Majestic Executive Aviation, which is developing business from bases in Dubai, Vienna and the Ukraine, is in negotiations for new aircraft after expanding its managed fleet to three. But director of sales Michael Makarius says: "We are not currently in a position to disclose any details of other aircraft that might be arriving in the future."

Majestic, chaired by Farooq Arjomand whose own Learjet 60 was the first aircraft to be chartered out by the company, has an Austrian AOC and is applying for a UAE AOC. Makarius says that a G-200 which is being acquired to operate from Dubai will join the Learjet and a managed Challenger 850 operating out of the Ukraine. "Our business plan puts us at the forefront of the growing demand in the former CIS states and the Middle East."