Managing Editor, Arabian Aerospace, African Aerospace & Show Business
London
Summary
Mark Pilling is a journalist, editor and publisher who has been covering the global airline and aviation industry for more than 25 years.
He is Managing Editor of Aviation Week Network titles Arabian Aerospace and African Aerospace as well as Show Business, which is published at leading aviation events. He also leads Times Aerospace TV and is a conference director for the Aviation African and Aviation India events.
In the 1990s and 2000s he was the editor of several leading industry titles, including Airline Business, Airports International and Airport World. He went on to become publisher of the FlightGlobal aviation brands, featuring flightglobal.com, Flight International and Flight Daily News, and helped establish FlightGlobal—now Cirium—as a leading aviation data and information business.
Mark is a frequent moderator for events run by Airports Council International, IATA, Aviation Services Association and Farnborough International.
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Regulators across the region are generally supportive of the growth aspirations of the business aviation industry across the Middle East, MEBAA panelists say.
