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5 December 2016 Feature Airport Members Heibei Airport Management Holding Co. Ltd
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Passenger traffic in Asia-Pacific and Middle East grew 10% and 12% in September 2016 More…
Feature World Business Partners Members Heinemann Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
2016 ACI Asia-Pacific WBP Airport Tour – Concluded with Success! More… New ACI Airport IT Security Benchmarking Tool – 50% discount until end of 2016 More…
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New Zealand – South Island Success- China Southern Airlines Increase flights Christchurch Airport
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Singapore – Operating Indicators for October 2016 Changi Airport
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United Arab Emirates – DXB welcomes 6.4 million passengers in October Dubai Airports
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United Arab Emirates – 1.9 Million Passengers at Abu Dhabi International Airport in October Abu Dhabi Airports
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Feature Stories Passenger traffic in Asia-Pacific and Middle East grew 10% and 12% in September 2016 In September 2016, Asia-Pacific and Middle East delivered passenger traffic increase at +9.8% and +11.9% respectively. For the year-to-date, both Asia-Pacific and Middle East grew +10%.
President Kerrie Mather
In Asia-Pacific, domestic passenger travels continued to stimulate growth in India. Many airports reported growth in excess of 20% in September 2016 compared to the same month last year. Top runners include: Calcutta (CCU) +29.8, New Delhi (DEL) +24.1% and Hyderabad (HYD) +24%. In China and South Korea, growth in the current month was largely driven by gains in international passengers. Nanjing (NKG) led growth in China at +19.5% whereas Busan (PUS) and Seoul Incheon (ICN) led in South Korea at around +20%. In Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur (KUL) appeared to be gaining momentum and delivered an increase of +15.4% in September recovering from a period of slow growth since 2014. In the Middle East, Doha (DOH) and Muscat (MCT) were in leading positions
First Vice President Seow Hiang Lee
reporting passenger traffic increase at +22.6% and +17.1% respectively for the month. The largest hub in the region, Dubai (DXB) also generated double-digit growth at +10.3%. For the first nine months in 2016, overall passenger traffic growth in both AsiaPacific and the Middle East remained strong. With both India and China pushing to expand connectivity in domestic and international markets, and low cost carriers continue to stimulate demand in various markets; these give signs of optimism for the sector heading into the last quarter of 2016 against the backdrop of fragile economic conditions.
Second Vice President Fred Lam
Regarding air freight, despite global trade growth remaining weak, in September 2016 Asia-Pacific generated robust growth at +6.7% whereas the Middle East increased at +3.1%. For the year-to-date, Asia-Pacific and Middle East grew +2.5% and +4.1% respectively. In Asia-Pacific, the surge in volume in September was contributed in part by the strengthening of international freight market, and one-time factor such as the release and replacement of mobile devices such as the iPhone 7 and Galaxy Note 7. The top three freight hubs all delivered robust increase: Hong Kong (HKG) +7.2%, Shanghai Pudong (PVG) +7.4% and Seoul Incheon +8.1%. The results in the Middle East were mixed in September, air freight volumes at the largest hub Dubai (DXB) shrank 1% while Doha (DOH) continued to expand at a fast pace at +16.3%.
Second Vice President PS Nair
For the first nine months, overall air freight growth in Asia-Pacific improved gradually, especially in the third quarter where the sector experienced strong international air freight demand. On the other hand, the signals were mixed in the Middle East, while some markets appeared to be slowing down gradually for instance in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar remained a bright spot where robust growth continued to be observed.
Secretary Treasurer Emmanuel Menanteau
Note : 1. ACI preliminary passenger and freight statistics are based on a significant sample of airports that provide regular monthly reports to ACI. They represent approximately 60% of total passenger traffic and 70% of total freight traffic worldwide. Commentary, tables and charts are based on preliminary data submitted by participating airports and are therefore subject to change. 2. Size categories refer to the annual passenger traffic (in the last 12 months)
Immediate Past President Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad Abdul Majid
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2016 ACI Asia-Pacific WBP Airport Tour – Concluded with Success! The 2016 ACI Asia-Pacific WBP Airport Tour has just concluded with success. An initiative introduced back in 2011, this year marks the sixth airport tour and is the first time that invitation was extended to WBP members of ACI Europe. With the objective to provide a unique and mutually beneficial platform for both WBP and airport members where WBP can develop new business opportunities and airport members can explore service providers needed for their development projects, ACI Asia-Pacific created this WBP Airport Tour in 2011 and to this day is still the only ACI region offering this service. Previous WBP Tours included visits to airports in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Korean, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore and Thailand. This year, 13 executives representing 10 companies visited three airports in the Middle East - Muscat International Airport, Muscat (Oman) & Hamad International Airport, Doha (Qatar) and Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran (Iran) during the compact 3-day programme from 13 to 15 November 2016. Each day of the tour consisted of a meeting in the morning and a site visit in the afternoon. During the meeting, each host airport was invited to deliver a presentation on their organisation and development plans followed by presentations from the WBP on their services and capabilities. Both airport representatives and WBP were able to exchange ideas through the Q&A session that followed. Several WBP were also invited by the host airports to have individual business meetings after the tour. The group first visited Muscat International Airport managed by Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC). After the warm welcome by Sheikh Aimen bin Ahmed Al Hosni, Chief Executive Officer of OAMC, Mr. Nagy Abu Zeid, Senior Manager Strategic Planning and his colleagues shared OAMC’s development plans. The group also had the exclusive chance to visit the construction site of the new Muscat International Airport.
Regional Director Patti Chau
The group at Muscat – meeting with representatives from OAMC
In Doha, the group had an informative meeting with representatives of Hamad International Airport (HIA). Eng. Badr Mohammed Al Meer, Chief Operating Officer shared to the group that HIA prepares to expand its airport to accommodate the increase in its annual passenger traffic from 30 million to 53 million by 2020. The group then toured the airport terminal, transit hotel and airline lounge within the complex led by Mr. Abdulla Ali, Senior Manager, Terminal Operation.
The group at Hamad International Airport
The last destination of the tour was Tehran in Iran. Mr. H. Akramian, Member of the Board/Director for Airport Operation of Iran Airports Company and his team shared with the group on the business opportunities available in their development of Ahvaz Airport, Boushehr Airport, Esfahan International Airport, Mashhad International Airport, Mehrabad International Airport and Tabriz International Airport. In the afternoon, the group visited Mehrabad International Airport which is now mainly used for domestic flights.
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The group visited the Headquarter of Iran Airports Company
ACI Asia-Pacific and all tour participants are grateful to the three host airports for the productive meetings and warm hospitality. Mr. Paul Brugger, Founder and CEO of BizTweet, said, “Personally found it very good and hopeful business will ultimately come from it. I appreciate there is a lot of effort required to arrange such a tour – much appreciated, thank you.” To learn more about the ACI Asia-Pacific World Business Partners (WBP) programme, please contact the Regional Office at wbp@aci-asiapac.aero. >> Back to Top
New ACI Airport IT Security Benchmarking Tool – 50% discount until end of 2016
With the increased use and presence of technology within our industry, cybersecurity has become a key priority for all airports. ACI World Airport IT Standing Committee took the lead to develop an Airport IT Security Benchmarking Tool. This new tool offers airports the possibility to compare themselves with others in terms of their level of IT protection, a way to prioritise improvement initiatives and is based on the most recent ISO security standard. The tool offers two main features:
Risk assessment • The assessment consists of 106 questions which covers different control areas. • Once an assessment is completed by an airport, the IT Security Benchmarking Tool will provide a summary score for each of control areas, plus an over-all score for the airport. Benchmarking • The concept behind the benchmarking tool is to be able to compare an airport assessment to any other airport in the system or a set of airports filtered by region, country and demographic categories. The benchmarking tool could be run against all airports or specific airports. Useful facts about the IT Security Benchmarking tool : •
Number of questions: Contains 106 questions.
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ISO 27002 version: Based on the most recent version of the 27002 ISO security standards.
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Security features: The entire database collected is kept confidential and encrypted for security reasons.
Any airport can join free of charge for the rest of the year 2016. Commencing 2017, the annual cost will be US$12,000, but ACI will offer a 50% discount for 2017 to all airports signing before the end of 2016. If you are interested, please contact Serge Yonke, ACI World Senior Manager, Facilitation and IT at syonkenguewo@aci.aero. >> Back to Top To read previous issues of ACI Asia-Pacific Biweekly Newsletter, please click here. To subscribe/ unsubscribe, please click here. Members are welcome to send company news to ACI Asia-Pacific Communications Team for publishing in the newsletter. Tender news received from airport members will be emailed to WBP members of this region.
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