The first flight of the regular direct connection between the Armenian capital Yerevan and the capital Gaules Lyon was inaugurated Thursday, April 19 in the morning. This premiere of the airline company Armenia AirCompany, which thus establishes a regular Yerevan-Lyon-Yerevan connection with two weekly flights, should make the Rhône-Alpes region count more than 100,000 Armenians with many Armenian communities established in Lyon. ,
Valencia or Vienna. Asked by the newspaper “Lyon Mag”, the mayor of Lyon, Georges Képénékian “welcomes this new link that will promote the two-way exchange between Lyon and Yerevan”. A cooperation partnership between Lyon and Yerevan exists since 1992, this new airline will revive these exchanges.