2024-06-04 00:31:31
“Hetq” wrote:
The one airplane of the “Armenian Nationwide Airways” firm (often called “Fly Arna”), which was idle at “Zvartnots” since January 16, flew to Sharjah on February 26. And within the record revealed right this moment by the Civil Aviation Committee, that plane is lacking, which implies that it has been faraway from the Armenian register.
Allow us to remind that till 2023 November “Fly Arna” had 2 “Airbus A320” aircrafts, which have been registered in RA as EK-YRB and EK-YRC. On November 9, EK-YRC left Yerevan for Sharjah, and on the finish of the identical month, it was deregistered from the Armenian registry after which entered into the UAE plane registry, the plane fleet of “Air Arabia” (Arabic registration: A6-AQH). A6-AQH is at the moment flying with an Arab service.
In actual fact, on February 26, EK-YRB additionally left for Sharjah, the place Air Arabia is predicated. Since, as stated, it was additionally faraway from the RA plane register, it seems that it repeats the trail taken by EK-YRC. In different phrases, the logic means that the airplane will quickly be registered overseas, in response to all, within the UAE itself, inside “Air Arabia” or one in all its subsidiaries.
“Fly Arna” is a results of Armenian-Arab cooperation. 49% of it belongs to “Armenia State Curiosity Fund” CJSC (ANIF), which is a state fund, and 49% belongs to the Arab “Worldwide Enterprise Firm (FZE)”, which is affiliated with “Air Arabia”. ” to the airline. In actual fact, this Arab service is taken into account a shareholder of “Fly Enviornment”. The remaining 2% belongs to RA citizen Varuzhan Nergizyan, who’s a Lebanese-Armenian economist and businessman, a consultant of the enterprise circles of the UAE, Lebanon and different nations of the Center East.
Let’s remind that “Fly Enviornment” and its Armenian founder ANIF have been gathering black clouds because the finish of final yr. There have been personnel adjustments in ANIF in December-January. the board of administrators was modified, and Deputy Minister of Financial system Ani Ispiryan turned its president. After a short while, Ispiryan was dismissed from workplace and have become an accused in a prison continuing, which, nevertheless, has nothing to do with ANIF. However, there may be additionally a prison continuing relating to ANIF, which was initiated below the article of abusing official powers or the affect attributable to them within the non-public sector. The investigation is carried out by the Anti-Corruption Committee.
In January, the newly fashioned board of ANIF eliminated Davit Papazyan from the place of government director of the fund, appointing Tigran Ghazaryan, an worker of ANIF, as a short lived administrator.
On the finish of 2023, the founders of “Fly Enviornment” elevated the constitution capital of the airline from 6 billion drams to eight billion. In January, ANIF advised “Hetkin” that the rationale for this was “sure monetary issues” within the airline. The fund didn’t reply to our query as to why the airline has not operated flights since January 16. We additionally requested to touch upon the data showing within the Armenian press that issues arose between ANIF and “Air Arabia” relating to the success of the agreements relating to “Fly Enviornment”, however there was no response. ANIF additionally knowledgeable “Hetk” that the Armenian service returned the ticket cash to the passengers who purchased tickets however canceled the flights, furthermore, it assured that no passenger was harmed in reference to the refund of the ticket cash.
We requested the fund if we should always look forward to the resumption of “Fly Enviornment” flights. In that case, when is it deliberate? ANIF solely famous that work is at the moment underway (in January) to renew the sale of air tickets, and added that within the close to future extra detailed further details about the actions of “Fly Enviornment” might be supplied. Thus far, the fund has not supplied clarifications.
Let’s remind that EK-YRB was registered in Armenia in 2022. in September and EK-YRC in December of the identical yr. Each registrations have been legitimate for five years every, till 2027. Nonetheless, occasions led to EK-YRC being faraway from the Armenian register a yr later, and EK-YRB a yr and a half later.
Though “Fly Arna” has not operated flights since January 16, its plane operator’s certificates (AOC) is legitimate till 2039. However because the final plane, EK-YRB, has additionally been faraway from the RA registry, an issue arises.
The purpose is that an airline with an OSP have to be the proprietor or lessee (sublessee) of no less than one plane, or no less than have a memorandum of understanding on the lease (sublease) of the plane, in any other case its OSP operation might be suspended for a most of 60 days, throughout which era the service should take motion. to fulfill the said authorized requirement. Failure to take action will invalidate his certificates. And with out OSHV, no air service could make industrial flights.
“Armenian Nationwide Airways” CJSC as a authorized entity, in response to SRC information, continues to be an working firm right this moment. In January, ANIF knowledgeable “Hetk” that there have been no layoffs on the airline within the final 2-3 months, and earlier than that the fund introduced that “Fly Arna” gives greater than 125 jobs.