Passenger traffic through Armenia’s two airports up 24% in Jan-Oct 2017 to over 2 million
06.11.2017,
14:54
Passenger traffic through Yerevan’s Zvartnots International Airport and Gyumri’s Shirak Airport grew 22.7 percent in Jan-Oct 2017, compared with the same period a year before to 2,154,092 people, the press office of the General Department of Civil Aviation of Armenia reported on Monday.
YEREVAN, November 6. /ARKA/. Passenger traffic through Yerevan’s Zvartnots International Airport and Gyumri’s Shirak Airport grew 22.7 percent in Jan-Oct 2017, compared with the same period a year before to 2,154,092 people, the press office of the General Department of Civil Aviation of Armenia reported on Monday.
Some 231,909 people went through the two airports in October alone, exceeding the result of the same period of the previous year by 12.5%.
Zvartnots International Airport’s passenger traffic grew 7.4% to 220,726 in October 2017, and in Jan-Oct 2017, compared with the same period a year earlier, it grew 18.8%.
Freight traffic through Zvartnots totaled 18,910 tons in Jan-Oct 2017 showing a 42.2% year-on-year growth.
Passenger traffic through Shirak Airport was 11,183 people in October 2017 against 624 people in October 2016 and 77,072 people in Jan-Oct 2017 against 7,689 in the same period a year before.
The number of takeoffs and landings in Zvartnots and Shirak grew 19.2% in Jan-Sept 2017, compared with the same period a year earlier.
Two airports operate in Armenia now Yerevan’s Zvartnots and Gyumri’s Shirak. Both airports are run by the Armenia – International Airports in accordance with a 30-year concession management agreement sealed with Armenian government in 2001.
The company belongs to American International Airports, an Argentine company owned by Eduardo Eurnekian, an Argentine entrepreneur of Armenian descent. --0---
Some 231,909 people went through the two airports in October alone, exceeding the result of the same period of the previous year by 12.5%.
Zvartnots International Airport’s passenger traffic grew 7.4% to 220,726 in October 2017, and in Jan-Oct 2017, compared with the same period a year earlier, it grew 18.8%.
Freight traffic through Zvartnots totaled 18,910 tons in Jan-Oct 2017 showing a 42.2% year-on-year growth.
Passenger traffic through Shirak Airport was 11,183 people in October 2017 against 624 people in October 2016 and 77,072 people in Jan-Oct 2017 against 7,689 in the same period a year before.
The number of takeoffs and landings in Zvartnots and Shirak grew 19.2% in Jan-Sept 2017, compared with the same period a year earlier.
Two airports operate in Armenia now Yerevan’s Zvartnots and Gyumri’s Shirak. Both airports are run by the Armenia – International Airports in accordance with a 30-year concession management agreement sealed with Armenian government in 2001.
The company belongs to American International Airports, an Argentine company owned by Eduardo Eurnekian, an Argentine entrepreneur of Armenian descent. --0---
