Adel Mardini · Founder & CEO, Jetex

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Adel Mardini, Founder and CEO of Jetex

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Forbes Middle East · 2025

Jetex founder

Every traveller who passes through Jetex is a guest, not a passenger.

Adel Mardini with Lionel Messi at the Jetex football wall, 2021 — 2021 · Lionel Messi

Adel Mardini with H.H. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE — H.H. Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Adel Mardini with H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives in Dubai, 2024 — Dubai 2024 · H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed

Adel Mardini with Cristiano Ronaldo at the Dubai Globe Soccer Awards, 2024 — Dubai 2024 · Cristiano Ronaldo

Adel Mardini seated with H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai — H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai

Adel Mardini with H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco at the Fight Aids Cup in Monaco, 2024 — Monaco 2024 · H.S.H. Prince Albert II

40+ terminals, one guest experience, one standard at a time.

Adel Mardini at a World Economic Forum event, 2025 — 2025 · World Economic Forum

Adel Mardini with the Jetex crew at the Jetex Dubai terminal, 2024 — Dubai 2024 · The Jetex crew

Adel Mardini with H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, at Jetex — H.H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Adel Mardini with H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed and guests at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives in Dubai, 2024 — Dubai 2024 · MBR Global Initiatives

theJourney

Terminals, recognition, expansion. The milestones behind the standard.

theLifestyle

World leaders, icons, heads of state. The access behind the name.

Adel Mardini stepping off a private jet, welcomed by Jetex crew in Dubai

Adel Mardini seated on the airstair of a private jet in Dubai, 2023

Dubai, 2023

Familiar
faces

From heads of state to icons of sport: guests hosted to one standard of discretion, precision and five-star execution.

Lionel Messi2021
H.H. Sheikh Mohammed2025
Cristiano Ronaldo2024
H.S.H. Prince Albert II2024
Ryan Reynolds2024
H.H. Sheikh Hamdan2024
Conor McGregor2022
Naomi Campbell2024
Ousmane Dembélé2024
Lionel Richie2022
Achraf Hakimi2024
World Economic Forum2024

Explore the story behind the vision.

Discover the journey

In the press

Top 100 leaders

Adel Mardini is the founder and CEO of Jetex, the private aviation company he launched at the Dubai Airshow in 2005. Under his leadership, Jetex has grown into a global network of 40+ private jet terminals. He has been named among Forbes Middle East’s Top 100 Travel & Tourism Leaders each year from 2023 to 2025.

Robb Report Monaco cover, September 2025

Economy Middle East cover, October 2025

CEO Middle East cover, 2025

Adel Mardini on CNN Quest Means Business, 2023

Forbes Middle East Travel and Tourism Leaders 2024

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