Maintenance and Modifications
Tianjin Maintenance Grows in Beijing’s Shadow
Traffic flocking to the ExecuJet Haite Aviation Services MRO facility is growing as Beijing Capital Airport gets more congested.

When ExecuJet Aviation opened its maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility at Tianjin Airport back in 2014, it might have seemed that the Europe-based international group had booked a somewhat obscure location to enter the China market. But now the company says that the facility, which is approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), is getting increasingly busy as traffic levels build, in part due to congestion at Beijing Capital Airport.

The airport, which is 70 miles (113 km) southeast of Beijing, was only handling around 10 to 15 business jets on any given day at the time ExecuJet’s facility opened. But Paul Desgrosseilliers, general manager of ExecuJet Haite Aviation Services (a joint venture with China’s Tianjin Haite) told AIN that today there are around 50 to 60 business aircraft parked at Tianjin most of the time.