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.
Angola’s flag carrier TAAG may gone into the black for the first time in its history in 2022, but it is struggling to expand and update its fleet, Eduardo Fairen Soria, chief executive of TAAG Angola Airlines told African Aerospace on the sidelines of the IATA AGM in Istanbul in early June.
State-owned Ibom Air is making a name for itself in the African market as a strongly-run Nigerian airline that is growing profitably with Airbus A220s soon to enter the fleet.
Allen Onyema, the charismatic founder and chief executive of Air Peace, is full of passion describing the many hurdles he has faced establishing his young airline.
