DAA To Host International Aviation Conference In April
DAA is delighted to host this year’s CAPA Airlines in Transition Summit on April 10/11 in County Wicklow. This year’s Summit will be opened by Ireland’s Minister of Tourism, Transport and Sport, Leo Varadkar TD.
“Ireland has a pivotal role in the history of international aviation and continues to punch above its weight in the sector,” said DAA Chief Executive Kevin Toland. “In that context, we are delighted to again welcome airline executives from across the globe to Dublin and Wicklow for the 2014 Airlines in Transition Summit.”
Now in its third year, Airlines in Transition has developed as the leading forum for high level discussion of the key transformational issues confronting the worldwide commercial aviation industry.
Attracting CEOs from a wide variety of airlines of all business models, the summit, over two days, will explore new ways of looking at national ownership controls and the right of establishment, as well as the global alliances, new JV models, so-called ‘egocentric partnerships’ and virtual airlines – as carriers search for durable models for the future.
Other key sessions include Hybridisation and the operation of dual (and increasingly multiple) airline brands, as well as connectivity between LCCs and Full Service carriers both technologically and over airports. The agenda also covers the growing role of loyalty programmes/FFPs and understanding their data opportunities, and the Summit will close with a session exploring the possible source of future ‘shocks’ for the industry.
The highly anticipated Airlines in Transition Roundtable Dinner – hosted by CNN’s Richard Quest – will feature an entertaining but thought-provoking panel of airline CEOs and experts to debate “Are governments keeping up with aviation’s public interest issues?”.
Confirmed speakers at this year’s Summit include:
Mark AnÃ…¾ur, CEO, Adria Airways
Christoph Mueller, CEO, Aer Lingus
Atanas Christov, Founder and CEO, Affinia Volo Inc
Martin Gauss, CEO, Air Baltic
Conor McCarthy, Co-Founder, AirAsia
Olivier Jankovec, Director General, ACI Europe
Nawal Taneja, Business Author and Airline Strategist
Christine Ourmieres, CEO, CityJet
Eric Venter, CEO, Comair
Andrew Pyne, Senior Partner, Concuros Partners
Kevin Toland, CEO, DAA
Tewolde GebreMariam, CEO, Ethiopian Airlines
Maurizio Merlo, CEO, Etihad Regional
Matthew Baldwin, Director Air Transport, European Commission
Raja Azmi, CEO, flynas
Emirsyah Satar, CEO, Garuda Indonesia
Giorgio De Roni, CEO, GoAir
Willie Walsh, CEO, International Airlines Group
Peter Oncken, CEO, InterSky
Michael Cawley, Deputy Chief Executive & Chief Operating Officer, Ryanair
Bjorn Kise, Chairman and Founder, Norwegian Air Shuttle
Chris Kroeger, Senior VP, Sabre Travel Network
Giulio De Metrio, Deputy Chief Executive & Chief Operating Officer, SEA Milan
Jim Peters, CTO, SITA
Gareth Williams, Co-founder and CEO, Skyscanner
Alex Cruz, CEO, Vueling.
And more…
For more information about Airlines in Transition, please visit: http://www.capaevents.com/ehome/75940/
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