Beijing and Shanghai are likely to get dedicated airports for business aviation, boosting growth prospects for the industry while relieving commercial airports of the accompanying airspace congestion. The director-general of the Civil Aviation Administration of China, Li Jiaxiang, says building the two airports will be part of a set of policies that the agency is working on for the promotion of business aviation.

Australia is stretching out the construction of three air defense destroyers, aiming to preserve skills without adding to the cost of the Navantia-designed, Hobart-class ships. The first of the Aegis-equipped ships, HMAS Hobart, is now due for delivery in March 2016, 16 months after the previous target and nine years after construction contracts were signed. The Royal Australian Navy should receive HMAS Brisbane by September 2017 and HMAS Sydney in March 2019, Defense Minister Stephen Smith says.

Boeing expects a boom in international services from China’s secondary cities in the next 20 years, and has shifted its sales forecast for the country accordingly. Chinese airlines will need to introduce 5,260 commercial aircraft worth $670 billion in the two decades to 2031, Boeing says in its new forecast. Of these new aircraft, about 75% will be used for capacity expansion, compared with the global average of about 60%, adds the U.S. airframer.