Dirk Salcedo
Aviation journalist at ch-aviation, covering airlines across the Asia-Pacific. Based in Davao, Philippines.
I spend a lot of time in fleet and schedule data, filings and regulatory documents, trying to understand not just what airlines are doing, but why. I'm most interested in how airlines actually work: aircraft deployment, networks, and the operational decisions behind them.
Before that, I founded and led Aviation Updates Philippines from 2013 to 2025, growing it from a personal project into the country's largest aviation news site. I studied computer engineering at Ateneo de Davao University.