YEREVAN. – Alliance airline company of Armenia will start conducting flights in March 2016, said company founding director Ararat Sargsyan, at a press conference on Friday.
Sargsyan noted that Alliance solely has two airplanes for now, and it will conduct around thirteen flights—Yerevan-Moscow, Yerevan-Beirut (Lebanon), Yerevan-Iran, Yerevan-Ashgabat (Turkmenistan), and Russia.
He informed that this airline company opened in April 2014, and it already has received an operator’s license from the civil aviation.
“Determining the price policy is very difficult,” added Sargsyan. “[But] it will not be high, [and] it will be reviewed every hour, every minute, before each flight.”
As per Ararat Sargsyan, Armenia’s biggest mistake was to conduct an “open skies” policy because, not having an Armenian airline, the respective work got underway with the four major Russian airline companies.
“Armavia [i.e. the national carrier of Armenia, and which had declared bankruptcy] did not fail, but they made it fail, since it was a monopoly in the [aviation] market, and it had no right to fail,” stated Sargsyan. “The basic errors were staffing and management issues. The market is risky, but I’m taking this risk, since my planes have more than one hundred seats.”
