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.
The launch of Saudi Arabia’s AviLease in July 2022 signalled another significant move by the kingdom as it gears up its air transport sector to drive traffic in support of the ‘vision 2030’ strategy.
More than $1 billion owed to airlines is being blocked, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Now, the guilty parties are being named and shamed.
Air Tanzania’s revival under government ownership since 2016 was thrown off course by the pandemic but has not caused managing director and chief executive, Ladislaus Matindi, to waver from making it a “proper airline again”.
