Balkan Holidays is due to the demise of Balkan Tours, the Belfast based tour operator. If I remember correctly, Balkan Tours cancelled their Bulgaria ski program last year, which Travel Solutions then picked up flights and packages to Plovdiv. Balkan Tours stated they would continue with their summer flights, however this seems not to have materialised, I guess to the benefit of Balkan Holidays and Thomson.
Has it been confirmed that Thomson will base a 757 season long at BFS, replacing the Sunwing 738?? Seems other tour operators have bought allocations on the Thomson flights; Olympic now using TOM to Corfu, Red Sea Holidays to Sharm, and think that rather than TCX operating the Thomas Cook Holidays to Ibiza and Menorca, these are now on TOM.