TOURINFO-YEREVAN-An Icelandic national air carrier Icelandair Boeing 767-300ER aircraft flying from Los Angeles Bradley Airport with one stopover at Reykjavik Airport for refueling purpose landed at Zvartnots International Airport on July 11.
The flight is an unprecedented event in the history of Armenian air transportation.
By the special flight lasting about 15 hours, 265 passengers have returned, 240 of them are RA citizens who stayed in the United States due to the #COVID19 pandemic.
Armenian authorities and Icelandair collaborated to repatriate almost two thousand individuals with a series of flights between Los Angeles in California and the Armenian capital Yerevan.
“Our passengers are people who got stranded by the Covid-19 pandemic but have now received permission, and an opportunity, to return to their home countries,” says a press release from Icelandair.
Loftleidir Icelandic, Icelandair’s wet lease and charter arm, will provide Boeing 767 passenger jets for the project with the first flight from Los Angeles which took place on July 11, and the first US-bound flight leaving Yerevan on July 13th. The total number of flights has not yet been decided but each jet can carry 260 passengers. Each flight will make a stopover in Iceland, which happens to be almost equidistant from LA and Yerevan.
The repatriation flights are organized with the help of the transportation company Cross Line and the honorary consul of Iceland to Armenia. Around a million people of Armenian origin live in or near Los Angeles.
