This year’s Olympic Games in Beijing could provide the catalyst for Chinese authorities to adopt a more user-friendly attitude toward business aviation, according to Judith Moreton, managing director of Bombardier’s Skyjet International block charter program. Continued inflexibility over issues such as airport and airways access combined with a shortage of aircraft has impeded business aircraft flying in a Chinese marketplace whose rising wealth could be supporting a boom. And similar issues have artificially slowed private and executive charter growth throughout Asia.
Moreton told AIN that Chinese authorities will certainly have to adopt a more flexible approach to the international business aircraft that will descend on Beijing for the games this August, including many that are operated by Olympic sponsors. “This will force the necessary legislative change,” she said.
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