21,000 TRANSIT PASSENGERS CARRIED BY ARMAVIA IN 2004

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 21. ARMINFO. 21,000 against planned 15,000 passengers were
carried by the Armavia company by its two transit routes
Novosibirsk-Yerevan-Istanbul and Tehran-Yerevan-Moscow, says the company’s
press secretary Garik Siroyan.

This year Armavia plans to carry 30,000 transit passengers and to open new
transit routes Beirut-Yerevan-Paris, Beirut-Yerevan-Kiev,
Aleppo-Yerevan-Moscow, Aleppo-Yerevan-Paris and from Ashgabat via Yerevan to
Moscow, Tehran, Dubai, North Caucasus and Ukraine.

By 2009 – two years after the opening of the new Zvartnots terminal –
Armavia plans to carry 100,000 transit passengers a year.

In 2004 Armavia carried 431,000 passengers – 42% more than in 2003. the
passenger turnover grew by 41% to 764.5 mln p/km, cargo turnover by 33% to 3
mln t/km. 82.6% of passengers were carried to the CIS countries. In 2004
Armavia’s share in the total passenger turnover of Armenia grew by 11% to
41%.