REGIONAL UPDATE
APA Issue 3, 2021
Communications manager, Samantha Solomon, rounds-up the latest news and developments from ACI Asia-Pacific.
BE PART OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTION From the Pacific Islands stretching across Asia and into the Middle East, airports of all sizes are having to adapt to and manage the effects of climate change. Whether this means coping with the effects of extreme temperatures or rising sea levels, the threat of climate change to the aviation industry, and Asia-Pacific’s airports, is very real. Add on the increased frequency and intensity of weather systems, airports’ business operations are already often disrupted and adversely impacted.
The competition’s winner will receive a cash award of US$1,000 and a scholarship for the Airport Operations Diploma programme.
Taking measures to ensure that airports are less vulnerability to such disruptive climate conditions has become necessary to ensure business continuity, sustainability, and evolving operational needs.
And as an incentive to airports to nominate a candidate, ACI Asia-Pacific is offering the airport of the winning candidate an additional scholarship to any ACI Global Training Leadership and Management Professional Certificate Course, virtual or classroom (excluding travel fees).
This year, the Young Executive Award, an annual research paper competition, is calling on the creativity of young airport executives to contribute innovative solutions to the important topic, ‘Adapting Airports to
Papers are due on or before Friday, December 3, 2021, for assessment by a distinguished panel of judges. The programme details and the application form are now available on our website.
AVIATION SECURITY MANUAL AMENDED ACI has been working with policymakers to increase the influence of airports in the decision to adopt One-stop Security (OSS) between states. As a result of these advocacy efforts at regional and global level, some important – and favourable to airports – amendments have been made to ICAO’s Aviation Security Manual (Doc 8973). More specifically, a number of recommendations have been added to chapter 11.10 concerning the
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a Changing Climate in the Region’.
“recognition of equivalence of security measures – one-stop security”. Airport members are advised to take note of these new amendments and assess if they could be of help in advancing the development of OSS at national level. We encourage members to download the free-of-charge One-stop Security Toolkit, developed by ACI World to assist airports on the implementation of OSS.
