YEREVAN ZVARTNOTS AIRPORT HANDLES MORE THAN 1.4 MILLION PASSENGERS IN 10 MONTHS

YEREVAN, November 15. / ARKA /. Armenia’s international airport
Zvartnots handled more than 1.4 million passengers and about 8,500
tons of cargo in January-October 2013, according to a statement on the
official website of the Main Department of Civil Aviation of Armenia.

It said the number of transported passengers fell by 1.5 percent
from the year earlier. But the passenger flow in October rose by 13
percent from the previous month.

During the reporting period 690,501 people arrived in Armenia through
the airport and 712,300 left it. Some 3,445 tons of goods were
imported to the country through the air gate (a 24% decline from the
year before) and 5,002 tons were exported (4.8 percent decline).

The total number of arrivals and departures handled by the airport
dropped to 7,113 from 8,833 in the first ten months of 2012.

Zvartnots airport is by Armenia-International Airports, a company
owned by an Argentine citizen of Armenian descent Eduardo Eurnekian.

In 2001 the company signed a concesional agreement with the government
to run Zvartnots for 30 years. -0-

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From: Baghdasarian