Asia and Pacific (APAC)

ICAO’s Asia/Pacific Regional Office conducted an interview with Captain Victor Liu, the Director-General of Civil Aviation Department of Hong Kong, China and the Chairperson of RASG-APAC. Q: Could you please briefly introduce…

Safety is crucial when upgrading air navigation systems. ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices require that any significant safety-related change to the air traffic management (ATM) system shall be effected after a safety assessment has…

In December 2020, ICAO organized an online global symposium that addressed innovation implementation in aviation. The ICAOTV broadcasts offered eleven sessions for the Asia Pacific region to address innovation implementation in different…

Visit the Asia/Pacific Newsletter page to discover more updates on the progress that took place in the second half of 2020 that are not shared below. The Thirty-first Meeting of the Asia/Pacific Air Navigation Planning and…

Following the decision of the CNS SG meeting/23, the first meeting of the APAC Ground-Based Augmentation System and Satellite-Based Augmentation System (GBAS/SBAS) Implementation Task Force was held through VTC from 23-24 June 2020 in which…

For the first time ever and understandably so, ICAO conducted the Regional Aviation Security Coordination Forum – Asia Pacific virtually due to the travel restrictions caused by the Covid-19 global pandemic. The objective of the Forum,…