ArmInfo. The Civil Aviation Committee of Armenia (CAC) has denied information about the launch of flights between Yerevan and Simferopol since March of this year. A responsible officer of the CAC informed the ArmInfo correspondent about this in a telephone conversation.
To recall, today in RIA Novosti information appeared on the plans of the Crimean Parliament Committee on Tourism, Resorts and Sports to launch regular flights in the direction Yerevan-Simferopol. In this message, RIA Novosti refers directly to statements by head of the Committee, Alexey Chernyak: "Regular flights are planned to be launched between Crimea and Armenia from March of this year. "Pegas Fly group of companies"' Ikar company has already received appropriate permission and approval from the Federal Air Transport Agency for regular flights. Now the issue is being prepared and approvals, including in terms of flight schedules and agreements with airports. Flights are planned from March twice a week. Further on demand, but no more than seven times a week, "said Chernyak.
According to him, the flights between Simferopol and Yerevan will be the first regular international flight after the reunification of Crimea with Russia and will be a "good example" for China and Turkey.
It should be noted that this is already the second misinformation regarding the possible involvement of flights between Simferopol and Yerevan. The first such attempt was made in 2016. Meanwhile, commenting on the information of RIA Novosti to the Russian "Vzglyad" business newspaper Honored Pilot of the USSR, former Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation of the USSR Oleg Smirnov, said that if a flight is launched, .