China Eastern Airlines proposes to set up a unit to offer business jet travel, subject to government approval. The airline is giving no details, but the move reflects Beijing’s increasingly friendly attitude to business and general aviation, a traditional taboo in a country whose airspace is controlled by the air force as part of national defense policy.

Tiger Airways will set up its second Australian base at Adelaide with two Airbus A319s to be delivered early next year. It says it expects to base more aircraft in the southern city in the following eight years. The budget airline, which has not yet announced routes to be flown from Adelaide, has its main base at Singapore, another at Melbourne, and will set one up at Incheon when a planned South Korean affiliate begins flying under the Tiger brand.

Passenger protests in the Chinese aviation industry will result in punishment for the airlines involved, not the passengers, says China’s civil aviation administration. In a statement that can only alarm an industry famous for dissatisfied customers, the administration’s deputy chief, Yang Guoqing says, “We will severely punish airlines which experience aircraft occupations and other incidents as a result of service reasons which originate with the airline.”