Saudi Arabian Private Jet Market growing at 10 Percent
With 30,000 aircraft movements last year, Saudi Arabia’s private aviation sector is considered the GCC’s largest general aviation market.

The Saudi market accounts for almost half of the 550 business jets in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region and is growing at 10 percent a year, the head of a leading Saudi Arabian aviation company said in Riyadh at last month’s Middle East Business Aviation Conference.

“There are an estimated 550 general aviation aircraft in the region and Saudi Arabia represents 40 percent of them. The kingdom is the largest market in the Middle East and has the region’s highest number of widebody long-range aircraft,” Sulaiman Al Hamdan, Group CEO of National Air Services Group (NAS Holding), said during his opening address to the conference.