Corporate jet manufacturer Gulfstream Aerospace believes the centre for executive jets at the new airport will elevate Hong Kong to one of the main hubs for corporate aviation in Asia.
Vice-chairman Brian Moss said the group was aiming at Hong Kong and the mainland for extra business on the back of the slots that will be available for corporate jets at the new airport.
The Hong Kong consortium building and operating the corporate jet facility at Chek Lap Kok - led by Sun Hung Kai Properties and several high-profile business figures - is looking to make the terminal the 'show window' of Hong Kong to an audience of senior businessmen and other elite figures.
Virtually no corporate jets have been able to fly into Kai Tak airport in recent years because of the slot priority given to full passenger aircraft and the fact that it is operating at full capacity.
Even international celebrities - most recently NBA basketball star Shaquille O'Neal - have been forced to fly into the under-utilised Macau airport in corporate jets and find other transport if they want to come to Hong Kong.
This has, in many cases, meant lost business for the SAR.
Mr Moss believes the opening of the corporate jet terminal at Chek Lap Kok at the end of next year - when the second runway begins operations - will open up a completely new market for Hong Kong.
