YEREVAN. – In line with data publicized by the Armenian General Department of Civil Aviation, close to 59,000 airplane passengers have left from and not returned to Armenia in the first eight months of this year, Haykakan Zhamanak daily reports.    

“In the same time period last year, the number of those who left and not returned via airplane was around 62,000. 

It is apparent that the reduction by 3,000 of the number of those left and not returned via airplane is conditioned on the fact that about 5,000 Syrian Armenians have come to Armenia. 

In addition, the overwhelming majority of those people heading to Russia prefer to leave on buses, which is eight to nine times cheaper.

[But] The real picture will become clear once the information on those who left and arrived with all means of transport is made public,” Haykakan Zhamanak writes.