{"id":49960,"date":"2010-12-04T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/12\/04\/do-not-fly-armavia-says-giro-manoyan\/"},"modified":"2010-12-04T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T12:40:00","slug":"do-not-fly-armavia-says-giro-manoyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/12\/04\/do-not-fly-armavia-says-giro-manoyan.html","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Fly Armavia, Says Giro Manoyan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250)\">Giro Manoyan, the director of the International Secretariat (also known as the Hai Dat) of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun), wrote a post on his blog today advising fellow travelers not to fly Armavia, Armenia&#8217;s national airlines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Manoyan was on the flight from Yerevan to Beirut yesterday, which, according to the Zvartnots Armenian International Airport, was delayed by about five hours.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250)\">&#8220;Arrived in Beirut on an ARMAVIA flight from Yerevan after a delay of almost five hours. Will soon leave for Aleppo by car for an event this evening and another one tomorrow. Will fly back to Yerevan from Aleppo on Monday,&#8221; wrote Manoyan, outlining his itinerary on his blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250)\">In addition to the flight being delayed, according to Manoyan, many of the passengers&#8217; luggage was lost. The Dashnaktsutyun member also expressed his discontent at the Armavia monopoly on Yerevan-Beirut flights:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250)\">&#8220;But ARMAVIA did not bring my luggage, just as it did not bring the luggages of over half the passengers. Just like that; nor forwarning, no apologies, no nothing&#8230; The earliest possible delivery time is in a week&#8217;s time, because that&#8217;s when the next flight is. To top it off, ARMAVIA says they don&#8217;t reimburse for the delay and ALL the inconvinience [sic] they&#8217;ve caused. That&#8217;s what happens when ARMAVIA has monopoly over the flights between Yerevan and Beirut. That&#8217;s what happens when ARMAVIA is &#8216;too close&#8217; to the ruling elite.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250); min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; background-color: rgb(254, 253, 250)\">&#8220;Next time, DO NOT FLY ARMAVIA, tell them I said so!!!&#8221;&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>Manoyan was on the flight from Yerevan to Beirut&#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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[657,12209],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49960"}],"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=49960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}