Private jet sector to fly
By Zha Minjie |
April 14, 2011, Thursday
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SHANGHAI will expand its business aviation service base at Hongqiao International Airport as the city eyes rising business trips and increasing number of private aircraft.
Wang Guangdi, board chairman of Shanghai Hawker Pacific Aviation Service Centre, said yesterday that "the potential demand is huge around the Yangtze Delta region" and Shanghai "shall catch this opportunity."
The city's airports handled 3,500 movements of business aircraft in 2010, about 33 percent of the total volume in the country, said the Shanghai Airport Authority.
The volume may increase an average of 10 to 15 percent in the next five years, said Wang. To handle the expected volume of 6,000 movements in the next two to three years, another 4,000 square-meter hangar will be built at the Hongqiao base, which became operational one year ago in March, the SAA said.
It said it is also working to improve repair and maintenance services, and by the end of this year three firms will offer such work at the center.
Speaking at a business aviation forum yesterday held together with the first Shanghai International Business Aviation Show, Xu Chaoqian, an official with the state civil aviation authority, said that "the airspace resources will be restructured in the following five years. The general aviation sector needs to be reformed."
Wang Guangdi, board chairman of Shanghai Hawker Pacific Aviation Service Centre, said yesterday that "the potential demand is huge around the Yangtze Delta region" and Shanghai "shall catch this opportunity."
The city's airports handled 3,500 movements of business aircraft in 2010, about 33 percent of the total volume in the country, said the Shanghai Airport Authority.
The volume may increase an average of 10 to 15 percent in the next five years, said Wang. To handle the expected volume of 6,000 movements in the next two to three years, another 4,000 square-meter hangar will be built at the Hongqiao base, which became operational one year ago in March, the SAA said.
It said it is also working to improve repair and maintenance services, and by the end of this year three firms will offer such work at the center.
Speaking at a business aviation forum yesterday held together with the first Shanghai International Business Aviation Show, Xu Chaoqian, an official with the state civil aviation authority, said that "the airspace resources will be restructured in the following five years. The general aviation sector needs to be reformed."
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