ExecuJet will provide maintenance services to the Hong Kong-based HK Bellawings Jet Limited aircraft management and operating company under an agreement signed here at ABACE.
Construction of additional commercial airports will be most important, not the remarkable total of 500 general aviation fields that China also wants to build.
Completions specialist Flying Colours Corp. has delivered the first three CRJ200 ex-airliner-to-VIP conversions for Chinese luxury company Sparkle Roll’s SR Jet, and will deliver three more by the end of the year.
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Jinggong Global Jet reports strong demand for its first aircraft fully available for charter, a Falcon 2000EX EASy, and has now expanded into aircraft management with a Falcon 7X.
TAG Farnborough Airport, the UK’s only dedicated business aviation gateway to London, is seeing a large jump in traffic coming or going directly to Asia Pacific, with India and China proving the favorites.
Textron Aviation’s rugged turboprop Cessna Caravans are in strong demand in China. But while there is a lot of interest in Cessna’s business jets, orders have been elusive and this year will also be soft.
An initiative to help new buyers of pre-owned Airbus Corporate Jets has been launched to bring the manufacturer’s full spectrum of customer support and expertise to getting the most out of the aircraft.
Comlux had the foresight to buy three Airbus ACJ320neo and two Boeing BBJ MAX for “green” delivery next year and in 2019, two to three years ahead of the next available delivery slots from the manufacturers.
More charter flights arrived in China last year from the Russian Federation than from anywhere else in the world, while the most popular destination from China was the U.S.
Simulation and training specialist CAE had expectations for a larger footprint in China by now, but a significant business aviation slowdown has the company focusing efforts on recurrent training to keep its simulator busy.
Asia’s first-time buyer has become a first-time seller as older business jets are traded in for newer or brand new models. It also helps explain the growing market in the region for pre-owned business jets.
The Vision Jet received FAA certification last October as the world’s first single-engine very light jet, and the first was handed over to a U.S. customer in December.
The business of maintaining business jets is booming at ExecuJet Haite Aviation Services China, which operates from a large purpose-built hangar at Tianjin Binhai International Airport.
Severe restrictions at airports and inadequate infrastructure are affecting the utility and future growth of business aviation in Asia-Pacific. But there is a solution: Private capital.
