Fly91 Resumes Daily Sindhudurg Flights to Navi Mumbai Monday

Fly91 will resume flights between Chipi airport in Sindhudurg and Navi Mumbai on Monday, November 16, 2026, restoring daily scheduled service to Maharashtra's southern Konkan coast. Sindhudurg Guardian Minister Nitesh Rane announced the restart on Saturday, November 14. The service will operate seven days a week.

Chipi airport, near Vengurla, was developed through the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation to open up a region better known for long road and rail journeys from Mumbai. Earlier flights on the route were halted because of technical difficulties, which left the airport without regular scheduled service. The restart puts a scheduled flight back on a coast that travelers usually reach after hours on the highway.

The route survives on public support, and the state isn't hiding it. Maharashtra's Cabinet has approved viability gap funding for the service, the subsidy model India uses to keep thin regional routes flying when ticket revenue alone won't cover the operation. That funding is the difference between a daily flight and another grounded regional airport.

Rane said he's also been working on the infrastructure around the airport, including approach roads, power supply and night-landing facilities, which have been sticking points for reliable operations. Those details decide whether a resumed route stays resumed: a flight that can't land after dark or reach a working road doesn't hold a schedule for long.

The timing is commercial as well as civic. Winter is peak season for Malvan, Tarkarli and the Sindhudurg Fort, and Rane tied the restored flights to the area's tourism ambitions, pointing to proposed Taj hotel projects at Velaghar near Vengurla and at Devgad. Both would benefit from a quick connection to the Mumbai region instead of a full day on the road.

The choice of Navi Mumbai as the other end matters, too. The city's new international airport gives Konkan-bound travelers an alternative to Mumbai's congested main airport, and it shortens the ground leg at the city end of the trip.

For travelers, the practical gain is a same-day coast trip. The Konkan run from Mumbai by road or rail eats most of a day in each direction, so a daily flight turns a long weekend in Malvan or Tarkarli into a trip that doesn't spend two of its days in transit. That arithmetic is what the hotels are counting on, and it's why a subsidized turboprop route carries weight beyond its seat count.

Fares and exact timings hadn't been published when the restart was announced, so travelers should check Fly91 directly before building a trip around the flight. The service itself is dated and confirmed: daily, starting Monday, November 16.