But he now has the uneasy feeling of entering entirely unfamiliar ground, even before leaving Dubai, as he boards the Armavia flight to Yerevan. It is presently the only airline that has a direct flight, and he opts for the unknown airline against the more complicated routes via Europe on airlines that he knows. He is the only one in First Class, which has two rows of four seats each. The aircraft is old and run down, the chairs squeak and shift on the floor bolts, there is rust on the armrests and tears in the dirty carpet. Although the First Class cabin is empty, economy class is full, and he guesses that the airline is doing well on this route, and so does not understand this degree of neglect. The flight attendants look bored and unmotivated. What Manoj does not know is that Armavia is controlled by yet another state-supported oligarch, who is running the company into the ground. This syndrome, which baffles outsiders when they encounter it, and disgusts locals, who leave the country in droves, somehow survives.
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