‘Develop once, deploy everywhere’: Honeywell Aerospace’s Anthony Florian on APAC

Three months after its spin-off from Honeywell and Nasdaq listing, Honeywell Aerospace is looking to Asia Pacific for much of its next phase of growth. Leading that effort on the aftermarket side is Anthony Florian, President of Global Commercial Aftermarket.

Florian oversees a business that generates more than $8 billion in annual revenue and has content on over 65,000 aircraft in service worldwide. 

During day two of MRO Asia-Pacific 2026 in Singapore, Florian spoke exclusively to AeroTime about life as a standalone company, Honeywell Aerospace’s landmark IndiGo deal and how it is working through supply chain pressures.

“A lot of the global growth is coming from the Asia Pacific market,” Florian said.

A sharper focus after the spin-off

The spin-off from its parent company, finalized on June 29, 2026, left Honeywell Aerospace as a Phoenix-based company with more than 36,000 employees and over 10,000 customers, trading under the ticker HONA. For Florian, the biggest change has been in focus.

“Having our own board of directors, our own management committee, and being a standalone public company that’s focused on the aerospace industry is very exciting for us,” he said. “It provides a lot of opportunity for us to get a razor-sharp focus on the aerospace and defense industry, on what we have to do now, but also what we have to do for our long-term future.”

Keeping aging fleets flying while bringing in new technology

Florian described the commercial aftermarket as “vibrant,” with supply chain resilience at the top of Honeywell Aerospace’s agenda. That means growing its network of partners through channel localization and expanding its own industrial capacity, so it can support fleets as airlines keep aircraft in service longer.

Alongside that, Honeywell Aerospace is focused on upgrading existing platforms to extend their life, and, further out, introducing new technologies.

“We’re talking to customers about all those phases of our product lifecycle,” he said.

How IndiGo’s 810-aircraft order deepens Honeywell Aerospace’s footprint in India

In July 2026, during the Farnborough International Airshow, IndiGo selected Honeywell Aerospace’s avionics and auxiliary power units (APUs) for its order of 810 Airbus A320neo family aircraft. The company described it as its largest-ever new-aircraft equipment win.

Florian said India is leading much of the region’s growth, and that Honeywell Aerospace already has a strong engineering base in the country to support it.

“We’re very happy to be expanding our partnership with IndiGo in terms of our extended capability with its weather radar, multimode receivers and other content that we have in FMS, to be able to bring technology infusion to the forward-fit line, which Airbus continues to produce at increasing rates,” he said.

Gaining market share is important, Florian explained, but the company is particularly proud of bringing new technology into a fast-growing market.

Japan, South Korea and Australia drive defense growth as Honeywell Aerospace bets on local presence

Asia Pacific is also an important region for Honeywell Aerospace’s defense business, with Japan, South Korea and Australia driving much of its recent growth. According to Florian, the region is one of the company’s most dynamic markets in both commercial and defense.

He noted that customers in Asia Pacific and EMEA share many of the same expectations, particularly around localized support and long-term relationships.

“For us, it’s important to be here and be present,” he said.

The company’s technology strategy also plays to its strengths in the region.

“Our technology set is very much develop once, deploy everywhere, where we take core technologies like our inertial reference systems and have both commercial applications as well as defense applications,” Florian said.

That model, he explained, builds more resilience into the supply chain and makes it easier to find partners that can scale across industries.

Turning the corner on supply chain constraints

In September 2026, Honeywell Aerospace CEO Jim Currier said about 70 suppliers still had quality or delivery problems, down from hundreds in 2022. Currier also said the company would consider acquisitions to bring outsourced work back in-house.

The company is seeing what Florian called “green shoots of progress.” Over the past several years, Honeywell Aerospace has invested more than $1 billion in its supply chain through insourcing, multi-sourcing, sending its own people and capital to suppliers, and firming up long-term agreements.

“We’re turning the corner on several of those supply situations to be able to support the market growth, both on the defense and the commercial front,” Florian said.

The executive acknowledged that a handful of challenges remain, adding that Honeywell Aerospace is committed to deploying capital to overcome its most constrained suppliers, and is tracking specific milestones to ensure it has the stability needed to meet long-term growth targets.

The next five years in Asia Pacific

Over the next five years, Florian expects demand to stay strong, pointing to passenger growth as well as resilient business and general aviation activity.

Honeywell Aerospace will continue to support existing airframes and upgrade the installed base, while also winning positions on new aircraft through deals such as the one signed with IndiGo.

“We see growth on multiple fronts, led by Asia Pacific, led by the Indian subcontinent, where there are good growth dynamics with such a concentrated population,” Florian said. “That’s going to continue to be a growth story for us here in APAC.”The post ‘Develop once, deploy everywhere’: Honeywell Aerospace’s Anthony Florian on APAC appeared first on AeroTime.

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