Civil Aviation Negotiated with Hungarian Wizz Air and Then Remembered 'Hostility'

The head of Armenia's Civil Aviation, Tatevik Revazyan, has declared several times in recent months that active negotiations are ongoing with the Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air to launch flights from Armenia. This airline already operates flights from Georgia, allowing many of our compatriots to take advantage of cheaper travel from that country.

At first glance, bringing Wizz Air to Armenia seems like an important and 'nationally significant' initiative, if not for one crucial but. Wizz Air is a Hungarian low-cost airline, and official Yerevan has severed diplomatic relations with Budapest due to the government's decision to hand over Azerbaijani Ramil Safarov to Baku for cash in oil dollars. This means that the airline belongs to a 'hostile' state with which Yerevan has no official relationship.

According to 24News sources, the Civil Aviation department did not even recall this crucial factor that complicates official negotiations with the Hungarian company. Tatevik Revazyan was informed of this late, after negotiations had already begun, placing the department in a peculiar dilemma: to continue negotiations with a company of Hungarian origin or to terminate them, especially since, according to our sources, Hungary itself is not particularly enthusiastic about such negotiations with official Yerevan, though they did not initiate these talks themselves.

The second option remains to quietly halt this process and bury it in oblivion as if no negotiations with the Hungarians had ever taken place. According to 24News information, after considerable deliberation, Revazyan and her team have settled on this latter course of action.