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  • Zvartnots airport handles 670,100 passengers in January -June 2011

    Armenia's Zvartnots airport handles 670,100 passengers in January -June 2011

    YEREVAN, July 9, /ARKA/. Armenia's international Zvartnots airport
    handled 670,100 passengers in the first six months of this year, up
    from 647,900 from a year before, according to a statement, posted on
    the official website of the government-affiliated Chief Civil
    Aviation. Department.

    It said some 309,500 people arrived in Armenia in Jan.-June through
    the airport, up from 300,300 from a year earlier and 360,600 people
    left it, up from 347,600 in the first six months of 2010. Also 2,425
    metric tons of cargo arrived in Armenia through the country's air
    gates, down from 2,493 from a year before. The airport handled a total
    of 14,392 departures and arrivals, up from 4,279 Jan.-June 2010.

    Armenia's second largest airport Shirak in Gyumri handled 298,300
    passengers, up from 114,500 in the first six months of 2010. Also some
    8.04 tons of cargo arrived in Armenia through it in the same time
    span, the Chief Civil Aviation Department said. The airport handled
    136 arrivals and departures, up from 96 from a year before.

    Zvartnots and Shirak airports are run by American International
    Airports in accordance with a concessional agreement signed for 30
    years with Armenian government. American International Airports is
    owned by an Argentinean Armenian businessman Eduardo Eurnekian. -0-

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