The plane on the Paris-Yerevan route made an emergency landing in Chisinau after Turkey closed the airspace for Armenia's FlyOne company
Turkey closed the airspace for the low-cost operator FlyOne from Armenia, a subsidiary of the low-cost airline FlyOne Moldova. The plane on the Paris-Yerevan route made an emergency landing in Chisinau, and later the passengers arrived in Armenia, Moldova 1 TV reports.
Contacted by Moldova 1, the president of the Board of Directors of the FlyOne airline, Vladimir Cebotari, stated that this is a situation with a political component, related to the relations between the two countries.
"Because of some tensions arising on the political background between Armenia and Turkey, some tensions that seem to be having some dialogues to be overcome. The Paris-Yerevan flight, which was operated by the FlyOne Armenia company, was not admitted to the Turkish airspace on Saturday and was redirected to Chisinau, and from here the passengers were re-directed to the Chisinau-Yerevan flight and the flight was already operated" , said Vladimir Cebotari.
Turkey on Saturday closed its airspace to low-cost Armenian airline FlyOne Armenia without warning, the domestic Armenpress news agency cited the carrier's board chairman as saying., Reuters reports.
"For reasons incomprehensible to us and without any visible grounds, Turkish aviation authorities cancelled the permission previously granted to the FlyOne Armenia airline to operate flights to Europe through Turkish airspace," said Aram Ananyan, FlyOne's chairman.
"Turkish aviation authorities implemented the cancellation without prior notification, putting our airline and our passengers in an uncomfortable situation."
FlyOne Armenia, a subsidiary of Moldovan airline FlyOne, began operations in December 2021. In February 2023, Ananyan told Armenpress that the carrier had five Airbus aircraft and offered flights to 14 destinations in eight European and Middle Eastern nations.
Ankara has not had diplomatic or commercial ties with Armenia since the 1990s.
