The “new Flybe” will start with a DHC Dash 8-400, which was previously in service with Austrian Airlines. It is the OE-LGA, which left the fleet of the Austrian carrier in December 2020.

The turboprop aircraft has since been entered on the UK register as G-CLXC on Thyme Opco. At the end of 2020, this company applied for the AOC and operating license for the restart of the former regional airline Flybe. The former OE-LGA is currently parked at Zagreb Airport.

The regional airliner bears the serial number 4014 and was delivered brand new to Tyrolean Airways in 2000. In the course of the merger of the former regional airline with the parent company, this Dash 8-400 joined AUA. The OE-LGA was flown out in December 2020.