Armenia’s airports handle 234,792 passengers in two months
05.03.2015,
15:58
Armenia’s international airport Zvartnots in Yerevan and Shirak airport in the second largest town of Gyumri handled 234,792 passengers in the first two months of this year, virtually as many as in the first two months of 2014, Armenia’s Chief Civil Aviation Department said today.
YEREVAN, March 5, /ARKA/. Armenia’s international airport Zvartnots in Yerevan and Shirak airport in the second largest town of Gyumri handled 234,792 passengers in the first two months of this year, virtually as many as in the first two months of 2014, Armenia’s Chief Civil Aviation Department said today.
It said some 123,164 people left the country through the airports in the first two months of the year, down from 123,403 in the same period last year, and 111,628 passengers arrived, up from 111,484 in 2014.
The number of those who left the country in January and February 2015 was by 11,536 more than those who arrived. In 2014 the negative balance was 11,919.
The amount of cargo transported by air traffic was 1,046 metric tons, and the number of takeoffs and landings was 1,355.
Zvartnots and Shirak airports are run by Armenia-International Airports, a company owned by an Argentine citizen of Armenian descent Eduardo Eurnekian. In 2001 the company signed a concessional agreement with the government to manage the airports for 30 years. -0 –
