Armenia airline launches regular Yerevan-Moscow flightsAugust 1, 2016 - 12:52 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenia airline launched regular Yerevan-Moscow flights on August 1. The first flight took off from Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport at 9:15 am Moscow time and landed in the Russian capital at 11:45 am. Starting August 1, the flights will be operating on a once a day basis on Boeing 737-500-type jets. The jets will offer 2 service classes as well as the following configuration of passenger compartments: 10 and 116 seats in business and economy class respectively as well as 12 and 98 seats in business and economy class respectively. As was earlier reported, the price for Moscow-Yerevan-Moscow flight ticket, booked a month in advance stands at 138 euro including taxes. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Russia warns Armenia against “falling into West’s trap” Zakharova maintained, however, that anything that will benefit the people of Armenia can only be welcomed. CSTO: Armenia has not participated in secretariat’s work recently Recently Armenia has not participated in the work of the secretariat of the CSTO, Imangali Tasmagambetov said. Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. |