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Category: Airplane
Getting TO/AROUND: If you intend to depart Armenia from the Zvartnots (Yerevan) international airport, save 10.000 drams (20$) per departing passanger as this extra airport tax is never included into your ticket price. Although not mentioned anywhere at the airport, first go to the exchange booth (BTW, very bad rates) and pay this tax. You will get a receipt that will enable you to check in. Of course you will get a special extra service for this tax, e.g. a very slow check-in procedure, way too many bored employees standing or walking around the airport, I was almost proclaimed a terrorist just becuse the metal detector always detected a zip of my side trousers pocket, boarding passes were indeed checked more times than necessary and last but not least, due to very slow procedure the plane departure was delayed by almost an hour and the staff put my (and probaly half of other passangers' ) luggage into a wrong plane.
In 2004 probably the cheapest airline flying directly to/from western/central Europe (and thus avoiding a need for a former USSR countries' transit visas) was ČSA (Czech airlines) from Prague, costing "only" 350€. Book the flight as early as possible as the airline seems to be popular among numerous Armenian diaspora in North America.
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on Aug 22, 2004
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