SITA summit: Cybersecurity top priority for airlines and airports

SITA hosted the Asia Pacific Air Transport IT Summit in Singapore on 18/19-Apr-2018, with CAPA - Centre for Aviation participating as media sponsor. The summit attracted IT executives from airlines and airports throughout Asia Pacific, as well as other key stakeholders.

For several years SITA hosted an IT Summit in Brussels but decided to bring the event to Asia for the first time this year to be closer to a fast growing and increasingly important market. An IATA presentation at the summit projected that the Asia Pacific market would triple in size over the next 20 years.

IATA expects China will overtake the US in 2022 as the world's largest market, based on total passenger traffic (domestic and international). India is projected to rise from seventh largest to third largest air transport market over the next 20 years, and Indonesia is projected to rise from tenth largest to fourth largest.