The year 2024 marked a new milestone for the aviation industry. Passenger traffic not only rebounded from the pandemic but also expected to have exceeded pre-pandemic levels, signaling a new era of growth. Asia-Pacific served an estimated 3.5 billion passengers or 3% increase over 2019, while the Middle East continued its upward trajectory, reaching an estimated 443 million passengers—a remarkable 9% growth over pre-pandemic levels.
Presenting Mr. Jean-Michel Ratron, CEO of Aeroport de Tahiti, operating four airports in French Polynesia handling two million passengers a year.
Introducing Mr. Fred Lam, CEO of Airport Authority Hong Kong, longstanding member of the ACI Asia-Pacific Regional and ACI World Governing Board.
Get to know Mr. Yoshiyuki Yamaya, Representative Director and CEO of Kansai Airports in Japan. Kansai is home to around 20 million people and the second largest economy in Japan.
Director General, Stefano Baronci, reflects on ACI Asia-Pacific's Regional Board meeting and the success of ACI’s health and carbon programmes.
In this edition of ‘Meet the Board’, we are featuring Mr. Gert-Jan de Graaff who took on the role of Chief Executive Officer at Brisbane Airport Corporation in 2018.
In a new segment called ‘Meet the Board’, we are featuring and introducing you to the members of the ACI Asia-Pacific Regional Board. We will get to know them better by learning about their leadership style, their thoughts on the next generation of leaders and, unavoidably, the impact of the pandemic.
In a series called ‘Meet the Board’, we are featuring and introducing members of the ACI Asia-Pacific Regional Board. We will get to know them better by learning about their leadership style, their thoughts on the next generation of leaders and, unavoidably, the impact of the pandemic. Second in our series is Mr. SGK Kishore, Executive Director of GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited, India and Second Vice President of the ACI Asia-Pacific Regional Board. After nearly two decades of service in India’s government, Mr Kishore took up a leadership role in 2007 with private sector infrastructure company GMR at the then under-construction Hyderabad Airport.
In a series called ‘Meet the Board’, we will be featuring and introducing you to the members of the ACI Asia-Pacific Regional Board. We will get to know them better by learning about their leadership style, their thoughts on the next generation of leaders and, unavoidably, the impact of the pandemic. Up first, we have H. E. Ali Salim Al Midfa, Chairman of Sharjah Airport in the United Arab Emirates.
The restart and recovery phase for aviation is proving to be an uphill battle, a situation not helped by constantly changing travel restrictions and growing fears about a new wave of the pandemic that has already cost over 900,000 lives globally and virtually brought the world as we knew it to a standstill. Our ongoing response to the pandemic, of course, includes doing all we can to help and support our members through the crisis.
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