With over ten years of experience writing for the travel trade, Ed was appointed Editor of Routes News in early 2016 and has overseen its relaunch with a new look and stronger content offer for the network development community.
In our regular Routes News series we take a look at the people that attend Routes events and find out more about them, their jobs and the current industry issues impacting them.
Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport currently ranks as the fourth largest aviation hub in mainland China and significant new route additions since it hosted Routes Asia in 2012 have included a direct British Airways link to London Heathrow, a Qatar Airways service to Doha, and a first direct flight to the United States with a United Airlines operation to San Francisco.