The changing view from Carey Matthews' Hongq-iao International Airport office gives a snapshot of the driving issues in Asian business aviation. Matthews is general manager of Hawker Pacific's Shanghai Business Aviation Service Centre, the first of its type in China when it opened in 2010. Shanghai handles a third of all business jet flights in and out of the country through its two airports, Hongqiao and Pudong. Since 2010 the aircraft parked on Hawker Pacific's tarmac and in its hangar have generally become larger, more plentiful, and used with more confidence. And the Hawker Pacific facility itself, in the only Chinese city as yet with two airports, is symbolic of the region's investment in infrastructure to meet the needs of a growing market.
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