Airlines & Routes

Ultra Electronics, an internationally successful defence, security, transport and energy company, has acquired ICE Corporation (“ICE”) based in Manhattan, Kansas for an initial cash consideration of $8.6m. Ultra has acquired ICE from private investors, which includes the original founder. All of the management team will stay with the business. ICE designs, develops, manufactures and supports

JorAMCo signed a contract with Jazeera Airways to provide the Kuwait-based low-cost carrier with C-check for three A320s aircraft of its fleet that are due for maintenance services this year. Two of these aircraft are redelivery checks leased to TAP Airlines including other maintenance services to be provided by JorAMCo such as: C5 tasks, cabin

Air Serbia, the national airline of Serbia, reported positive progress after the five months since its launch in October 2013, outlining network and fleet growth and the creation of new jobs in Serbia. With a focus on comfort, Air Serbia leased eight modern Airbus A319 and two Airbus A320 aircraft to replace the ageing fleet

GE Capital Aviation Services announced delivery of a new leased Airbus A320 aircraft to Aigle Azur to expand the carrier’s fleet. The aircraft comes from GECAS’ existing order book with Airbus.

ANA selected 40 Boeing widebody airplanes for its strategic fleet renewal, including 20 777-9X (powered by GE9X engines), 6 777-300ER (powered by GE90-115B engines) and 14 787-9 airplanes. The agreement with the Japanese airline is valued at approximately $13bn at list prices, the combined engine orders are valued at $2bn list price. ANA also selected

Gogo released that its business aviation group, Aircell, has unveiled the ST 4300 – a new in-flight communications system for business aircraft. The ST 4300 combines voice, narrowband data and cockpit data link services into a single unit. Available with one, two or three Iridium voice/narrowband data channels, plus one dedicated Iridium data channel, the