TOURINFO-YEREVAN- Ryanair’s, Europe’s No.1 low-cost airline, first Milan-Yerevan flight landed at Zvartnots Airport on January 14, 2020, after several hours of delay due to a strike of Italian air controllers. The aircraft received a water salute welcome on the runway.
Head of Civil Aviation Committee Tatevik Revazyan greeted the pilots in
the cockpit and was surprised to see the second pilot being a woman. She then told: “I too am the first woman to lead the Civil Aviation Committee and the youngest in the world to serve”.
Head of Civil Aviation Committee Tatevik Revazyan and Tourism Committee Chief Susanna Safaryan personally greeted the passengers.
Ms. Rezvanyan said: “Ryanair has truly put our hidden pearl, Armenia, on the world map! Our government’s decision to remove the departure tax for new routes has more than doubled already existing routes to Europe”.
“Two other routes from Yerevan to Berlin Schönefeld and Gyumri to Memmingen will be launched in summer 2020. Also, twice-weekly routes from Gyumri to Athens and from Yerevan to Thessaloniki will start in May 2020. Also beside Ryan Air and Wizz Air (Vilnius, Vienna), new routes will be launched in 2020 by Air Baltic to Riga and France Air to Paris (Orly)”. 
Ryanair’s Olga Pawlonka said: “We’re delighted to officially launch our Armenia 2020 schedule, with the start of our new routes from Yerevan to Milan Bergamo and Rome Ciampino. Today marks the start of our first ever winter schedule for Yerevan airport which will help deliver 198,000 customers to/from Yerevan and Gyumri airports this year.”
