Armavia

Yerevan

Armavia (Armenian Արմավիա ) was the largest Armenian airline based in Yerevan and base on the Yerevan airport.

History

The company was already founded in 1996, but the flight operations began in 2001. 2002 Armavia agreed to an alliance with Siberia Airlines ( today: S7 Airlines ), which took over 70 % of the equity stake of Armavia, while the remaining shares in Armenian investors remained. In October 2002, the company took its first Airbus A320.

In August 2003, followed by a second Airbus, also took over Armavia Armenian Airlines routes from state-owned enterprises, which went bust. Subsequently acquired Armavia a monopoly of the Armenian government for certain lucrative routes ( for example, Yerevan - Moscow). In return, Armavia, domestic workers undertook to employ, not to reduce the number of flights offered and pay the state an annual fee of one million U.S. dollars. On 1 January 2005, Armavia took over additional routes of Armenian International Airways, which Armavia ascended to the largest carriers of Armenia.

2005 bought by the Russian billionaire of Armenian descent Mikhail Baghdasarow (actually Baghdasaryan, Armenian Բաղդասարյան ) the 70 % of the shares of Siberia Airlines. Baghdasarow is said that he maintains good contacts with the powerful Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian. The criticism of the World Bank at the monopoly Armavias which indicates that prices were inflated, was rejected by the authorities with the argument that Armavia was for national security is important because in the event of a resumption of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh Armavia unlike foreign providers, the flights would not adjust.

In 2011, Armavia Sukhoi SSJ was the global launch customer of 100-95, in July 2012, however, announced that they would not pick up the second Superjet ordered.

End of March 2013 presented Armavia until further notice the entire flight operations, at the same time insolvency proceedings have been announced.

Destinations

Armavia last offered to international flights, the objectives within the German-speaking varied seasonally (Cologne / Bonn, Frankfurt, Berlin -Tegel, Dusseldorf, Vienna, Amsterdam).

Fleet

In January 2013, the fleet consisted of nine aircraft of Armavia with a mean age of 17.3 years:

Incidents

• On 3 May 2006 crashed at 2:15 local time clock, an Airbus A320 -200 from Armavia from Yerevan coming, at the landing at the airport of Sochi in the Black Sea. All 113 people on board, including six children and eight crew members were killed. According to the official accident report, the pilot lost in a land prematurely due to increased stress situation due to bad weather, darkness and the time constraints, the orientation and steered the plane into the Black Sea.

• On the night of 4th to May 5, 2006 burned in a hangar at Sabena Technics at the Brussels airport from four airplanes, including an Airbus A320 - 200 of Armavia. So that the airline had lost two aircraft within two days.