Dalavia
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Ceased operations | 2008 | ||||||
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Website | http://www.dalaviadmd.ru |
JSC Dalavia (Russian: ОАО «Дальавиа»), also known as Dalavia — Far Eastern Airways (Russian: Дальавиа «Дальневосточные Авиалинии») 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.[1] The Russian Government suspended its traffic rights in October 2008.[2]
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 Polikarpov Po-2, Lisunov Li-2 and Ilyushin Il-14, and later the Tupolev Tu-154 and Ilyushin Il-62 were operated.[3]
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.[4] In December 1999 the airline started operating the route Khabarovsk-Bangkok-Singapore on a once-weekly basis.[5]
The first Tu-214 was handed over to the airline at the KAPO plant in
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.[7] This year the airline was given recognition as the best domestic airline in Russia in the Wings of Russia competition.[8]
In December 2006, Dalavia signed a
On 26 January 2009,
Destinations
Fleet
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The Dalavia fleet included the following aircraft (at May 2008):
Aircraft | Total | Orders |
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Antonov An-24 | 6 | 0 |
Antonov An-26 | 4 | 0 |
Ilyushin Il-62 | 6 | 0 |
Sukhoi Superjet 100 | 0 | 6 |
Tupolev Tu-154 | 8 | 0 |
Tupolev Tu-214
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5 | 0 |
Yakovlev Yak-40 | 1 | 0 |
Total | 30 | 6 |
References
- ^ Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", Airline Reference, Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 29 January 2008, p. 185
- ^ "ATW Daily News | ATWOnline". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
- ^ ОАО "Авиакомпания "Дальавиа". Справка (in Russian). RIA Novosti. 12 September 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ "Davalia Airlines flies". Concise Aerospace. 1 April 1999. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
- ^ "New routes for Far Eastern carrier". Concise Aerospace. 12 December 1999. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
- President of Tatarstan. 22 May 2001. Archived from the originalon 11 June 2007. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
- ^ Итоги производственной деятельности ФГУП "Дальавиа" за 2004 год (in Russian). Aviaport. 3 March 2005. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
- ^ ФГУП "Дальавиа" признано победителем Премии "Крылья России - 2004" (in Russian). Aviaport. 25 March 2005. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
- ^ Sweetman, Mark (19 December 2006). "Sukhoi of Russia Wins $170 Million Order for Superjet". Moscow: Bloomberg. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
- ^ "Dalavia Airlines Announces New Khabarovsk-Anchorage Flight". The Sakhalin Times. 15 March 2007. Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
- ^ Slyusareva, Yelena (27 January 1999). Росавиация аннулировала сертификат эксплуатанта "Дальавиа" (in Russian). Moscow: Aviaport. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
- Rossiiskaya Gazeta.
- ^ Polet-Sirena[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Dalavia official website "Timetable"". Archived from the original on 7 May 2007. Retrieved 28 April 2007.
External links
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- (in Russian) Dalavia official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
- "Представительство авиакомпании "Дальавиа"" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 3 June 2002.