Boeing + Shanghai Airport Authority
Boeing
Arlington, Virginia · 2 relationships
Active relationship
Joint Venture · 2006–present
Shanghai Airport Authority
Shanghai, Shanghai · 1 relationship
Analysis
Boeing, Shanghai Airport Authority and Shanghai Airlines formed Boeing Shanghai Aviation Services in 2006 as a maintenance, repair and overhaul venture at Shanghai Pudong International Airport. The partners announced an $85 million investment split 60 percent to Boeing, 25 percent to the airport authority and 15 percent to Shanghai Airlines, and broke ground after receiving central and municipal approvals. [1]
The original construction plan called for a double-bay hangar and support shops followed by a second double-bay hangar, parts warehouse, engine shop and ground-equipment facility. The venture's operating scope included aircraft modifications and maintenance, aviation-equipment sales and repair, and related engineering and technical services. [1]
The current company identifies China Eastern Airlines as the airline shareholder alongside Boeing and Shanghai Airport Authority. It offers fleet engineering, heavy and line maintenance, aircraft modification, component repair and overhaul, and supply-chain management, supported by Chinese, U.S. and European maintenance approvals for multiple Boeing types and certain Airbus work. [2] [3]
The partnership also uses Shanghai's free-trade-zone customs framework to serve aircraft arriving from outside China. Boeing Shanghai reported that it became the first aircraft maintenance and modification company in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone and imported 28 aircraft valued at $3.68 billion for maintenance or modification in 2017, illustrating the venture's role as an international service hub rather than only a domestic airline workshop. [4]
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Arlington, Virginia · 2 records in this database
The Boeing Company began in Seattle in 1916, when William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt entered the aviation business and Boeing formed Pacific Aero Products; the company was renamed Boeing Airplane Company in 1917. Boeing's early operations included aircraft manufacturing in the Pacific Northwest, and the company has since developed into a major aerospace manufacturer and services provider. [1]
Boeing's 2025 Form 10-K describes three reportable segments: Commercial Airplanes, Defense, Space & Security, and Global Services. Commercial Airplanes develops, produces and markets commercial jet aircraft, including the 737, 767, 777 and 787 families, with the 777X and 737-7 and 737-10 derivatives in development. [2]
Defense, Space & Security develops and produces manned and unmanned military aircraft, weapons systems, rotorcraft, commercial derivatives, strategic defense and intelligence systems, satellites and space-exploration systems. Global Services supports commercial and defense customers with supply-chain and logistics management, engineering, maintenance, modifications, upgrades, spare parts, training, technical documentation and digital solutions. [2]
Boeing's modern corporate structure was reshaped by its 1997 merger with McDonnell Douglas, after which the companies began operating as a single Boeing with commercial, defense and space capabilities. Boeing now says it develops, manufactures and services aerospace products for customers in more than 150 countries, and its principal executive offices are in Arlington, Virginia. [3] [4] [5]
Shanghai, Shanghai · 1 record in this database
Shanghai Airport Authority is the public English name used for the Shanghai airport group created in May 1998, when Shanghai approved a company to operate and manage Pudong International Airport and Hongqiao International Airport together. The group’s own history describes this as the institutional response to a “one city, two airports” operating structure, with the two airports managed as one Shanghai air hub. [1]
Current group information identifies Shanghai Airport (Group) Co., Ltd. at Yingbin Second Road and lists Shanghai International Airport Co., Ltd. for Pudong and Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport Co., Ltd. for Hongqiao. The group’s disclosed airport-related scope includes construction, operation and management, aviation ground services, freight and logistics, warehousing, aviation-fuel support and related commercial services. This makes the authority a coordinated airport-system operator rather than the owner of only one terminal. [2]
The latest annual operating release reports that Shanghai’s two airports handled 839,000 arriving and departing flights in 2025, more than 135 million passengers and 4.5 million tonnes of cargo and mail. Passenger throughput rose 8.3 percent year on year, cargo and mail rose 7.9 percent, and Hongqiao passed 50 million passengers for the first time. The release also records 26 consecutive safe operating years for Pudong and 38 for Hongqiao, showing the system’s current operational scale and safety record as reported by the operator. [3]