After a successful opening of a luxury FBO at Paris Le Bourget Airport as the first step in its international expansion plans, JetEx Flight Support has established a second site in Europe with a facility at Kiev, the capital of the Ukraine. In addition to further FBOs planned in Ukraine, the company, which is headquartered at Dubai International Airport, plans to open a facility in that country next year. Meanwhile, it is also exploring sites in Lebanon and China.<o:p></o:p>
The Le Bourget FBO has been completely upgraded since the company acquired the half of the building occupied by Belgium’s Flying Group and added it to its own share in February 2009. Managing partner Salem Youssef told AIN that despite the economic downturn, JetEx has “done well and fully met expectations.” When it took over from Flying Group, average daily aircraft movements roughly doubled to 20. Back in April he said he expected traffic at the new base to increase to around 30 movements daily by the end of this year but now he said, “JetEx is handling around 40 movements on an average weekday, rising to 60 on busy days.” About half of the movements involve NetJets Europe flights.
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