ArmInfo. Low cost "Pobeda" airline suspends flights to Gyumri (Armenia) from the winter season. According to TASS, citing sources in the airline, the decision to suspend flights is connected with the systematic underfilling of fuel at Gyumri Airport.
"Unfortunately, at the Gyumri airport, the refueling company periodically practices underfilling. Pobeda repeatedly appealed to the airport management to investigate the situation. However, the airport's measures are insufficient and the refueling tanker continues to underfill. By the end of the summer season, Pobeda will carry out all planned flights to Gyumri so as not to dissapoint its customers, but from the winter season, ticket sales on this route have been suspended, "he said.
A company spokesman confirmed that sales were paused. At the moment, Pobeda operates 10 flights a week from Moscow to Gyumri (from which transportation to Yerevan is offered), seven flights a week were planned in the winter season.
The low-cost airline opened flights to Gyumri in December 2016. In response to ArmInfo's request to comment on the situation, Armenia's International Airports CJSC, which holds management of Gyumri's Shirak Airport, informed that it was not aware of the intentions of the low-cost airline, and would refrain from commenting for now.