Source: ACI World Guangzhou Airport announced as the host of the 2025 ACI World Customer Experience Summit & Exhibition ACI World Director General Luis Felipe de Oliveira and CCAA Chairman Mam Wang Ruiping sign MoU on strengthened collaboration. Airports Council International (ACI) World, ACI Asia-Pacific & Middle East (ACI APAC & MID), and the China Civil Airports Association (CCAA) sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen the cooperation of Chinese airports. ACI World's Director General, Luis Felipe de Oliveira, has wrapped up a five-day tour around China from 9–15 January, which included meetings with top level representatives from CCAA, Beijing Capital International Airport, Daxing International Airport, and Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, as well as Government representatives including Civil Aviation [...]

Source: ACI-LAC The Dominican Republic's Mónika Infante, CEO of AERODOM, assumes the presidency of the Board of Directors of the Airports Council International for Latin America and the Caribbean (ACI-LAC) for the period 2024 - 2025. She is the first woman to lead the association since it was founded in 1991. Infante will be joined on the Executive Committee by Ezequiel Barrenecha, president of TAGSA and former president of ACI-LAC; Juan José Salmón, CEO of Lima Airport Partners; Evans Avendaño, CEO of Airports Peru; Raúl Revuelta, CEO of Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico; and Jorge Rosillo, CEO of ECOGAL. The new Board of Directors was elected by ACI-LAC's member airports during the last Annual General Meeting, held on November 6, 2023. [...]

Source: ALTA "Air transport in Colombia has been growing steadily and still has enormous potential; performance figures prove it. However, there are still significant challenges that impact the cost of flying," said José Ricardo Botelho, ALTA's Executive Director and CEO, who today launched Colombia Aviation Insight 2023. It is a statistical compendium with key indicators of passenger demand and aviation capacity in Colombia, such as the main airports and city pairs in the country, in terms of volume and growth. According to other data, the document reports that, in 2023, the passenger traffic on domestic routes was 29.7 million, almost three times the 10.7 million carried in 2009. Meanwhile, international traffic grew from 5.6 million to 19.8 million passengers in [...]

Source: ACI-LAC Airports Council International Latin America and the Caribbean (ACI-LAC) is pleased to announce that, as of January 2024, Filipe Pereira dos Reis will be joining our team as a senior consultant working on regional airport issues. He will also be ACI-LAC's interlocutor with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and will be part of the association's technical committees. With more than 25 years' experience in the civil aviation industry, Filipe has been based for the last decade in Miami, USA, where he held the position of regional director for airports, passengers, cargo and security in the Americas at IATA, coordinating modernization projects and security and facilitation improvements relating to the passenger experience and air cargo handling processes. He [...]

Source: IATA The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for November 2023 air travel performance indicating that air travel demand topped 99% of 2019 levels. Total traffic in November 2023 (measured in revenue passenger kilometers or RPKs) rose 29.7% compared to November 2022. Globally, traffic is now at 99.1% of November 2019 levels. International traffic rose 26.4% versus November 2022. The Asia-Pacific region continued to report the strongest year-over-year results (+63.8%) with all regions showing improvement compared to the prior year. November 2023 international RPKs reached 94.5% of November 2019 levels. Domestic traffic for November 2023 was up 34.8% compared to November 2022. Total November 2023 domestic traffic was 6.7% above the November 2019 level. Growth was particularly strong [...]