Naida Zohrapyan: I Will Probably Go to a Candle Maker Today

Former MP Naida Zohrapyan writes on her Facebook page: "The prices for tickets on the Yerevan-Paris-Yerevan flight with Air France are rising at a superhuman pace. With the same enthusiasm, the chaos of this airline, which is considered one of the best carriers, is also increasing.

In the past year, there has not been a single flight from Yerevan to Paris that my luggage returned home with me. The last time I traveled directly from Paris to Yerevan, my suitcase went from Paris to New York. Yes, it went directly to New York.

Of course, I wouldn’t have minded being in my suitcase’s place and spending six days in New York at Air France’s expense, like my lucky suitcase, but after flying around the United States for six days, my suitcase returned to Paris, spent a couple of days at Charles de Gaulle Airport, and, battered but happy to have seen New York, eventually reached me. As you may have guessed, I arrived in Yerevan on a direct flight from Paris yesterday, and as you might surmise again, my suitcase is missing once more.

I hope this time my suitcase hasn’t gone to Burkina Faso or Tanzania from Paris. In any case, Air France hasn’t made any unnecessary fuss and has not even informed its 'gold' passenger about what 'tour' they have arranged for my suitcase.

Of course, I do not rule out the 'paperwork' hypothesis, and to break this sacral curse that has become mandatory between Air France and me, I will probably go to a candle maker today.

Simply to inform those who detest transit—of which I am one—that for one ticket, I paid Air France 418,000 drams, which is approximately 1000 euros, and according to the now-constant custom, my struggles to find my own suitcase in airports around the world have begun.

As the classics would say, Air France, 'get your act together.'