The whole Armavia company, the national air transporter, will not be sold, only a part of it is up for sale, and as Nana Avetisova, the press secretary of the company, said during a conversation with www.aravot.am today, there are a lot of buyers. As for who are those who “want” the national air transporter, and whether there were Russians among them, Nana Avetisova said that no, but there were different companies and nationals of different countries: “The most important thing for us is that there is such a package of proposals that after making the deal, the given company will still be a good partner for Armenia.” www.aravot.am inquired who had made the best offer so far, Ms. Avetisova didn’t say, explaining that it was a commercial secret, and the companies that had submitted applications wouldn’t like themselves to be disclosed in the first place. The press secretary of Armavia also said that there was an Italian company among the buyers, and that the program it had offered was the worst proposal.
In response to our question whether the reason for putting the national air transporter’s shares up for sale was debts, Nana Avetisova said that it was owner Mikhail Baghdasarov’s business, and the press secretary wasn’t entitled to answer such a question. In response to another question of www.aravot.am whether the statements that Armavia had a lot of buyers was not a PR action, in order to raise the price, Nana Avetisova assured that Armavia was a company that didn’t need to engage in PR, the company had made much progress in recent years, it had opened new routes in different directions etc.
In response to our observation that Armavia had also had a lot of debts recently, as a result of which Zvartnots had even forbidden Armavia to make flights several times, unless it had repaid its debts, the press secretary of the company said the following: “So what? Those are current debts, everyone has them, the flights are made as usual, and the debts are gradually repaid. Everyone has debts, even every family has debts.”
As for what the specific conditions of selling Armavia were, the company press secretary didn’t go into detail, saying that it was also a commercial secret.
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