JSC Dalavia (), also known as Dalavia — Far Eastern Airways () was an airline based in Khabarovsk, Russia. It operated scheduled and charter flights within Russia, and international flights to Asia. Its main base was Khabarovsk Novy Airport.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 () was established as part of Aeroflot. Flights were initially operated by aircraft including the Polikarpov Po-2, Lisunov Li-2 and Ilyushin Il-14, and later the Tupolev Tu-154 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 codes and in Aeroflot livery, in return for a licensing fee. On 29 March 1999, the airline began operations to Seoul in South Korea from Khabarovsk under its own codes, and with the new name of Dalavia. In December 1999 the airline started operating the route Khabarovsk-Bangkok-Singapore on a once-weekly basis.
The first Tu-214 was handed over to the airline at the KAPO plant in Kazan on 22 May 2001, in a ceremony presided over by Mintimer Shaimiyev, the President of Tatarstan.
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 US$170 million deal with Sukhoi Civil Aircraft for the supply of six Sukhoi Superjet 100s, 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, Alaska, to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky with a flight continuation to Khabarovsk.
On 26 January 2009, Rosaviatsiya cancelled the air operator's certificate 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 rubles and wages for employees exceeded 350 million roubles. According to presidential decree, after the bankruptcy Dalavia was transferred to Russian Technologies when it was planned for Dalavia to enter the structure of Rosavia.
Destinations Dalavia operated scheduled and chartered flights to the following (as of December 2008): Country City Airport Notes Domestic Russia Anadyr Ugolny Airport Barnaul Barnaul Airport Blagoveschensk Ignatyevo Airport Chelyabinsk Chelyabinsk Balandino Airport Chita Kadala Airport Irkutsk Irkutsk Airport Kazan Kazan International Airport Khabarovsk Khabarovsk Novy Airport Hub Komsomolsk-on-Amur Komsomolsk-on-Amur Airport Krasnodar Krasnodar International Airport Krasnoyarsk Yemelyanovo Airport Magadan Sokol Airport Moscow Domodedovo International Airport Novokuznetsk Spichenkovo Airport Novosibirsk Tolmachevo Airport Okha Okha Airport Okhotsk Okhotsk Airport Omsk Tsentralny Airport Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Airport Rostov-on-Don Rostov-on-Don Airport Saint Petersburg Pulkovo Airport Samara Kurumoch International Airport Shakhtersk Shakhtyorsk Airport Sochi Sochi International Airport Vladivostok Vladivostok International Airport Yekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport Ulan-Ude Ulan-Ude Airport Tymovskoye Zonalnoye Airport East Asia Japan Aomori Aomori Airport Niigata Niigata Airport People's Republic of China Beijing Beijing Capital International Airport Dalian Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport Guangzhou Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport Harbin Harbin Taiping International Airport Qingdao Qingdao Liuting International Airport Charter South Korea Seoul Incheon International Airport South-East Asia Thailand Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport Charter Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City Tan Son Nhat International Airport Occasionally Central Asia Azerbaijan Baku Heydar Aliyev International Airport Uzbekistan Tashkent Tashkent International Airport Middle East Israel Tel Aviv Ben Gurion International Airport Charter Pacific Northern Mariana Islands Saipan Saipan International Airport Charter North America United States Anchorage Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport Europe Ukraine Kyiv Kyiv International Airport
Fleet
The Dalavia fleet included the following aircraft (at May 2008): + Dalavia FleetAircraftTotalOrdersAntonov An-2460Antonov An-2640Ilyushin Il-6260Sukhoi Superjet 10006 Tupolev Tu-15480 Tupolev Tu-21450 Yakovlev Yak-4010Total306
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