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Regional update

Communications manager, Samantha Solomon, reports on 2020's Green Airports Recognition and Young Executive of the Year award winners; a LinkedIn milestone and the formation of a Regional COVID-19 Taskforce.

VIRTUAL CELEBRATION FOR GREEN AIRPORT RECOGNITION WINNERS

Take a bow Kaohsiung International Airport Maharaj International Airport (Silver) (Kaohsiung City, Chinese Taipei), Rajiv Gandhi were also recognised. International Airport (Hyderabad, India) and Hyderabad-Rajiv Gandhi International Taoyuan International Airport (Taoyuan City, Airport gained Platinum recognition in the Chinese Taipei), for receiving the top 15 to 35mppa category ahead of Muscat Platinum award in our annual Green Airports International Airport (Gold) and BengaluruRecognition programme. Kempegowda International Airport (Silver).

The trio, who fittingly all received their While Kaohsiung International Airport accolades in virtual presentations in time for (Platinum), Adelaide Airport (Gold) and World Environment Day, were recognised for Sharjah Airport (Silver) triumphed in the their significant efforts in water management. category for airports handling less than

Six other airports received Gold or Silver 15 million passengers per annum. recognition for their efforts in the same area, “World Environment Day is a fitting day with everyone's collective initiatives to thank all participating airports for their essentially focused on waste water ongoing commitment and contribution to treatment, water harvesting, water recycling environmental protection,” said ACI Asiaand water reduction. Pacific’s director general, Stefano Baronci.

Taoyuan International Airport scooped “The Green Airports Recognition Platinum in the Over 35 million passengers programme fits perfectly into this context per annum category where Delhi-Indira by encouraging airport operators across the Gandhi International Airport (Gold) region and globally to share environmental and Mumbai-Chhatrapati Shivaji best practices.”

IN MEMORIAM

We are deeply saddened by the sudden and untimely passing away of Mr Faiz Khan, CEO of Fiji Airports and ACI Asia-Pacific Regional Board director. On behalf of the Regional Board, Regional Office and all ACI Asia-Pacific members, we extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and colleagues at Fiji Airports.

The Green Airports Recognition programme is designed to promote best practices to minimise aviation’s impact on the environment and recognise ACI Asia-Pacific's members for outstanding accomplishments in their environmental projects.

All submissions are available in the Green Airports Recognition 2020 publication, publicly available on the ACI Asia-Pacific website.

ACI ASIA-PACIFIC REGIONAL BOARD

PRESIDENT Seow Hiang Lee* (Changi Airport Group Pte Ltd, Singapore) FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Emmanuel Menanteau* (Cambodia Airports, Cambodia)

SECOND VICE PRESIDENTS HE Ali Salim Al Midfa (Sharjah Airport Authority, UAE)

SECRETARY-TREASURER Sheikh Aimen bin Ahmed Al Hosni* (Oman Airports Management Company, Oman) SGK Kishore (GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited, Hyderabad, India)

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad Abdul Majid** (GMR Airports Limited, India)

REGIONAL BOARD DIRECTORS

Mohamed Yousif Al-Binfalah (Bahrain Airport Company SPC, Bahrain)

Kjeld Binger (Airport International Group, Jordan)

Geoff Culbert* (Sydney Airport, Australia)

Gert-Jan de Graaff (Brisbane Airport Corporation PTY Limited, Australia)

Bon Hwan Koo (Incheon International Airport Corporation, South Korea) Chang Wan Son (Korea Airports Corporation, South Korea)

Akihiko Tamura (Narita International Airport Corporation, Japan)

Yoshiyuki Yamaya (Kansai Airports, Japan)

Kejian Zhang (Guangdong Airport Authority, China)

WBP REPRESENTATIVE Greg Fordham (Airbiz Aviation Strategies Pty Ltd, Australia)

Fred Lam (Airport Authority Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)

Yun Qin (Shanghai Airport Authority, China)

Jean-Michel Ratron (Tahiti Airport, French Polynesia)

Nitinai Sirismatthakarn (Airports of Thailand, Thailand) SPECIAL ADVISORS Suleiman Al Bassam (General Authority of Civil Aviation, Saudi Arabia)

Videh Kumar Jaipuriar Delhi International Airport Ltd, India)

Xue Song Liu (Beijing Capital International Airport Co Ltd, China)

YOUNG EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR

Central Japan International Airport’s Masahito Nakashima has won ACI Asia-Pacific’s Young Executive of the Year Award for 2020.

Nakashima, an assistant manager at the airport located 35 kilometres south of Nagoya, narrowly beat Naveen Raja Kannamala, an aero commercial manager at GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd, and security executive, Abhishek Kumar, from Mumbai International Airport Ltd, to win the prize.

Introduced in 2009, the ACI Asia-Pacific Young Executive of the Year Award is an annual research paper competition designed to encourage young talents in the Asia-Pacific region to contribute innovative solutions to current aviation industry issues. This year’s topic was the ‘Future of Airport Security’.

“The panel of judges and I were very pleased to see the high standard of submissions, as it shows that we have many bright, young talents in our region who are passionate about the aviation industry,” enthuses Sheikh Aimen bin Ahmed Al-Hosni, CEO of Oman Airports and secretary treasurer of ACI Asia-Pacific.

Nakashima received a $1,000 cash award and a full fellowship to the Airport Management Professional Accreditation Programme (AMPAP), a joint ACI/ICAO programme to develop the next generation of airport leaders in all functional areas of the airport business and promote the adherence to the highest professional standards and effective sharing of best managerial practices.

Under normal circumstances, the Young Executive of the Year is recognised during the ACI Asia-Pacific’s regional Assembly. As the event was cancelled due to the global pandemic, the winner received the award and certificate via post.

LINKEDIN CHANNEL REACHES 6,000 FOLLOWERS

ACI Asia-Pacific's LinkedIn page has an region as well as the progress we’re making at impressive 6,000 followers just 14 months after ACI Asia-Pacific to advance the interests of our being launched. Connecting with members and members,” said ACI Asia-Pacific’s head of the broader airport and aviation industry is a key communications and events, Jeannie Wong. strategic imperative for the association. “We are very grateful to all our followers for

“We launched the LinkedIn page in an effort joining our LinkedIn channel and making this to engage with our members and aviation milestone happen.” professionals beyond the legacy channels. In addition to the LinkedIn page, interested Through social channels, we can celebrate the parties can also follow ACI Asia-Pacific on Twitter many achievements of airports around the under the handle @ACIAPAC.

ACI ASIA-PACIFIC IN CONVERSATION WITH THE MEDIA

Aviation has been among the hardest-hit sectors Asia-Pacific and then the rest of the world, with as a result of the pandemic. To create awareness dramatic drops in traffic and revenue. of the severity of the situation, ACI Asia-Pacific “What we are facing now is the ugly,” noted turned to the media to provide regular updates Baronci, as he described estimates for year-end showing the rapid decline in traffic and provide traffic losses amounting to around 60% for policy solutions. Asia-Pacific airports and 53% for Middle East

In an online conversation with the regional airports. Combined, airports in these regions are trade publication Asian Aviation, the forecasted to lose $36.4 billion for during the association’s director general, Stefano Baronci, calendar year. "This is unchartered territory for painted a picture of the Asia-Pacific and Middle our members,” he concluded. East airport market through the analogy of the Since the outbreak of the virus, ACI Asiagood, the bad and the ugly. Pacific has engaged with numerous news media

The good was described in terms of the ten outlets including CNBC, South China Morning years of tremendous growth in the region Post and the Wall Street Journal and trade leading up to 2020. The bad started to take hold publications Duty Free News International, in January with the outbreak of the virus, first in FlightGlobal and International Airport Review.

REGIONAL COVID-19 TASK FORCE SPRINGS INTO ACTION

To deal with the rapidly evolving effects of the to high and the impact assessment was shared pandemic on airports, ACI Asia-Pacific gathered with policymakers and airport operators for together representatives from airport members reference in the formulation of policy to help and World Business Partners to facilitate the the industry recover. swift exchange of operational knowledge. “The ACI Asia-Pacific COVID-19 Task Force

The Task Force quickly pulled together an has proven to be a very effective structure to overview of common measures that airports were share knowledge and learn from each other,” deploying to prevent the spread of the virus. The said Tony Sewell, general manager of operations Task Force then turned its attention to document at Perth Airport and chair of the Task Force. the impact of the virus on airport operations and “The documents that have been produced business, identifying six main areas. are based on actual airport experiences.”

These areas were then assessed for the level All documents are available from the of impact of each measure, ranging from low Regional Office on request.