Air Armenia temporarily suspends operations

Air Armenia has suspended operations until December 20 to allow for an overhaul to the carrier's current business plan.

Airline management told the Armenian national newswire, Arminfo, that the downtime will allow it to raise fresh funding to reacquire its two A320-200s, EK-32039 (cn 1439) and EK-32050 (cn 1450), that were returned to their lessors earlier this month. In addition, it will also seek to recraft its route network choosing to focus only on its most profitable routes.

Air Armenia has struggled to recover from a ban Russia's Federal Air Navigation Service (Rosaeronavigatsia) imposed following its failure to service a USD1.1million debt in September.

Prior to its suspension of operations, Air Armenia had operated an A319-100 (in VIP configuration for use by the Armenian government), and a B737-500, on flights covering Russia, Germany, France, and Greece.
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Air Armenia’s Yerevan to Frankfurt

Air Armenia arrived in Frankfurt on September with its maiden flight from Yerevan (EVN).
The twice-weekly service (Tuesdays and Saturdays)
route will be flown by the carrier’s A320s.
No other carrier operates this route at present. Air Armenia’s only other services to Western European destinations are to Athens and Paris CDG which are also both flown twice-weekly
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Air Armenia Acquires Airbus A320 for Moscow Flights

Air Armenia commenced operations as a cargo airline on March 18, 2003 with Antonov An-12s. With the demise of Armavia, the airline commenced scheduled passenger flights on October 27 from Yerevan to Moscow (Vnukovo) with a  Airbus A320 (A320-214 EK32039, msn 1439, delivered on November 4).

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Air Armenia adds first B737-500 ahead of scheduled services launch

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