Annual Inventory and Forecast of the Chinese Civil Aviation Maintenance Market

The Chinese civil aviation maintenance market will remain active in 2009. The civil aviation maintenance market will be affected negatively by the global economic recession, airline integrations, fleet adjustment, and old aircraft retirement in the short term. But the entire civil aviation maintenance market will see long-term growth, and the Chinese market in particular will draw greater attention. Now, most imported aircraft are gradually approaching the end of their warranties and entering their repair period. CCID Consulting estimates that there are more than 500 aircrafts valued at 1.85 billion U.S. dollars entering their repair period in 2009, and the trend will continue.
As far as competition in this industry is concerned, a lack of skilled technical staff will become the major constraining factor in enterprise development, and labor costs will keep rising. Also, integrated or internal servicing are more favored by civil aviation companies. With the recession, new forms of cooperation and integration among civil aviation maintenance enterprises. Original equipment manufacturers and civil aviation companies are becoming the trend, which will become more obvious in 2009.