FlyBig

flybig is a regional airline based in Gurugram, Haryana, India.[2] It is promoted by Gurugram-based Big Charter Private Limited. The airline began operations in December 2020 and is focused on connecting tier-2 cities within India.[3] The airline is currently operating in east and north-east India.

flybig
IATA ICAO Callsign
S9 [1] FLG KRIS
Founded2020
Commenced operations21 December 2020 (2020-12-21)
HubsGuwahati Airport
Fleet size3
Destinations20
Parent companyBig Charter Pvt Ltd
HeadquartersGurugram, Haryana, India
Key peopleCaptain Sanjay Mandavia (CMD)
Chander Bahadur (Head Financial Intelligence and Strategies)
FounderCaptain Sanjay Mandavia
Employees500
Websiteflybig.in

History

The company has received a No Objection Certificate from the Ministry of Civil Aviation and received its Air Operator's Certificate (AoC) on 14 December 2020. It began operations with a single ATR-72-500.[4] The company's focus is to serve Tier-2 cities and it aims to build a fleet of more ATR-72s and HAL manufactured Dornier 228 aircraft and eventually expand to a fleet of 20.[5]

Before the airline began any scheduled flights, it had won its first route under a government tender to serve Shillong from Delhi. The flights commenced on 21 December 2020 and to fulfil its obligations, the airline wet-leased a Dash 8 Q400 from SpiceJet.[6][7] The airline conducted proving flights on 4 December 2020[8] and operated its first scheduled flight on 3 January 2021 from Indore to Ahmedabad.[9]

Destinations

flybig operates to the following domestic destinations :

State City Airport Notes Ref.
Arunachal Pradesh Itanagar Itanagar Airport [10]
Pasighat Pasighat Airport
Tezu Tezu Airport [11]
Assam Dhubri Rupsi Airport
Dibrugarh Dibrugarh Airport [11]
Guwahati Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport Hub
Lakhimpur Lilabari Airport
Silchar Silchar Airport begins 1 June 2023 [12]
Bihar Patna Jay Prakash Narayan Airport
Manipur Imphal Imphal Airport [13]
Meghalaya Shillong Shillong Airport [14]
Tripura Agartala Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport [15]
West Bengal Kolkata Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport

Fleet

The flybig fleet consists of the following aircraft as of February 2023:[16]

A flybig ATR 72-500
flybig fleet
Aircraft In service Orders Passengers Notes
ATR 72-500 1 — 70
ATR 72-600 2 — 72
DHC-6-400 Twin Otter — 10 19 [17]
Total 3 10

See also

References
  1. "The Aviation Codes Website - Airline Codes Full Details". www.avcodes.co.uk.
  2. "Airline and Location Code Search". www.iata.org. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  3. "flyBig likely to start ops from Raja Bhoj by year-end". The Times of India. 24 October 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  4. "HAL's Dornier is all set to get new wings, flybig wings". Bangalore Mirror. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  5. "Starting an airline during COVID-19 may sound like a bad idea. But for flybig, it's a perfect flightplan". Moneycontrol.com. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  6. "Direct Flight Services Between Shillong, Delhi Launched". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  7. Rashir, Princess Giri. "Are you ready to flybig from Shillong to Delhi?". EastMojo. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  8. "Indore welcomes first Proving Flight of Fly Big Airlines, receives water cannon salute". The Free Press Journal. 4 December 2020. Retrieved 5 January 2021.
  9. Desk, India com Business (2021-01-01). "flybig to Start Operations From January 3: All You Need to Know About India's New Airline". India News, Breaking News | India.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  10. "Arunachal: For the first time Flybig flights connect Itanagar to Guwahati under UDAN scheme". India Today. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  11. "flybig Flight Schedule January 2021" (PDF). flybig. Retrieved 2020-01-02.
  12. "FlyBig to commence Guwahati-Silchar service in Jun-2023". CAPA. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  13. "flybig airline to connect Manipur with Assam, starts flight services between Imphal-Guwahati". Zee News. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  14. "First-ever direct flight from Delhi to Shillong becomes operational". newsonair.com. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  15. "Flybig to start operations from Agartala". Times of India. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  16. "flybig Airlines Fleet Details and History". flyBig India Fleet. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
  17. "India's flybig eyes green Twin Otter -400s". ch-aviation. Retrieved 2023-04-27.
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