With just a year to go before the UK is scheduled to formally leave the European Union, the reality of what this will mean for airlines with significant British operations or ownership is still far from clear.

Few airline markets have shown as much movement as Germany over the past year, amid the jockeying for position that accompanied first the attempts to save Air Berlin and subsequently the backfilling of capacity the Oneworld carrier vacated.

At the recent Routes Asia event, it appeared that the future growth of Asia s airline industry is all but assured, but there are concerns that governments and airport authorities may not be investing fast enough to keep up.