New biz jet operator Faisal Aviation officially launched at Sharjah

Faisal Aviation based at Sharjah International Airport officially launched yesterday.

Initially the company will use a Gulfstream G200 that it has already acquired, and said it expects to receive a Bombardier Challenger 604 “within a week”. As well as plans to acquire another G200 within a month.

According to the operator’s director of flight operations Ebrahim Ahram the second aircraft would be based in the Austrian city of Viennea where it could tap into the Far East and the Eastern European markets.

"The market still looks good. People still have to move," Ahram said, "We are hitting the Far East market because there is more activity there, even with the financial crisis."

The company has signed up customers and said it will be setting up offices in Syria.

"We have steady clients but things have slowed down now. The demand is still there. All you have to do is instead of flying four times a month, now fly two times a month," said Ahram