Armenia's Taron-Avia ceases operations

Armenia's civil aviation regulator has cancelled the air operator's certificate of local carrier Taron-Avia. The country's civil aviation committee says it carried out inspections on the operator and "identified defects". Taron-Avia's operating certificate was subsequently suspended for 6 months, it adds, to give the airline time to correct the problems. "But the company has made a decision to cease operating," says the regulator and, as a result, the committee has "terminated" its certificate. Taron-Avia's schedule indicates that it had been serving Moscow Vnukovo from the Armenian capital Yerevan, as well as Moscow Domodedovo, Samara and Krasnodar from Gyumri. It was primarily operating Boeing 737-500s. Taron-Avia was founded in 2007 and intended to serve demand for low-cost short-haul connections in the region. <br/>