Gulfstream's Arabian Gulf Fleet Passes 100
Gulfstream now has more than 100 aircraft operating in the Arabian Gulf region, including examples of the G550 that it displayed at this week's Air Expo show in Abu Dhabi. [Photo: Peter Shaw-Smith]
Gulfstream now has more than 100 aircraft operating in the Arabian Gulf region, including examples of the G550 that it displayed at this week's Air Expo show in Abu Dhabi. [Photo: Peter Shaw-Smith]

Gulfstream has a fleet of over 100 business aircraft owned and operated in the Arabian Gulf region, with both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) representing strong customer basses in the large-cabin market. “Both of them take the lion’s share of the airplanes,” Trevor Esling, Gulfstream’s regional senior vice president, international sales, Europe, Middle East and Africa told AIN at Abu Dhabi’s Air Expo show today. “The [Gulf region] fleet is somewhere in excess of 100 aircraft. From our numbers, we have around 55 percent of the large cabin market here. It’s always been a strong Gulfstream market, particularly in both those territories.”