Armenia Aircompany (Yerevan) will inaugurate operations on April 21 with scheduled passenger flights to Tel Aviv Ben Gurion and Moscow, airline president Tamaz Gaiashvili has announced.
Speaking during a press conference in Yerevan this past week, Gaiashvili said the airline had secured its Air Operators Certificate (AOC) from the Armenian Civil Aviation Department late last month. As such, it plans to operate as an LCC using a fleet of three B737s (believed to include B737-700s leased from Georgian Airways (A9, Tbilisi)) initially with B737-500s and B737-800s to follow. Armenia is also looking at CRJ twinjets from Bombardier Aerospace (BBA, Montréal Trudeau), Gaiashvili added.
Additional destinations will include Tehran Mehrabad, Dubai International, Prague Václav Havel, Kyiv Boryspil, Minsk National, Barcelona El Prat, London, Larnaca as well as Sochi, Rostov Platov, Mineralnye Vody and Samara Kurumoch in Russia.
Armenia's shaholders include: Ashot Torosyan (51% stake), Tamaz Gaiashvili (24%) and Robert Hovhannisyan (25%). Gaiashvili is also the founder of the Georgian carrier and Georgian Airways predecessor, Airzena (LV, Tbilisi).
