Syunik Airport
Syunik Airport allows passengers to travel between Kapan and Yerevan in just 40 minutes,[1] in sharp contrast to the five hour drive.The airport originally started as an airstrip in the 1940s, receiving occasional flights operated by Soviet Antonov 2 aircraft.In the following months, slight modifications to the runway and the installation of radio equipment were made, allowing the airfield to be operated with higher safety standards.Operations at Kapan Airport were quite challenging, as the published approach was for aircraft to fly into the nearby Voghji river valley, descend under the clouds and perform a left turn to line up on the runway.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s and the subsequent Nagorno-Karabakh War, Kapan Airport fell into disrepair.