AIR ATLANTA EUROPE (AAE), an Iceland owned company, is now an official British airline following the issue of an Air Operator's Certificate and an Operating Licence by the UK CAA. These, together with route licences approved by the Department for Transport, will allow it to start commercial operations in its own name. AAE is based at Gatwick and will operate flights from Gatwick, Manchester and Glasgow. It has three Boeing 767-200 aircraft with three Boeing 747-200s added to the UK register later this summer. AAE is primarily a wet-lease operator supplying other airlines with extra capacity. It has contracts with Excel Airways and Virgin Atlantic and will also operate charter flights under its own flight numbers, prefix EUK, during the summer. Like its parent company AAE will not sell tickets direct to passengers and also, at this time, has no aircraft in its livery. The Air Atlanta Icelandic group, created in 1986, operates worldwide with a fleet of 27 Boeing 747, 757 and 767 aircraft. http://www.airatlanta.com