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.
There are dozens of outstanding challenges at government, industry and airline level as the Middle East and Gulf deliberates a strategy for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
The three-minute news round-up from the aerospace and defence markets across MEASA this week looks at ballistic missile attacks on Dubai thwarted by Saudi Arabia’s defence forces; and how snow in Istanbul led to groundings and angry passengers.
Gaël Méheust, chief executive of engine maker CFM talks to Mark Pilling about the company’s current focus on its RISE programme – Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines – and its goal to bring increasingly efficient and sustainable engines.
