ISTANBUL. – Istanbul-Armenian Dikran Altun, who organizes Turkey’s Istanbul-Yerevan-Istanbul flights, has informed that from now on these flights will be conducted once a week, instead of the previous twice a week.   

Altun linked the reduction in the Istanbul-Yerevan-Istanbul flights to the worsening economic situation in Armenia, reported Agos Armenian weekly of Istanbul.  

“Ninety percent of our passengers come from Armenia; primarily merchants, who [now] have begun to come in a lesser amount. Armenia’s economic situation has caused problems,” Dikran Altun noted. 

He also stressed that this year they foresee a worse condition for the chartered Antalya-Yerevan flights in summer.