Exclusive: Jetpets in Dubai Pump $5.3BN PET Travel Boom as High-Net-Fashies Drives Pertive Jet Deaple

In recent times, Dubai has seen a surge in the number of high-net-worth and Ultra-High-Het-Tois-Tois.

“We have more people who want to fly into Dubai than people who want to fly into Dubai,” Wahab was told Arabian business in an exclusive interview. “Of the people who came out of Dubai, they usually went for business or holidays. But most of them were entering Dubai, most of them are moving for work.”

Fly Jetpets was launched in October 2024 at Al Maktoum International Airport in partnership with jetex, a global private jet company through the Indonesian Ambassador to the Uae Hudin Bagis offered the Uae Hudin Bagis offered the job.

The company offers private charts for clients to book all flights, as well as shared charts for travelers traveling the same routes and times to split costs.

Private jet charters for pets usually range from $10,000 to $15,000 per hour depending on the type of flight, route, season and placement, Wahab explains. The London-Dubai route, one of the company’s flagship sectors, costs about $10,000 for a full charter.

Shared options run from several thousand dollars per seat up to $13,000 depending on distance and need.

“Our goal is to make pet travel as affordable as possible,” said Wahab, a pet parent. “We come from that perspective, we have pets and the main concern is that we don’t want pets to fly in the hold. But private jets are expensive with the higher costs we face in terms of higher prices.”

Demand follows Dubai’s migration calendar, peaking before summer in April and May, and then again from August to October as residents return. The December holiday season causes another wave as families leave for the first two weeks and return to the UAE in mid-January.

“Many people fly across the country in the first or second week of December and usually return to the UAE around the first or second week of January,” he added.

The customer base is split between sending families and frequent travelers to many destinations. “We have customers going back and forth between Dubai and London, for example,” Wahab said.

While the Core routes connect to London, Dubai and the European Hubs in Europe, the strategic partnership with jetex enables global operations through an extensive network of private terminals and global services.

Even though we are based in Dubai, almost every day we receive questions from all over the world, not only from Dubai, “said Wahab only. This shows that the industry is really growing.”

Apart from pricing, Wahab identified regulatory compliance as a challenge for the explaining industry. Pet travel documents vary across jurisdictions without a standardized framework, unlike human travel where passports and visas follow on a par with passports.

“For people who want to travel with their pets, one of the biggest nightmares is pet travel documents,” she said. “Unlike human travel where you just need a passport and maybe a visa, with pet travel there is no one-size-fits-all.”

What Wahab describes as “One of the biggest dreams of the biggest owners” of pet owners comes from the absence of universal laws. Shift requirements based on country of origin, end, domestication, species classification, vaccination records and past movements.

The UAE prohibits certain breeds of dog, including Tibetan mastiffs and American bullies, forcing operators to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the market.

For shared charts, behavioral testing adds complexity beyond regulatory compliance. The company checks whether pets are active, friendly or playful before receiving cab arrangements. Dogs that need muzzers are separated from other animals to prevent mid-flight incidents. “We don’t lump all the dogs together,” Wahab said.

Much of this remains manual work. Staff sometimes contact external regulatory bodies directly to ensure current import requirements, leveraging multiple sources to ensure compliance. While Wahab believes that common international law will facilitate operations, the current classification creates the need for specialized services that cannot navigate through specialized services that cannot navigate to clients.

The business reaches well beyond cats and dogs. Prospective clients have requested the transportation of pigeons and ferrets, among other unusual species. Wahab positioned the company as species-agnostic, willing to carry any animal that is still legal, not at risk of restricting services to regular pets.

“We get a lot of strange requests,” said Wahab.

Asia represents the next growth frontier with connections from Hong Kong and Singapore to Dubai remaining elusive, according to the pet-friendly aviation industry. Even the most established competition in the world has only been active for two or three years, leaving a lot of room for market development in the sub-regions.

Market growth projections are attributed to increasing pet humatisation, rising disposable income and higher spending on companion animals.

Allianz USA partners report that pets now accompany more than 40 percent of middle-aged travelers and nearly a quarter of senior travelers.

Wahab expects pet supplies to increase more than private jets in the next five years. Some commercial airlines already allow small cats in passenger cabins, and expect hotels, restaurants and cruise lines to expand their accommodation for animals.

When asked if commercial applity is growing – friendship will threaten the private sector, Wahab said, “There is a limit to commercial flights” because the basic barriers remain.

Size and breed restrictions often limit commercial cabin travel to carriers small enough to fit under the seats, with the exception of golden retrievers unless classified as support animals. Private charters face such limitations, even amiskan mothers can fly in a large cabin.

The value proposition extends beyond animal accommodation to the entire travel experience. Private terminals eliminate the check-in line, Luences Loubises places full Gate and Arrival Gate where arrival takes minutes instead of hours. “At the end of the day, people choose the travel experience,” Wahab said.

The five-year strategy aims at the expansion of the route beyond Dubai’s hubs, operating intra-Asia flights such as Hong Kong to Switzerppes. The challenge lies in maintaining premium service levels while driving costs that are constructive enough to expand the customer base beyond the Ultra-High-Net-Normal people.

Wahahab concluded: