The emirate of Qatar occupies a small peninsula thrust out of the much larger Arabian Peninsula into the Persian Gulf a short distance north of the UAE. The captain we quoted first in the main text, flies often to Doha, capital and largest city. Here’s his report on what to expect: “We work Riyadh and Jeddah to Bahrain on the way down,” he said, describing arrival from the north. “Doha, right on the coast of the Persian Gulf, has one 15,000-ft. runway, and they are building two more the same length!”

JetEx is a six-year-old business aviation services company headquartered in Dubai with FBOs at Paris le Bourget and Kiev, Ukraine; a license to open a third at the new Al Maktoum International Airport (OMDW); and “looking at other opportunities,” such as China, where the UAE company maintains an office in Beijing.

Australia has made a major investment in installing and implementing an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) network with near nationwide reach to address a lack of radar coverage over much of the continent. We polled Airservices Australia’s Amanda Palmer, media and public affairs advisor, about the new Upper Airspace Program. BCA: What was Australia’s investment in its ADS-B network (i.e., roughly, how much did it cost)?