Addendum
Brunei hosts annual regional airline assembly
October 1st 2024
As air traffic in Indo-Asia-Pacific returns to pre-pandemic – or larger – volumes, airline presidents, CEOs and senior executives from the region’s airlines are gathering in Brunei Darussalam for the 68th Assembly Association of Asia Pacific Airlines Assembly of Presidents. Read More »
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Priorities for discussion are the accelerating drive for sustainability and a contemporary assessment of industry’s progress to global net zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Hosted this year by Royal Brunei Airlines, AAPA director general, Subhas Menon, delivered the Assembly’s keynote address. Brunei’s minister of transport and info-communications, Yang Berhormat Pengiran Setia Shamhary, has welcomed delegates to the invitation-only gathering. The International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) regional director, Tao Ma, will present ICAO’s view of issues of importance in the region – which is once again claiming the space of the largest airline market in the world.
A panel, “Is the sky the limit for their airlines?” will focus on the emerging markets of Vietnam, Thailand and their ASEAN neighbours. Members of a second panel, A Leaders Dialogue, “Air Travel of Tomorrow: Feet in the Present, Eye to the Future”, will be Malaysia Aviation Group managing director, Capt. Izham Ismail, Singapore Airlines CEO, Goh Choon Phong, Air Astana president and CEO, Peter Foster, and Thai Airways International president and CEO, Chai Eamsiri.
More than 150 delegates from the global industry, aircraft and engine manufacturers, suppliers and media, are attending the November 13-November 14 assembly.
