The airline received a
No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the
Ministry of Civil Aviation and received its
Air Operator's Certificate (AoC) on 14 December 2020, both necessary for starting commercial operations. It began operations with a single
ATR-72-500. The company's focus is to serve Tier-2 cities and it aims to build a fleet of more
ATR-72s and Viking/ DHC Twin Otters, thus eventually expand to a fleet of 20 aircraft. Before the airline began scheduled flights, it got 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
DHC-8 Q400 aircraft from
SpiceJet. The airline conducted proving flights on 4 December 2020, and operated its first scheduled flight on 3 January 2021 from
Indore to
Ahmedabad. As of March 2024, it has
11 destinations with a fleet of three aircraft covering 3 states. In November 2023, FlyBig Airlines temporarily ceased operations in Arunachal Pradesh, citing supply chain challenges as the primary reason. In November 2025, it was reported that the Indian civil aviation authority had received an IDERA (Irrevocable Deregistration and Export Request Authorization) from AER Leasing Corp, the Japanese aircraft leasing company, which is the lessor of flybig's three Indian-registered
DHC-6-400 Twin Otters. The aircraft have not performed any flights since October 2025 and are currently parked at
Bhopal Airport. An IDERA request is a legal document which enables an aircraft lessor to have its aircraft deregistered and exported from a country if an airline defaults on lease payments. On 8 December, it was then reported that
Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE Capital) had won a $1.1 million award from flybig due to the airline's failure to meet lease agreement obligations in relation to previously leased
ATR 72 aircraft. While flybig has not performed any flights since the aircraft were grounded in October, the company formally ceased operations on 13 December 2025, when its
air operator's certificate (AOC) issued by India's
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