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Comlux Expands Completions and Maintenance Footprint

By Charles Alcock • Managing Editor

December 11, 2012

The Middle East continues to be a key market for business aviation services group Comlux, with Bahrain being its main base in the region and home to three of its largest managed aircraft: a Boeing 767, an Airbus ACJ320 and an ACJ319. The Swiss-based company is seeing increased flying activity in Saudi Arabia, but group president and CEO Richard Gaona indicated to AIN ahead of this week’s MEBA show that increased competition, some of it from so-called “gray” (that is, probably illegal) charter operations, is inhibiting growth in the region. So, too, is political uncertainty with instability further north, in potentially promising markets such as Lebanon and Egypt, stalling the expansion of business aviation there.

“But we have a neutral approach [in this region] and put a Swiss touch on everything we do,” said Gaona. “The Middle East market certainly appreciates European quality.”

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