Dubai: Emirates Executive, the private jet division of Emirates airline, the world’s largest airline by international passenger numbers, will consider next year increasing its fleet beyond the single Airbus A319 it currently operates.
“Emirates Executive will soon start considering what types of aircraft and how many it will need to respond to the businesses growth,” said Adnan Kazim, Emirates’ Divisional Senior Vice-President, Planning, Aeropolitical and Industry Affairs, in an interview in Dubai.
He said the average flight by Emirates Executive is six to seven hours and that its services are booked on an average between four to five times a month.
Launched in August 2013, the private jet division of Emirates airline has so far flown around 450 hours with its sole aircraft. The division’s initial customers were predominantly members of the UAE ruling families and the Saudi Arabia royal family.
“It’s moving away from that. We are getting clients from Africa; we are getting mainly governmental, presidential movements. We are getting traffic from Russia which is more business oriented,” Kazim said.
Emirates Executive is looking to attract more customers from India and China, Kazim said, while the services primary destinations are in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia.
