ACI World Economics Standing Committee
The ACI World Economics Standing Committee, covers airport charging systems; noise and passenger service charges; consultation with users; development of revenues from concessions and other non-aeronautical sources; peak period pricing; financial statistics; passenger and cargo forecasting: airport financing and ownership; state taxation; the economic implications for airports of such issues as air transport liberalization and consolidation, competition between air transport and other modes of high speed transport; the economic impact of airports and; route development.
The Committee is currently developing a framework for airport financial benchmarking and is formulating policies on the high costs of rigid economic regulation of airports. It is also working with IATA to develop examples of best practices in the field of airport and airline relations.
Chair: Christopher Poinsatte (DFW)
Vice-Chair: Stewart Steeves (Bahamas)
Past Chair: Waleed Youssef (TAV Holdings)
| REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES | ||
| Africa: Lucy Mbuga (Nairobi, Kenya) Prince Chintimbwe (NACL, Zambia) | Asia Pacific: Peck Hoon Lim (Singapore) Sidharath Kapur (DIAL) | |
| Europe: Arina Freitag-Terpsma (Fraport) George Kalimassias (Athens) | Latin America-Carribean: Joselino Guilherme Araújo (Infraero, Brazil) Andres Ortega Rezk (Eldorado, Bogota) | |
| North America: Marsha Stone (Indianapolis) Leo Fermin (SFO) - suggested | ||
| MEMBERS AT LARGE (10 Places) | WORLD BUSINESS PARTNERS (5 Places) |
| Jae Hee Park (KAC, South Korea) | Christopher Smith (Seabury) EU |
| Koichi Okawara (Narita) | Romano Pagliari (Cranfield University) EU |
| George Karamanos (ADAC – Abu Dhabi) | Peter Mackenzie-Williams (Leigh Fisher) NA |
| Idan Maymon (Tel Aviv, Israel) | Susan Warner Dooley (HNTB) NA |
| Patrick Heck (Denver) | Hoi See Song (Plaza Premium Lounge), APAC |
| John Weerdenburg (Ottawa) | |
| Brian Gabel (Toronto) | |
| John Buckner (Salt Lake City) | |
| (2 vacancies) |
Board Liaison: Declan Collier (London City)
Committee Secretary: Rafael Echevarne (ACI World)
Regional Office Observers:
Christopher Koppchen (ACI Europe)
AJ Muldoon (ACI North America)
Shun-Leung Wong (Asia-Pacific)