Looking at the board of judges, I wonder if the names are qualified.
Med is from the Philippines, but where are the others come from?
Moreover, Southeast Asia plus the Oceania is too much of a coverage imo, and the variety of designs and styles is just abundant.
Indonesia and Malaysia are neighbours, but it doesn't make them have similar design style and symbolities.
What if someone make a design for an airline from Thailand or Cambodia. Who can check if the words and letters used are correct?
How about the choice of airline titles? What if we choose something that we think has a good meaning, but actually it's bad in its original place?
Cambodians love their Angkor Wat and they use it in every logo they have. But someone won't win this competition using Angkor Wat because it's nothing compared with the complicated tribal pattern from Fiji or batik pattern from Indonesia, although Angkor Wat is the most Cambodian thing that a Cambodian can think of.
To be honest, if I make an Indonesian livery and you guys say it doesn't look Indonesian or it's not as good as other countries, I will be very angry, because I'm an Indonesian.
This is different with the previous competition to make Arab/Middle East design, because we really had an Arab for the judge. This also different because in the previous competition, there is a cognate style that can be compared.