Can Fly91’s flightpath for India’s smallest airline defy the doomy past?

When Goa-based regional airline Fly91 announced the appointment of its first COO and a new CFO late last month, there was a feeling among aviation experts that the six-plane player may be overextending itself.After all, why would one need to bring in a COO, Krishnan Balakrishnan, a former deputy CEO of Jazeera Airways, for an airline that has not even crossed the 30-aircraft mark? It’s a different discussion that Jazeera itself is a 22-aircraft airline — albeit one operating larger Airbus A320-family jets.