NO AIRLINE GRANTED LICENSE FOR OPERATION OF YEREVAN-VAN CHARTER FLIGHT

Noyan Tapan
Mar 14 2007

YEREVAN, MARCH 14, NOYAN TAPAN. No Armenian airline has been granted a
licence for operation of Yerevan-Van charter flight. Aram Marutian,
Head of the RA Civial Aviation’s Air Transportation and License
Department, told NT correspondent about it. According to the Turkish
newspaper "Miliet", the general staff of Turkey’s armed forces proposed
that tourists to arrive from Armenia in order to attend the opening
ceremony of Aghtamar Church on Van Lake should arrive in Turkey by
a Yerevan-Istanbul flight and then go to Van. However, the Turkish
government proposed that either Alijan border gate should be opened
temporarily – by organizing a charter flight between Yerevan and Van
or Armenian tourists should cross the Turkish border by land transport
means and then travel to Van.