“The claim that the head of Armenian government Hovik Abrahamyan actually holds 50% of the new Armenia airline company shares is completely false.”

Government’s Information and Public Relations Department stated this in the answer to the request sent by Mediamax, commenting on the publication made by Georgian BusinessPressNews (BPN) news agency, which claimed that Hovik Abrahamyan owns 50% of Armenia airline company shares.

“We’d like to add that Armenian government headed by Hovik Abrahamyan consecutively continues the policy of reforms in civil aviation, which include involvement of new airline companies, increase of competition on the air market, improvement of air tickets price policy, etc.” says the Department.

Directors Board President of Georgian Airways and Armenia airlines shareholder Tamaz Gaiashvili commented on the publication as well.

Armenia airline company press service transferred the following statement of Tamaz Gaiashvili to Mediamax:

“Such announcements are spread by people who aim to get competitors out of the way and make Armenian government cease helping newly opened airline companies by creating hostility between the company and Armenian government. Armenian Prime Minister is interested and ready to help others in any way, so that Armenian aviation gets to its feet.”

Department of Civil Aviation told Mediamax that the owner of 51% of Armenia airline company shares is Armenian citizen Ashot Torosyan, and other 41% belong to Georgian citizen Robert Oganesyan.