Fly91

Just Udo Aviation Private Limited, doing business as Fly91 (stylised as FLY91), is an Indian low-cost regional airline headquartered in Ribandar, Goa, India. It operates from its base at Manohar International Airport in Mopa, North Goa district, with a fleet of three ATR-72 aircraft, to tier-2 and 3 cities of India. It was founded in January 2023 by former aviation veterans involved in Kingfisher Airlines, Harsha Raghavan and Manoj Chacko. It began commercial operations from 18 March 2024 to Sindhudurg, Bangalore and Hyderabad from its base at Goa with flights to Lakshadweep, Jalgaon and other regional cities from April 2024 onwards.

==History== The airline was founded on 9 January 2023 by former aviation veterans, Harsha Raghavan, who was the former head of Fairfax India, and Manoj Chacko, who was the former vice-executive of Mumbai-based WNS Global Services. They were also a part of Kingfisher Airlines that ceased operations in October 2012 due to bankruptcy. Before announcing the formation of the airline, on 8 December 2021, Harsha Raghavan, the company's as well as the current founder and chairman of the airline, who also created Convergent Finance LLP in 2018, in collaboration with Manoj Chacko's WNS Global Services, incorporated the companies to form 'Just Udo Aviation Private Limited'. They set up its headquarters at Ribandar near the capital of Goa, Panaji, and its registered office in Mumbai. It made its base at Manohar International Airport at Mopa in North Goa district, to promote and facilitate tourism in the state. The airline applied to the Ministry of Civil Aviation for the No Objection Certificate (NOC) to launch scheduled domestic services in the same month. The Ministry of Civil Aviation granted the NOC to the airline in April 2023. The airline is headed with an initial investment. In June 2023, the airline revealed its logo and livery, based on the scenic and natural environment of Goa, and planned to begin operations by the end of 2023. On 26 July 2023, the airline, along with numerous others, received slots from the Ministry of Civil Aviation to begin flights under the government's UDAN Scheme to regional destinations, like Jalgaon, Kolhapur, Solapur, Nanded, Sindhudurg, Lakshadweep and bigger cities like Hyderabad, Pune and Bengaluru. The airline received its first aircraft, an ATR-72, on 30 January 2024. The second aircraft was delivered on 28 February 2024. The airline began proving flights from its base at Manohar International Airport to Bengaluru with its aircraft on 2 March 2024 to get the Air Operator's Certificate (AOC), which is necessary for an airline to begin commercial operations. It adopted the IATA code "IC", which was the code for Indian Airlines that closed down in 2011. On 6 March 2024, the AOC was granted to it by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). On 12 March 2024, after the first inaugural flight service with passengers from Goa to Lakshadweep was operated by the airline, it announced that it will begin regular flights from its base at Manohar International Airport, Goa and Sindhudurg to Bengaluru and Hyderabad from 18 March 2024. Hence, it began operations on the routes on 18 March, and added Lakshadweep and Jalgaon to its destinations from 18 April 2024.