ACI Asia-Pacific Year in Review 2020
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ACIAsia-Pacific Yearin Review 2020 ACI Asia-Pacific Year in Review 2019 ACI Asia-Pacific advances the collective interests of the region’s Table of airports with governments and Contents international organizations, and leads, facilitates and promotes professional Leadership Messages 4 excellence in airport management and Our Board 6 operations. ACI Asia-Pacific in Numbers 8 COVID-19 Response 10 ACI Asia-Pacific Year in Review 2020 15th ACI Asia-Pacific General Assembly 14 Copies of this publication are available from: Communications Department World Business Partners 15 Airports Council International Asia-Pacific Unit 13, 2/F, HKIA Commercial Building Communications 16 1 Sky Plaza Road Hong Kong International Airport Our Priorities 17 Hong Kong SAR Email: [email protected] 01. Aviation Security 18 Website: www.aci-asiapac.aero 02. Operational Safety 22 03. Airport Economics 25 04. Environment 28 05. Human Resources 30 Our Members 32 Disclaimer Our World Business Partners 36 No subscriber or other reader should act on the basis of any information contained in this publication without referring to applicable laws and regulations and/or without obtaining appropriate professional advice. Although every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. ACI Asia-Pacific shall not be held Our Team 38 responsible for loss or damage caused by errors, omission, misprint, or misinterpretation of the contents hereof, including for contributions provided by third parties. Furthermore, ACI Asia-Pacific expressly disclaims all and any liability to any person, whether a purchaser of this publication or not, in respect of anything done or omitted, and the consequences of anything done or omitted, by any such person through reliance on the contents of this publication. No part of this publication may be reproduced, recast, translated, reformatted or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or use of any information storage and retrieval system, without prior written permission from ACI Asia-Pacific. Cover photo courtesy of Hamad International Airport. © 2021 Airports Council International Asia-Pacific. All rights reserved 2 3 Message from the Message from the President Director General For much of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic roles and responsibilities, they also generously shared The year 2020 will go down in history as the and replace quarantine with testing protocols. We impacted most aspects of life. The airport industry’s knowledge and experiences with one another in grimmest ever faced by the aviation industry. complemented our advocacy with ongoing media operations and businesses were certainly not spared fighting the crisis. This Year in Review highlights some outreach to keep the dire state of the industry at the from the challenges and devastation. Our colleagues of their efforts, for which the ACI community is ACI Asia-Pacific started its 15th anniversary year with forefront of the public and regulators. at Asia-Pacific’s airports were the first to feel the grateful. an ambitious strategic plan for Asia-Pacific and Middle impact of COVID-19, which quickly extended to East airports to shape the future of the aviation Globally, ACI launched the Airport Health industry globally. Within weeks, the strategic plan Accreditation programme to demonstrate that the Middle East and beyond. By now, we know that We are thankful for airport members’ and World recovery will take longer than desired and we must and the entire industry were in a state of turbulence airports are taking every measure necessary Business Partners’ ongoing engagement despite very lasting the entire year. to create a safe travel environment. stay agile to survive. difficult circumstances at your airports and business settings. Your commitment translates to the Regional In the face of plummeting traffic and evaporating The 2020 Year in Review documents the initiatives These times of crisis are when the value of Office’s ability to continue supporting us. revenues, the impact of the pandemic immediately and activities across the economics, environment, associations has become more evident. ACI pushed our advocacy efforts into high gear. We human resources, safety and security policy areas to Asia-Pacific promptly stepped-up pertinent My thanks to fellow Regional Board Directors for rapidly stood up a COVID-19 Task Force to document represent your interests and to position our sector communications and advocacy efforts with regulators the leadership they have provided. The solidarity, the impact on our members’ operations, using that for recovery. and relevant parties on a range of operational co m mi t me n t a nd e ng a ge me n t t hey h ave d e mon s t r at e d information to inform our advocacy efforts with and business issues, including frontline facilitation will help our industry come out of this stronger and global industry associations and national regulators. In this most turbulent of years, we are grateful for responses at your airports, financial, economic better for the future. your trust in our association. impacts, slot waivers, COVID-testing and vaccines. In the firm belief that the industry needed to present a united front, we teamed up with regional associations Seow Hiang Lee Stefano Baronci Our committees and subject matter experts have representing airlines, retail, travel and tourism to Director General President urge governments to provide relief, open borders also worked harder and gone the extra mile this past ACI Asia-Pacific ACI Asia-Pacific year. Not only have they kept up with their respective 4 Leadership Messages 5 Regional Board EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President First Vice President Second Vice President Second Vice President Secretary-Treasurer Immediate Past President Seow Hiang LEE * Emmanuel MENANTEAU H.E. Ali Salim AL MIDFA SGK KISHORE * Sheikh Aimen bin Ahmed AL HOSNI * Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad ABDUL MAJID # Changi Airport Group (Singapore) Pte Ltd. Cambodia Airports Sharjah Airport Authority GMR Hyderabad International Oman Airports Management Company GMR Airports Limited Singapore Cambodia U.A.E. Airport Limited Oman India India Regional Board Directors Mohamed Yousif Kjeld BINGER * Geoff CULBERT * Gert-Jan DE GRAAFF Fred LAM * Dato’ Mohd Shukrie Quoc Phuong Yun QIN Jean Michel RATRON Nitinai AL-BINFALAH Airport International Group Sydney Airport Brisbane Airport Corporation Airport Authority Hong Kong MOHD SALLEH NGUYEN Shanghai Airport Authority ADT - Aéroport de Tahiti SIRISMATTHAKARN Bahrain Airport Company SPC Jordan Australia PTY Limited Hong Kong SAR Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad Airports Corporation China French Polynesia Airports of Thailand Public Co., Ltd. Bahrain Australia Malaysia of Vietnam Thailand Vietnam SPECIAL ADVISORS In Memoriam Chang Wan SON Akihiko TAMURA Yoshiyuki YAMAYA Kejian ZHANG Greg FORDHAM Eng. Suleiman AL BASSAM Videh Kumar Xue Song LIU * Faiz KHAN Korea Airports Narita International Kansai Airports Guangdong Airport Authority Airbiz Aviation Strategies General Authority of Civil Aviation JAIPURIAR Beijing Capital International Fiji Airports Corporation Airport Corporation Japan China Pty Ltd Saudi Arabia Delhi International Airport Ltd Airport Co. Ltd Fiji Korea Japan WBP India China * World Governing Board Member # Regional Advisor on World Governing Board As of December 2020 6 Our Board 7 59 ACI ASIA-PACIFIC Airports Accredited 117 regular members IN NUMBERS 37 Airports Accredited 604 31 airports Operated members awarded for 2019 achievements 84 awards presented for 2019 achievements 49 Countries / Areas 94 Virtual ICAO meetings attended 95 World Business 10K+ 1 1 K+ Partners social media Social media followers Engagements as of December 2020 8 ACI Asia-Pacific in Numbers 9 COVID-19 RESPONSE In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ACI Asia- IATA and the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) Pacific formed a COVID-19 Task Force of 38 airport was sent to the Ministers of Transport and Health of members and World Business Partners (WBP) 13 countries in the Asia-Pacific region calling for the with the main mission of developing and sharing relaxation of quarantine requirements by adopting operational best practices in the prevention of the the ICAO’s recommended risk assessment and spread of communicable diseases at airports and testing framework. providing updates on latest regulatory directives and international travel restrictions in the region. ACI Asia-Pacific also supported a Joint Declaration by the Assembly of Presidents of AAPA, along with Mr. Tony Sewell, General Manager Operations, IATA. Perth Airport was appointed Chair of the Task Force. The association made multiple press statements calling for the replacement of quarantine with The Task Force played a very important role in testing protocols. providing timely inputs and insights in backing up ACI Asia-Pacific’s advocacy with governments in Advocacy on border reopening relation to the pandemic. Advocacy efforts were At regional level, ACI Asia-Pacific collaborated with supplemented with proactive media relations. different regional industry associations to advocate for a safe restart of international air travel when the epidemiological conditions improved. ACI Asia-Pacific worked closely with the ICAO regional offices to facilitate a closer collaboration between public health and civil aviation authorities in the reopening of borders. To that end, ACI Asia-Pacific assisted with the organisation of an Asia Pacific ICAO and World Health Organisation (WHO) webinar, the first of its