According to JetBlue Airways, the agreement covers as many as 130 A320 aircraft at ATS's maintenance facility in Everett, Washington. Additional Ka-band installations will be accomplished at JetBlue's LiveTV subsidiary in Orlando. The technology was designed by LiveTV, which will be conducting training and technical support to ATS to ensure a quality installation. All Airbus A320 installations are expected to be completed by the end of 2014.

Jeff Martin, senior vice president of operations for JetBlue, said, "Jointly, we will aggressively modify the majority of our A320 fleet with the Fly-Fi solution while we continue to work with LiveTV to add Ka broadband onboard connectivity to the remainder of our aircraft."

Fly-Fi, JetBlue's brand for wireless inflight Internet, will reportedly use satellite-based connectivity, while most other carriers use ground-based systems. Ka-band satellites are better suited to support high-throughput capacity that cannot be met by more congested Ku-band frequencies. Ka-band also allows smaller end-user antennas, said JetBlue Airways.