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Donbassaero

Ukrainian airline

Donbassaero (Ukrainian: Донбасаеро, Russian: Донбассаэро) was an airline with its head office on the Donetsk International Airport premises in Donetsk, Ukraine. It operated domestic and international scheduled services. Its main bases were Donetsk International Airport and Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv.2 It ceased to exist in 2013.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2003Founded1
  • HeadquartersDonetsk1
Donbassaero A320 UR-DAA MUC
Photo: Juergen Lehle, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons4

Donbassaero (Ukrainian: Донбасаеро, Russian: Донбассаэро) was an airline with its head office on the Donetsk International Airport premises in Donetsk, Ukraine. It operated domestic and international scheduled services. Its main bases were Donetsk International Airport and Boryspil International Airport in Kyiv. The main shareholder of the company was PrivatBank, controlled by Ihor Kolomoyskyi.2

The story

The airline was founded in 1993 as Donetsk State Airline, then re-organized and re-branded as Donbassaero in 2003. Their website was launched in July 2005 and their online booking system started in November of the same year.

Since 25 March 2012, as a result of the Anti-monopoly committee of Ukraine's decision to allow the consolidation of the Ukrainian Aviation Group's physical and operational assets, Donbassaero no longer operated flights with its own code, but rather on behalf of its parent company Aerosvit.

The airline filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations on 14 January 2013.

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Destinations

Donbassaero served the following scheduled destinations (as of January 2013):

Armenia

Yerevan - Zvartnots International Airport

Azerbaijan

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Baku - Heydar Aliyev International Airport

Cyprus

Larnaca - Larnaca International Airport

Georgia

Tbilisi - Tbilisi International Airport

Greece

Athens - Athens International Airport

Lithuania

Vilnius - Vilnius International Airport

Russia

Moscow - Domodedovo International Airport.

Sweden

Stockholm - Stockholm International Airport

Syria

Aleppo - Aleppo International Airport

Turkey

Istanbul - Atatürk International Airport

United Arab Emirates

Dubai - Dubai International Airport

Ukraine

Donetsk - Sergey Prokofiev International Airport hub

Kharkiv - Kharkiv International Airport

Kyiv - Boryspil International Airport hub

Odesa - Odesa International Airport

Fleet

As of December 2012, the Donbassaero fleet included the following aircraft:

From Wikipedia’s article on Donbassaero, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

  1. Jan 14, 2013Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 2003Founded Founded1

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