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China’s leading business aviation companies have formed an association to promote their industry within Greater China.

More than 2,000 Rolls-Royce-powered business jets are now enrolled in the company’s CorporateCare engine maintenance program.

The Cessna Caravan utility aircraft has proven to be the aircraft-maker’s most successful aircraft in mainland China.

With more than 100 of the sleek, piston-engine Cirrus aircraft in the hands of customers in China, the company is now focusing on product support.

The closing of Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport to general aviation, coupled with parking congestion in Hong Kong and China, are brightening the future for the Philippines’ Clark Air Base as a business jet center.

VistaJet believes there is business to be won from young, wealthy millennials and from globally-focused companies that don’t want the asset risk involved in owning an aircraft.

A record number of companies is exhibiting at the Asian Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition this year.

HNA Group business aviation unit Deer Jet has launched two packaged-service products, one for aircraft operation and another for ground handling.

Lufthansa Technik is the market leader in Greater China with around 30 VIP Airbus ACJ and Boeing BBJs delivered into the region since the mid 1980s.

Started 20 years ago in a “beach house” with a team of six employees offering one product, SatCom Direct now employs a team of nearly 400 worldwide.