Low-cost European airlines have promised to start operating flights to Yerevan if the government lowers taxes on them, the country’s top aviation official has said.

Yerevan has long suffered from poor air connections, making it much more expensive to fly in and out of Armenia compared with neighboring countries. One reason is that high airport tariffs at the country’s main international airport, Yerevan Zvartnots, have scared off airlines that otherwise might fly there, the head of Armenia’s Civil Aviation Committee, Tatevik Revazyan, told reporters at a July 15 press conference. But the committee has prepared legislation to remove those taxes for airlines starting new routes to Yerevan.

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