GDCA ex-head: After open sky policy, we are communicating courtyard

“The aviation sector is - in the first place - our security and we cannot follow a path of liberalization in all the directions since we are in a blockade and in a situation of neither war not peace”, the former head of Armenia’s General Department of Civil Aviation (GDCA) Shahen Petrosyan told reporters today when speaking about the open sky policy implemented by the government.

“Following the entry of Armavia airline into the market, Armenian Airlines established in 1992 in extremely difficult conditions were artificially driven into bankruptcy. A corporate raid was committed against Armenian Airlines,” he said.

In his words, Russian airlines have now begun dumping on the routes where the Air Armenia operates flights.

“A lobbyist order was placed by WB and IMF. The adoption of an open sky policy is advantageous to a person or a clan,” S. Petrosyan noted, refusing to give any details.

“By launching an open sky policy, we have become a ‘communicating courtyard’ for some adventurers,” he said.