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
Boeing’s global forecast offers both good news and bad for the different regional markets in MEASA. In this week’s Newsround, Alan Peaford looks at the figures and questions how this will correlate with the impending shortage of pilots and engineers.
Aerospace

By Mark Pilling
Sustainability is very much on everyone’s lips right now and the aerospace industry is clearly stepping up its actions. Nowhere more so than at Airbus.
Air Transport

By Mark Pilling
The trans-Arabian Sea air routes from the Gulf to India and Pakistan are one of the busiest in the world. Pakistan’s market is significantly underserved but could all that change now that Air Arabia and the Pakistani conglomerate the Lakson group are teaming together to form a new low cost carrier Fly Jinnah.
Air Transport
Mark Pilling