Armavia Air Company opens new routes

Armenian national carrier Armavia Air Company opens new routes to and from Madrid, Lyon, Marseille, and Barcelona, the owner of the company, businessman Mikhail Bagdasarov told at a press conference.
Armavia opens new routes very carefully, taking into account that Armenian passengers’ financial potential is not high. Regarding the ticket discounts, the businessman told that it is not expected at least in the summer.
“Ticket prices do not go down in summer it usually happens in winter,” the owner noted.
At the same time, he promised to consider on possible discount of tickets for journalists in holiday season.

Armavia to carry our regular flights Madrid, Amritsar, Munich

Armavia Aircompany will soon carry out regular flights to Madrid, Amritsar and Munich cities.
Flights to Madrid will operate on Thursdays and Saturdays with departure from Yerevan at 6:05 local time.
Starting from March 9, 2011 the aircompany will start regular flights to the Indian holy city of Amritsar. Yerevan-Amritsar-Yerevan flights will operate on 3/4 and 4/5 of the week.
Yerevan-Munich-Yerevan will be carried out on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with departure from Yerevan at 10:50 am (local time), starting from March 29, 2011.
Armavia also offers convenient connections from Amritsar to Birmingham, Rome, Moscow and back to Yerevan on an exclusive low fares, Spokeswoman for Armavia Nana Avetisova told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
Madrid, Amritsar and Munich are the second points of the national airline Armavia in Spain, India and Germany, along with Barcelona, New Delhi and, Berlin.

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In spring armenian national air carrier “Armavia” will make flights in three new directions

In spring Armenian national air carrier “Armavia” will make flights in three new directions, press-secretary of the company Nana Avetisova informs.

The company will make regular flights to Madrid on Thursdays and Saturdays at 06:05 (05:05 Moscow time) from Yerevan.

“Madrid will become the second destination point of national air carrier to Spain along with Barcelona”, she said.

From March 9 “Armavia” will start regular flights to Amritsar (India) which will also become the second destination point of the company in India. The flights will take place on Wednesdays, Thursdays or Fridays.

“Armavia” suggests convenient connections from Amritsar to Birmingham, Rome, Moscow and back via Yerevan by exclusive low tariffs.

Third new direction will be the capital of Bavaria – Munich which is the second destination point in Germany along with Berlin.

“Flights Yerevan-Munich-Yerevan will be implemented on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 10:50 (09:50 Moscow time) from Yerevan starting from March 29”, said Avetisova.

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Armavia launches direct flight from Yerevan to Barcelona

Armenia’s national air carrier ArmAvia launched a new direct flight from Armenian capital Yerevan to Barcelona, Spain.

During the presentation ceremony Armavia CEO Norayr Belluyan said the direct flight will allow tourists from both countries to visit each other’s country to enjoy the sites of Yerevan and Barcelona.

The flight is operated once a week every Sunday. Spanish consul in Armenia, Mher Badalian, welcomed first Armenian passenger arriving in Barcelona. He said the new flight is very important for Spain’s 45,000 strong Armenian community as well as for businessmen.

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Armavia launches direct flight to Barcelona

On June 20, Barcelona International Airport hosted official launching of Yerevan-Barcelona-Yerevan direct flight of Armavia national carrier.
Armenia's Consul to Spain Mher Badalyan said that previously people had to take charter flights to get to Barcelona from Yerevan via other European cities, but from now on Armavia offers new opportunities. "It will definitely contribute to the development of economic ties between Armenia and Spain," he said.
For his part, Armavia CEO Norayr Belluyan added that the company is consistently implementing its plans and Yerevan-Barcelona-Yerevan flight is among three flights to be launched by Armavia this year.
Commenting on the company's plans, Belluyan said that Yerevan-Warsaw, Yerevan-New York flights will be launched soon. "They will help creation of a transport route between Europe and Asia via Yerevan," he said.

Source: panarmenian.net

Airline company “Armavia’ presented a gift to its 200th passenger

Yesterday national airline company “Armavia” presented a valuable gift to its 200th passenger since 2010.

“A gift from the airline company TV-set LCD received Sofia Elchey, representative of one of international organizations who arrived to Yerevan from Tbilisi for participation in the seminar of statistics.

She thanked the airline company “Armavia” for warm attitude and attention saying that it is the first time she had success.
“It is very pleasant to have such a surprise being in a business trip. After Yerevan we depart to Kiev and other NIS countries. We have a large Armenian community in Budapest. I know Armenians and respect them”, she said.

Acting Commercial Director of the company Anna Atoyan emphasized the importance of such an action which became a tradition for the company.

Atoyan said that from July regular flights will be implemented to Barcelona, Warsaw and Tehran.

Airline Company “Armavia” was established in 1996. From July 2005 the full package of shares went to Mikhail Baghdasarov, president of the company “Mika Limited”. In 2009 more than 700 thousand passengers were transported by “Armavia”. Currently “Armavia” consists of 9 planes (А320-3, А319-3, CRJ-200, YAK-42-VIP).

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Yerevan-Tbilisi flights suspended due to unprofitability

Yerevan-Tbilisi flights were cancelled due to unprofitability, Armavia president Mikhail Bagdasarov said on February 3, adding that within 10 months of 2009 the losses reached $3 million. He also informed that the company requested assistance of Tbilisi airport to cut taxes. “For each passenger we pay €21 plus other expenses, but they refused to do so. Therefore, we decided to suspend the flight,” Bagdasarov stated underlining that Georgian colleagues eventually lowered the tariffs and most possibly Yerevan-Tbilisi flight will be carried out starting February 10.
This year Armavia will operate new flights to Cyprus, Tel-Aviv, Delhi, Barcelona, and increase number of flights to Italy up to 4-5 times a week.
Company’s president also emphasized: “A new Boeing 767 will be purchased by the company shortly enabling long distance flights to the U.S., China, Thailand and Japan.”
Today, Armavia was awarded with IOSA (Operational Safety Audit) certificate by IATA for security. Bagdasarov noted that his company gets the certificate for the second time.

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Armavia plans opening of new flights for the coming year

Armenian national carrier “Armavia” company is planning for the coming year opening of new  flights to Barcelona, Warsaw as well as to the USA and Canada. Press secretary of the company Nana  Avetisova told Armenpress that in general the company is planning to implement 250 flights in a month in more than 30 directions. As of today the company has 6 airplanes – two “A-320”,  three “A 319” and one “CRJ 200”. 
In April 2010 it is planned to fill the park with “Superjet 100” passenger-carrier new airplanes  which have 98 places. “Armavia” was planning to get two new “Superjets” in December this year and in  January of 2010 but connected with the certification issues of the new airplanes they will be brought to  Armenia in April. The new planes will be acquired for transatlantic flights.

Source: armenpress.am