New Delhi, Nov. 7 -- Japanese lessor AER, LLC has sent an IDERA(Irrevocable Deregistration and Export Request Authorization) request to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the Indian regulator, to deregister all three aircraft currently registered with FlyBig, the regional airline.

At the end of the September quarter, the airline has three 19-seater DHC6 (Twin Otter) aircraft in its fleet. The IDERA notice covers all three, registered VT-HIT, VT-FBC and VT-BHK. The airline has a mere 58 weekly departures approved in the Northern Winter 2025 schedule, which started on 26 October 2025. At its peak, it had approvals for 255 weekly flights in Summer 2024, though the airline never operated its full quota of approvals. The DGCA p...