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Viewing cable 08VLADIVOSTOK106, AIRLINES IN RUSSIAN FAR EAST SKIDDING TO A STOP

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08VLADIVOSTOK106 2008-09-26 06:59 2011-08-24 01:00 UNCLASSIFIED Consulate Vladivostok
VZCZCXRO2211
RR RUEHCHI RUEHFK RUEHHM RUEHKSO RUEHNAG RUEHPB
DE RUEHVKA #0106 2700659
ZNR UUUUU ZZH ZUI RUEWMCE1207 2700655
R 260659Z SEP 08 ZDK
FM AMCONSUL VLADIVOSTOK
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC
INFO EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
RUEHZU/ASIAN PACIFIC ECONOMIC COOPERATION COLLECTIVE
RUEHVK/AMCONSUL VLADIVOSTOK
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 VLADIVOSTOK 000106 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EAIR PGOV ECON RS
SUBJECT: AIRLINES IN RUSSIAN FAR EAST SKIDDING TO A STOP 
 
VLADIVOSTO 00000106  001.3 OF 002 
 
 
1.  Summary.  The airline industry in the Far East continues its 
downward trajectory.  Dalavia has become the latest in a series 
of bankruptcies in the industry.  Vladivostok Avia remains 
relatively strong, but may become a tempting takeover target. 
Ticket prices will remain prohibitively expensive as competition 
 
 
 
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dwindles and fuel prices remain high. 
 
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Dalavia in Trouble 
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2.  Khabarovsk-based air carrier Dalavia is the latest airline 
serving the Russian Far East to file for bankruptcy, following 
Magadan Air, Krasnoyarsk Air, and Domodedovo.  Things came to a 
head for long-troubled Dalavia when airports in several cities, 
including in its home base Khabarovsk, began refusing to service 
its fleet after the company defaulted on its 
multi-million-dollar fuel debt to the airports.  As a result, in 
September the company was forced to cancel all of its domestic 
and international flights, and has ceased selling tickets.  In 
September, Khabarovsk airport refused to grant landing rights to 
in-flight Dalavia planes which then had to be diverted to other 
airports. 
 
3.  Dalavia General Director Valeriy Chichilimov addressed the 
 
 
 
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media on Sep 22, blaming the company's troubles on its aging 
fleet, malfunctioning engines on its new Tupolev-214s, 
"unprecedented fuel prices," and competitors who "operate 
fuel-efficient US- and Western-made aircraft."  Chichilimov also 
confirmed that authorities have placed liens on the company's 
accounts to pay fuel debts to Khabarovsk airport.  Not 
surprisingly, the company is also facing legal problems.  The 
regional Prosecutors Office launched a criminal investigation 
against Dalavia management on suspicion of "illegal 
entrepreneurship," misuse of funds, and illegal withholding of 
wages.  Dalavia is fully government-owned and operated flights 
domestically and to Japan, South Korea, and China.  Its fleet of 
27 Tupolevs and Antonovs carried 694,000 passengers in 2007. 
 
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In Steps Vladavia 
----------------- 
 
4.  In early September, the government announced plans to merge 
Dalavia into Vladivostok-based Vladavia, which has begun 
 
 
 
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carrying ticketed Dalavia passengers and will pick up all of 
DalAvia's international and domestic routes.  As part of the 
plan, Vladavia will have access to Dalavia funds remaining from 
past ticket sales.  Vladavia Deputy Director Igor Bagelfer will 
reportedly take over as Dalavia's General Director.  Management 
at Vladavia has so far refrained from commenting on the merger, 
saying that they "have not received any official documentation 
regarding the matter."  Consulate FSN staff was unable to 
illicit comment from our contact at Dalavia. 
 
5.  Vladavia operates 70 flights a week to domestic and Pacific 
Rim countries and is considered the healthiest of the Russian 
Far East's regional carriers.  It is 51 percent 
government-owned.  The company carried 776,000 passengers in 
2007, and began seasonal service from Kamchatka to Anchorage, 
Alaska, in July this year.  It has 30 airplanes in its fleet, 
including the new fuel-efficient long-range TU-204-300. 
 
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Past Maneuvering Did Little to Improve Situation 
 
 
 
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--------------------------------------------- --- 
 
6.  In 2006 Aeroflot had its own plans for the Russian Far East, 
proposing a consolidation of all Far East carriers into one 
regional airline to be called AEROFLOT-VOSTOK, with Aeroflot 
holding 70 percent of the new airline's shares.  The move had 
been approved by federal regulators, and Dalavia agreed to the 
plan.  Vladavia held out against the proposal, and Vladavia's 
main shareholder, the federal government, let the plan lapse. 
Then-President Putin chose not to issue a presidential decree 
that could have forced the merger. 
 
7.  Despite heavy government involvement and even ownership, 
Vladavia and Dalavia had been subject to government 
intervention.  In an effort to lower prices and cut monopoly 
powers of airlines owning their own hub airports, the federal 
government forced Dalavia in 2007 and Vladavia in early 2008 to 
spin off their airport operations from their passenger service 
companies.  The plan did not result in more competition and 
lower prices as hoped -- competition did not increase in 
 
 
 
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Khabarovsk, and Vladavia still charges more for its two-hour 
hops to Seoul and Niigata than U.S. carriers charge for most 
trans-Pacific flights. 
 
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Comment 
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VLADIVOSTO 00000106  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
 
8.  If the Kremlin were to again get involved in the 
deteriorating situation in the Russian Far East's aviation 
industry, it would likely not be to prop up ailing companies, 
but to take over the most healthy.  If Vladavia were to remain 
solvent, it could end up as a target for Rostehnologii, the 
conglomerate of over 200 firms led by close Putin associate 
Sergey Chemezov.  The holding company has reportedly been 
looking for entry into the airline industry.  Whatever the fate 
of Vladavia, one of the main problems hindering development in 
the East is the high cost of transportation, and with the string 
of recent airline bankruptcies, the situation will not improve 
soon. 
ARMBRUSTER