FLYi, Inc. , parent of
low-fare airline Independence Air, announced today that it has
successfully completed its financial restructuring, providing the company
with greater financial flexibility to execute its low-fare business plan.
The restructuring includes agreements with a majority of the company’s
aircraft creditors to reschedule aircraft rent payments and reduce the
total number of 50-seat CRJ aircraft in the company’s fleet, while
continuing to add more 132- seat Airbus A319 aircraft. “Today’s announcement represents an important step forward in building a
much stronger future for Independence Air,” said Kerry Skeen, Chairman and
CEO. “Working together with our creditors, we have put in place a capital
structure that greatly enhances our liquidity as we continue to move
forward with our low-fare strategy. We sincerely appreciate the commitment
and support of our lessors and lenders who have demonstrated their
confidence in our business plan with these agreements.”

Highlights of the restructuring include:

—Consensual lease terminations on 24 CRJ aircraft, almost all of which
will be returned during the first and second quarters of 2005. Together
with previously announced changes these lease terminations will result in
the company operating a fleet of 58 CRJ aircraft. Many of the operational
changes resulting from this fleet reduction are already reflected in the
company’s February and March service schedule. These lease terminations
will reduce the company’s payments during the period from January 2005
through February 2007 by $81 million.

—Deferral of $70 million in CRJ rent payments that would have been due
between January 2005 and February 2007. These deferred payments will now
be repaid on a monthly basis beginning in May 2006.

—Lease termination on 21 of the company’s 30 J-41 turboprop aircraft.
These aircraft were previously retired from the company’s operating fleet
and are not currently used in Independence Air operations. These lease
terminations will reduce the company’s net payments during the period from
January 2005 through February 2007 by $13.5 million.

—FLYi has also finalized and drawn down its previously announced
five-year $16 million secured term loan with GE Commercial Aviation
Services, Inc. and certain of its affiliates (“GECAS”).

—In exchange for concessions from aircraft financing parties, the company
agreed to issue approximately 8.3 million shares of FLYi stock, some of
which are issuable under convertible non-interest bearing notes, and
approximately $6.1 million in unsecured notes.

—As previously announced, the company sold four CRJs in December 2004 for
approximately $50 million. In order to complete this transaction, the
company applied approximately $30 million of deposits with Bombardier to
pay down an interim loan on two of the aircraft in order to release liens
prior to the sale of these aircraft.

As a result of concluding its restructuring efforts, on February 18, 2005
the company paid the trustee the interest owing under its 6% Convertible
Notes due 2034, and the note trustee has commenced the process of paying
this interest over to the noteholders.

The company will provide additional details about its restructuring
through filings on Form 8-K with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

Mr. Skeen continued, “This financial restructuring, together with the many
other cost reduction and revenue enhancing initiatives that we are
undertaking, strengthens our company as we continue to offer the benefits
of low-fare service to our growing base of over three million customers.
We are especially excited to roll out transcontinental service to Las
Vegas and five major West Coast cities using our new and growing fleet of
Airbus A319 aircraft. In the eight months we’ve been operating as an
independent, low-fare carrier, Washington Dulles has become the largest
low-fare hub in America in terms of total departures and we remain
encouraged by the strong customer response to our Florida service.” He
added, “Above all, we are so proud of each of our employees, who continue
to receive rave reviews from FLYi customers for providing the highest
level of enthusiastic service every day.”

The company currently operates six Airbus aircraft and will take delivery
of six more in the coming months for a total of 12 A319s scheduled for
service by late May. Sixteen additional A319s are on order for deliveries
in 2006 and beyond—for a total of 28. Independence Air currently
operates non-stop Airbus service between Washington Dulles and four
destinations (Orlando, Tampa, West Palm Beach, and Fort Myers) and will
initiate new Airbus service from Washington to six additional destinations
between March 1st and May 1st (Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Seattle and San Jose). Independence Air currently offers non-stop
low-fare service to a total of 40 destinations.

The company will hold a webcast and conference call this morning (February
22, 2005) at 11:00 am Eastern time to discuss its restructuring and recent
changes to its business plan, including; the growing reliance on Airbus
A319 aircraft which allow it to provide transcontinental service and the
use of third party distribution systems Travelocity, Orbitz, Sabre,
Worldspan and Galileo/Apollo—which allow a broader spectrum of
customers to access Independence Air flights, including business travelers
looking for new alternatives to the fares and service offered by legacy
carriers.
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