JSC Dalavia (russian: ОАО «Дальавиа»), also known as Dalavia — Far Eastern Airways (russian: Дальавиа «Дальневосточные Авиалинии») was an

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based in Khabarovsk,

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. It operated scheduled and charter flights within Russia, and international flights to

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. Its main base was

Khabarovsk Novy Airport Khabarovsk Novy Airport (russian: Аэропорт Хабаровск) is an airport located at the eastern part of Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. Khabarovsk Novy Airport was the main hub for the Russian airline Dalavia, which was shut do ...

.Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", ''Airline Reference'', Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 29 January 2008, p. 185 The Russian Government suspended its traffic rights in October 2008.

History

Khabarovsk's airport received its first concrete runway in August 1953, and in the same year Khabarovsk Aviation Enterprise (russian: Хабаровское авиационное предприятие) was established as part of Aeroflot. Flights were initially operated by aircraft including the

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and

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, and later the

Tupolev Tu-154 The Tupolev Tu-154 (russian: Tyполев Ту-154; NATO reporting name: "Careless") is a three-engined, medium-range, narrow-body airliner designed in the mid-1960s and manufactured by Tupolev. A workhorse of Soviet and (subsequently) Russian ...

and Ilyushin Il-62 were operated. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the resultant breakup of Aeroflot, Khabarovsk Aviation Enterprise continued to operate under Aeroflot

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and in Aeroflot livery, in return for a licensing fee. On 29 March 1999, the airline began operations to

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from Khabarovsk under its own codes, and with the new name of Dalavia. In December 1999 the airline started operating the route Khabarovsk-

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on a once-weekly basis. The first Tu-214 was handed over to the airline at the KAPO plant in

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on 22 May 2001, in a ceremony presided over by Mintimer Shaimiyev, the

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Dalavia carried 621,405 passenger in 2004, an increase of 9.1% over the previous year. Of this, some 135,792 passengers were carried on the airline's international route network. This year the airline was given recognition as the best domestic airline in Russia in the ''Wings of Russia'' competition. In December 2006, Dalavia signed a

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170 million deal with Sukhoi Civil Aircraft for the supply of six

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s, with options on an additional four airframes. From June 2007, the airline was to offer a weekly flight with Tupolev Tu-214 equipment from Anchorage,

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, to

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky ( rus, Петропавловск-Камчатский, a=Петропавловск-Камчатский.ogg, p=pʲɪtrɐˈpavləfsk kɐmˈtɕatskʲɪj) is a city and the administrative, industrial, scientific, and cultu ...

with a flight continuation to Khabarovsk. On 26 January 2009, Rosaviatsiya cancelled the

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of Dalavia. On 9 June 2009, the Arbitration Court of Khabarovsk Krai declared Dalavia bankrupt with debts almost twice the amount of its assets. Its accounts payables totalled some 1.7 billion

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and wages for employees exceeded 350 million roubles. According to

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, after the bankruptcy Dalavia was transferred to Russian Technologies when it was planned for Dalavia to enter the structure of Rosavia.

Destinations

Fleet

The Dalavia fleet included the following aircraft (at May 2008):

References

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* * {{Airlines of Russia Former Aeroflot divisions Airlines established in 1953 Airlines disestablished in 2008 Companies based in Khabarovsk Krai Defunct airlines of Russia