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ACI Asia-Pacific & Middle East, Air connectivity ranking

2025-05-28
Press Release

Air Connectivity Ranking: Asia-Pacific reports 13% growth; Middle East leads with 28%

Airports Council International Asia-Pacific & Middle East (ACI APAC & MID) today announced its highly anticipated Air Connectivity Ranking 2024, revealing a remarkable 14% year-on-year increase in both Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, driven by strong international demand, robust network recovery, and the return of major travel corridors.

2022-08-30
ACI Updates

Airports Encouraged to Adopt Alphanumeric Callsigns

Alphanumeric callsign is a proven way of reducing the risk of confusion amongst pilots, ATC and airports of very similar callsigns such as EK1234 and QR1234. The concept is simple: replace the numeric part of the callsign with a string of letters and numbers to maximize of the number of possible combinations and hence minimize the occurrences of similar callsigns. For example UAE408 would become UAE58E.

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ICAO APAC Regional Webinar on Global Reporting System and Format (GRF)

2022-08-16
ACI Updates

ICAO APAC Regional Webinar on GRF

Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC), International Civil Aviation Organisation and Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific will jointly organise a webinar on Global Reporting System and Format (GRF) on September 29, 2022 with the theme “Ten Months into GRF, Challenges Met and Lessons Learned in Asia-Pacific".

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ACI Asia-Pacific participated in Korea Aviation Noise Policy Forum

2022-06-08
ACI Updates

ACI Asia-Pacific Participates in Korea Aviation Noise Policy Forum

Aircraft noise management is a high priority for airports as part of their environmental sustainability. Over the years, airports have been engaging with local governments, aviation authorities and other stakeholders to explore solutions for aircraft noise management. ACI Asia-Pacific, as one of the key stakeholders in the industry, has been helping its members to address aircraft noise.

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