MUMBAI, India, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Jet Airways, India's premier international airline, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that the companies have signed a strategic ten-year business transformation and information technology (IT) services agreement.

Republic Airlines, a subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings, has signed an agreement with Midwest Airlines to provide 12 Embraer E170 jets operating as Midwest Connect flights with initial service beginning on October 1, 2008.

Jet Airways has announced that it will launch new daily, direct services between Mumbai, India and Hong Kong, effective April 14, 2008. With the introduction of this flight Jet Airways will now fly to 60 destinations.

Finnair has announced that it has taken the delivery of the 200th aircraft in the history of its fleet at Helsinki airport, which is an Embraer 190 with registration OH-LKM.

Paramount Airways has announced that it does not intend to merge with any other airline in India after a few low-cost airlines approached the Madurai-based company to take over the company, reported the Press Trust of India.