NO LANDINGS AT "ZVARTNOTS"
A1+
[04:04 pm] 29 January, 2009
Airplanes flying to Yerevan from different directions were not
able to make a landing at "Zvartnots" airport today due to foggy
weather. There haven’t been any landings to date and it is still not
clear as to when the airport will be back on track.
"Each airline company has its own reserved airport where airplanes
make landings in such cases," told "A1+" representatives of the
Armenian aero-navigation company.
Some airline companies use the Tbilisi airport as a reserved airport,
but due to the tense political situation, Russian planes refuse to
land in Georgia.
The "Shirak" airport of Gyumri and the Turkish city of Trabizon are
used as reserved airports. The plane coming from Prague to Yerevan
landed in Trabizon and some of the passengers on that plane were
actually Armenian journalists providing coverage of the PACE winter
session.
There have been some flights despite no landings. The press secretariat
of "Zvartnots" told "A1+" that the fog disappeared for a while and
the planes were able to fly to Moscow, Ufa and Tbilisi.