Air Partner launches jet card with intra-MENA flight options

The new 25 hour Air Partner Middle East JetCard is being launched today at the Business Travel Show in Dubai, following on from last year’s introduction of the company’s European and Continental US service area cards to GCC-originating travellers flying within these continents.  

The Middle East JetCard is aimed at local business and leisure travellers wishing to fly within their home region, as well as overseas visitors to the Middle East (including European and USA JetCard holders) who need or want to undertake multi-centre trips.  

Air Partner’s Middle East service area encompasses Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.   Additionally, the card includes the destinations of Tehran and Esfahan in Iran, and Kabul in Afghanistan, for flights to or from the Middle East service area.  

Following the recent formation of a strategic alliance with Bahrain-based MENA Aerospace, the new Middle East JetCard will be promoted in Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia by MENA. Elsewhere, Air Partner is in discussion with several other high-profile aviation companies with the aim of forming more marketing partnerships.  

“Demand from clients worldwide, and the significant improvement in the quality and quantity of private aircraft available for charter in the Middle East over the last 12 months, prompted us to expand our JetCard offering” said Kevin Ducksbury, Air Partner’ s Dubai-based director of Middle East and Asia.  

“The time was right to extend the reach of our JetCard scheme to meet client demand,” he added. “Not only have we added a third service area, we have also devised a jet card that offers far more flexibility than the small number of similar products already available in the region.”  

“The success of our JetCard scheme over the last six years, together with client demand for a Middle East service area, helped to strengthen our resolve to further invest in our JetCard product,” concluded Ducksbury. “Its appeal is universal because, in addition to meeting demand from the local market, research among our European and USA JetCard holders has revealed that having a convenient Middle East service area will make their lives much simpler.”  

The Air Partner Middle East JetCard promises fixed price aircraft availability guaranteed at 48 hours’ notice. Competitive prices are fully inclusive with no ferry costs and no fuel or airport surcharges. Aircraft cabin upgrades or downgrades are permitted, there are no peak day restrictions, return trips qualify for a 15 per cent discount, unused airtime can be refunded and flight credit never expires.  

Three aircraft cabin sizes are available in the Middle East on the 25-hour cards. Midsize jets for up to seven passengers are charged at USD$230,000 (USD$9,200 an hour); large cabin aircraft for up to 10 people at USD$358,750 (USD$14,350 an hour) and global jets capable of taking 14 passengers for USD$487,500 (USD$19,500 an hour). There are restrictions on minimum hours.

The long-established Air Partner European JetCard offers these aircraft plus very light, light and super midsize jets.