Airports
ACI and ICAO Call for Asia Pacific Airport Growth
Airport expansion in the Asia Pacific region is still being constrained by ill-considered regulatory hurdles, according to Airports Council International.
ICAO secretary general Fang Liu (left) and Airports Council International director general Angela Gittens both warned that airport capacity is not keeping up with traffic growth rates in the Asia Pacific region. [Photo: Neelam Mathews]
ICAO secretary general Fang Liu (left) and Airports Council International director general Angela Gittens both warned that airport capacity is not keeping up with traffic growth rates in the Asia Pacific region. [Photo: Neelam Mathews]

The Airports Council International (ACI) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) have joined forces to call for substantial development of airport infrastructure across the Asia Pacific region, and improvements in the way airports are regulated. In a conference held in the Indian capital New Delhi from December 2-4, ACI reported that passenger traffic is now growing at around 6.5 percent annually across the region and argued that regulators cannot hope to manage this growth effectively with regulatory constraints on traffic levels.