Pobeda low-cost airline begins sale of tickets for Moscow-Gyumri flights
Russian low-cost airline Pobeda (a division of Aeroflot) that was allowed last month to operate flights form Vnukovo airport in Moscow to Gyumri, the second largest city of Armenia, said last Friday it begins sale of tickets from November 21, while the maiden flight is scheduled for December 15.
The company will operate three fights a week – on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. The company will also organize transportation of passengers from Gyumri to capital Yerevan.The press service of the airline added also that it will offer a limited number of tickets at a special price of 999 rubles or $16.
In November, a source in Pobeda told Russian news agency Interfax that the airline refused to operate flights to Yerevan because of "very high " cost of services oat Zvartnots airport.
A press-secretary for Chief Armenian Aviation Department Satenik Hovhannisyan stated that Pobeda cannot operate flights to Zvartnots since it is not intended to service low-cost airlines.
According to Interfax, the Gyumri airport, unlike Zvartnots, provided Pobeda with preferential terms of service..-0--