RAMKAVARS AND AVIATION

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Ramkavar-Azatakan party, which suffered a humiliating defeat in recent parliamentary elections, is now engaged on Armenian aviation problems. The party activists are concerned not about government’s decision 331-A made on March 26, under which Armenian Airlines has nothing in common with aviation but the fact that the company’s staff is protesting and demanding justice.

Today, Ramkavar-Azatakans held a face-to-face meeting of Armenian Airlines personnel with the General Legal Adviser and the representative of the government-affiliated Civil Aviation Department.

This way the party co-chair Harutyun Arakelyan is trying to deter the company staff from protesting rallies and hunger strike. “We hope constructive ideas will appear in the course of this meeting”, he said and immediately proposed his own ideas such as “Gyumri’s airport can be used as Georgians will join the deal” etc.

Civil Aviation Department Legal Adviser Habetnak Poghosyan didn’t understand where sense of unemployment fear came to Armenian Airlines’ former employees from.

His colleague from Armenian Airlines Marietta Ghazaryan explained that the company owner, Armenian government, has been deliberately pursuing the policy leading the company to insolvency. As a result of this policy, an amount 4 to 5 million USD was pocketed only from ticket sale, Marietta Ghazaryan said. “Nobody was punished”, she added.

She said she considers the government decision 331-A an announcement of the company dismissal and bankruptcy, as according to that decision, a right to arrange flights was passed to Armavia Company, whose 67% stocks are in Sibiravia Company’s possession.

Ghazaryan is convinced Armenian Airlines’ 35-million debt is accumulated as a result of the government policy: it is known that the company has always had sufficient passengers and worked to its full capacity.

The government representative, Justice Ministry Press Secretary Ara Saghatelyan, who was present at the event, said not a single word.