Mark Pilling

Managing Editor, Arabian & African Aerospace

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's award-winning Arabian & African Aerospace as well as Show Business, which is published at leading aviation events. He also presents on Aviation Week TV. 

Separately, he is also 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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Articles

By Mark Pilling
Uganda Airlines is seeking to lease two A320neos next year as long OEM lead times mean the aircraft it wants to order will not come until the end of the decade.
Airlines & Lessors

By Mark Pilling
After getting its first A350-1000, Ethiopian Airlines is working to fill gaps in its fleet through leases while weighing orders for both small narrowbodies and freighters.
Airlines & Lessors

By Mark Pilling
Mohamad El-Hout, his management team and his hardy carrier are in crisis mode, again, at Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines (MEA).
Air Transport
Mark Pilling