Air France is now offering one way Yerevan to Paris flights starting at 290 Euros (some 150,000 AMD).

This is almost 50% off the ticket price the same time last year.

Return service tickets at other travel agencies can be obtained at prices starting at almost 160,000.

Shoushanna Shahinyan, an agent at Yerevan’s Trichk Travel says that Air France is definitely promoting the route and that the price was good.

In the summer, the travel agency was selling tickets for the Yerevan-Paris route at 500-600 Euros.

Employees at some travel agencies seemed unaware that Air France had dropped prices. An agent at Go Travel said that prices hadn’t dropped and that they were selling tickets for 236,000 AMD. “What they told you was incorrect somehow. Perhaps the price via Kiev has dropped. Non-stop flights can’t be sold at that price,” the agent said.

This reporter was unable to get in touch by phone with Air France to ask whether the price drop had anything to do with recent events. No one at Air France was answering for the past two days.