Opening of the airport in Stepanakert may and must become a cold shower for the excessively belligerent Azerbaijani officials, who use any information from Artsakh to show their warlike character to the world. And it should be noted that this belligerence is ungrounded and, most obviously, is designed for the Azeri population, as Baku is incapable of intimidating the people of Karabakh.

The new plane, which has a new wing design and an upgraded flight deck, can carry up to 467 passengers with a range of about 8,000 nautical miles.

It wasn't clear if crews had to retreat to stop work hooking up electrical systems and checking machinery to power up cooling systems.

"We still have tensions in the Middle East underpinning oil prices. Investors are expecting that Libyan oil is not returning to the markets any time soon," an investment analyst said.