In six weeks time, Europe’s aviation community will meet at Routes Europe, happening 12-14 May. Over 100 Airlines are expected to wait Routes Europe in 2013 and already almost 200 airline delegates representing 96 carriers have registered to wait the development confirming that this year is determined to be the most important gathering yet of Europe’s key decision makers.
Now in its 8th year, Routes Europe is the one network planning forum for the full European region and the 2013 event, hosted by Budapest Airport, will happen in Budapest, the pretty historic capital of Hungary. Routes Europe brings together over 800 delegates from airports, airlines, tourism authorities and other industry stakeholders from across Europe to speak about air service development.
“The large collection of airlines and the seniority of the delegates attending Routes Europe in Budapest, demonstrates the price that the development can offer to Europe’s largest airlines,” says Paul Winfield , Airline Relations Director for Routes. “Being in a position to source key data and intelligence for brand spanking new routes, and having the ability to meet their existing partners to be sure the success of existing routes under one roof is invaluable,” he added.
The Less costly and Regional sectors could be well represented in Budapest with Cheap Carriers easyJet, Norwegian, Wizz Air, Germanwings, Air Berlin, Volotea and Vueling amongst those registered to wait, including senior representatives from airlines corresponding to Wizz Air, whose CEO, Josef Varadi will attend, and Jet2.com’s recently appointed CEO, Steve Heapy . The regional market can be well served by carriers including Skywork Airlines, Cityjet, Darwin Airline, Eurolot, Flybe, Blue Islands and TAROM.
For airports wishing to fulfill with European network carriers, attendees include Air France, British Airways, Iberia, Lufthansa, SAS, CSA Czech Airlines, Turkish Airlines and Swiss International Airlines, whilst out of region presence comes from American Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Air Transat, Etihad Airways and Emirates. The CIS market is likewise well represented with confirmed attendance from Aeroflot, S7, Rossiya and UTAir. The development may also see a primary time attendance from Reykjavik based WOW Air in conjunction with out of region carriers UPS, SriLankan Airlines and Nordwind.
In addition to the Face-to-Face meetings on the core of the development there’ll be a powerful programme of airline briefings occurring in Budapest including Lufthansa delivered by Director of Network Planning, Dr Sebastien Hollmeier and CCO of Darwin Airline, Christian Schneider amongst others.
Routes Europe continues to grow at a huge rate in relation to airline participation with airlines afforded the time and selection to satisfy airports, not only to speak about potential new air service development but additionally to satisfy existing airports to debate route performance.
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