Regulations and Government
Middle East Key Location for Boeing Business Jets
Governments, VVIPs, charter companies, and corporations in the Middle East and North Africa are home to 29 percent of the BBJ fleet.
Boeing  Business Jets BBJ2
Highlighting the popularity of VVIP airliners in the Middle East, this Boeing Business Jets BBJ2 on static display is registered to Pasaca Capital, a Pasadena, California-based finance company. (Photo: David McIntosh)

Boeing Business Jets logged four orders and two green and one completed deliveries this year, the company told AIN at MEBAA 2022. “Next year is looking much stronger, though, as we have a number of what we think are good probability campaigns in work,” said Boeing Business Jets director of marketing Alex Fecteau. “We’ve had a total of 15 BBJ Max orders, and delivered eight, with seven in the pipeline to delivery.”

Citing WingX flight data, Fecteau said 34 percent of all BBJ flights arrived or departed in the Middle East between January 2019 and September 2022. WingX’s global business jet moving seven-day average for flights shows global traffic is up 14 percent on 2019 year-to-date, while the Middle East is up 62 percent over the same period.

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