{"id":254953,"date":"2014-06-19T11:18:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T07:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=254953"},"modified":"2014-06-19T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T07:18:26","slug":"why-number-of-istanbul-yerevan-flights-reduced-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/06\/19\/why-number-of-istanbul-yerevan-flights-reduced-newspaper.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Number of Istanbul-Yerevan Flights Reduced: Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">The frequency of flights from Istanbul to Yerevan has decreased, owner of Tower airline company, prominent Armenian businessman based in Turkey Tigran Altun told the Armenian-Turkish newspaper <em>Agos<\/em> published in Turkey. Instead of flights operating twice a week (Sunday and Wednesday), there will now be flights only once a week (Sunday).&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn this regard, Yerevan-based newspaper <em>Haykakan Zhamanak <\/em>contacted Tigran Altun to determine what is the reason for this move and whether this is a permanent change. Altun found it difficult to present a clear picture of the future, only saying that the current situation is very serious and worrying. &quot;90% of our customers are petty trade merchants, and if before they would come to Yerevan once a month, now they come once every 3&ndash;4 months. This means, they&#39;re unable to sell the goods they bring, and so they don&#39;t come. They tell us if there&#39;s no money, why should they come? When they can&#39;t sell what they bring, why should they come?&quot; Altun told the Yerevan-based newspaper over the phone.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAltun mentioned that the number of customers began to decline since October of last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The frequency of flights from Istanbul to Yerevan has decreased, owner of Tower airline company, prominent Armenian businessman based in Turkey Tigran Altun&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254944,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10933,56344,56343,56345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}