A multi-engine, instrument rated pilot, James Wynbrandt has been an AIN and Business Jet Traveler contributor since 2003. His in-depth reporting and insightful features have won more than a dozen editorial honors, including two National Business Aviation Association Gold Wing Awards (2019; 2021), and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Barron’s, Fortune, Forbes, and Smithsonian Air &amp; Space. He has flown his Mooney M20K 252 on assignments throughout North and Central America and the Caribbean. Wynbrandt is also the author of Flying High (Wiley &amp; Sons), a biography of Jet Blue founder David Neeleman, as well as histories, references works, and books on a variety of other topics from major publishers. He lives in New York City.

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James Wynbrandt

In a prelude to the business aviation community’s anticipated migration to Dubai’s new Al Maktoum International Airport (Dubai World Central, DWC), the 2012 Middle East Business Aviation show was staged there for the first time last month (December 11-13). The event was accommodated in an under-construction terminal that is destined to be used for low-cost airlines, but beginning in 2014 it is due to be housed permanently in a new dedicated exhibition center still under construction as part of the wider Dubai World Central development.


MEBA 2012 was no blockbuster in terms of news announcements. However, it attracted 7,549 trade visitors–a 20-percent increase on the 2010 show–and they were received by 385 exhibitors from 84 countries (a 14-percent increase). There was also evidence of new bizav infrastructure being developed across the Gulf region.


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Meba Attracts A Crowd To  Al Maktoum  In Dubai

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