Queen Jets Launches Empty-Leg Brokerage; Beverly Royal to Debut at UN General Assembly Gala on 24 September 2026
Why It MattersPairing a discount empty-leg matching service with high-profile philanthropic and diplomatic events shows how private-aviation brokers increasingly use social and sponsorship networks, not just fleet access, to build client pipelines.
What happened
Nadia Saidi has founded Queen Jets, a private-aviation brokerage that aggregates empty-leg flights and matches them to clients at a fraction of full charter cost. Empty legs are flights operated without passengers when an aircraft repositions between charters or returns to base. Rather than publishing fixed departure listings, Queen Jets matches each client request to available legs that fit their timing, route and preferred airport, and continues searching until a suitable match is found; clients fly on the same aircraft, crews and private terminals as full-price charter passengers.
Separately, Beverly Royal LLC, a California-based business consulting and venture capital firm also led by Saidi, will launch publicly on 24 September 2026 at a Roundtable and Gala Dinner it is convening at the Penthouse Ballroom of the Mutual of America Building on Park Avenue in New York, during High-Level Week of the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. At the event, Othman Benjelloun, chairman and chief executive of Bank of Africa, will receive the US-Morocco Friendship Award.
The gala is Beverly Royal's second closed sponsorship of 2026. The first supported the Celebrate America 250 gala held at the Library of Congress in July, attended by senators, ambassadors and philanthropists, where Eric Trump delivered the keynote address and a Global Leadership Award was presented to the chairman of one of Europe's largest private healthcare and investment groups. Combined sponsorship negotiated by Beverly Royal in 2026 approaches USD 1 million, directed to philanthropic causes in the United States. Saidi also co-founded Villion AI, a hospitality concierge application handling reservations, access, itinerary changes and day-to-day travel orchestration using artificial intelligence, and leads Eluxe Branding LLC, a luxury-brand marketing agency operating from Los Angeles, Montreal and Milan. Queen Jets and Villion AI are designed to operate together, routing concierge requests into available lift through a single channel.
Industry impact & what to watch
Empty-leg matching services belong to a familiar category in charter brokerage: they monetize otherwise wasted repositioning capacity by offering it to price-sensitive clients who can be flexible on timing and route, while the aircraft, crew and terminal experience stay identical to a full-price booking. What distinguishes Queen Jets is the pairing of that matching model with a concierge layer through Villion AI, so a single request can route into both lift availability and day-to-day travel logistics.
Beverly Royal's parallel activity shows how a founder can use philanthropic and diplomatic sponsorship — a UN General Assembly Week gala, an award presented to a sitting bank chairman, a prior Library of Congress event with a presidential-family keynote speaker — to build the kind of high-net-worth network that a private-aviation brokerage depends on for referrals and repeat clients. The two ventures sharing leadership suggests the sponsorship activity functions as client-development infrastructure for the aviation and concierge businesses rather than as a standalone philanthropic program.
What happens at the 24 September gala, and whether Beverly Royal converts its stated near-USD-1-million 2026 sponsorship total into a third event before year-end, will indicate whether this network-building approach scales beyond two marquee gatherings a year.
