ASIA BEATS EUROPE IN CIVIL AVIATION, SAYS NZ AIRPORT CHIEF
June 30th, 2015
Asia has overtaken Europe as the world’s focus of civil aviation, according to the chief executive of Auckland International Airport. Adrian Littlewood told the International Transport Forum’s 2015 Summit that Asia was now the leading continent and that the growth in Asia’s aviation sector had “directly affected” New Zealand’s economy. He welcomed the liberalisation and growth within east Asian civil aviation: “In three years, three major Chinese carriers have started flying to Auckland. Previously, the number was zero.” Littlewood also pointed to ...
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