The guiding theme of the World Aviation Summit is to review the course of airline liberalisation, and the various players and concepts that will influence it. It is a fragile shoot, with many who would see it die.
We seek a consensus view on where the industry will be in a year’s time and which countries will lead the growth and at the evolving business models that will play a part in it.
In an innovative and challenging feature, a panel of leading airline CEOs will construct the foundations for a new airline equipped to survive in today’s turbulent environment, with assistance from a seasoned airline expert or two.
We ask some prominent Antwerp jewellers how the industry took on low cost competition and survived by being innovative. Are there lessons to be drawn for the airline industry?
“Trip Friction” is becoming a real issue for airlines seeking to retain and nurture their key business travellers. This CEO Challenge will be confronted with the evidence of thousands of frequent flyers compiled by an industry expert. Our industry leaders will analyse and respond.
In an exclusive industry breakfast briefing, leading airline network planning heads will provide insights into their near and longer-term route plans. Their presentations will be followed by a round-table discussion of the art and science of effective network planning.
A high-level session will investigate world’s best practices in airline retailing and the prospects for more of the same. As airlines embrace merchandising as a necessary, revenue-increasing practice, what does the road ahead have in store and how can airlines – and the travel industry as a whole – evolve and thrive?
With a fresh European administration in Brussels, we welcome the new Director General of DG MOVE to outline future directions for aviation; this will be followed by an intense examination of connectivity, ownership and control and fair competition in the EU.
We dedicate our two final full sessions to the tangled issues of global liberalisation and to the role of aviation unions as influencers, for better or for worse. These are guaranteed to be contentious as well as content-filled, with extensive audience participation encouraged.
All of CAPA’s sessions are very high level panel sessions, moderated by industry experts, where real ideas emerge and where frank discussion thrives. Our audiences are also of a very high level, producing a unique standard of thought leadership and innovative ideas.
CAPA World Aviation Summit, 20-21 November (View agenda)
CEOs from around the world gather to review the strategic, commercial, growth, regulatory and earnings prospects for the year ahead and to debate the hot issues that are garnering the CEOs’ attention. The main theme is: "The essential question: Where does airline liberalisation go from here?"
CAPA World Corporate Travel Innovation Summit, 19 November (View agenda)
The summit deliver a deep focus on the biggest category of corporate travel spend: air. The event will feature the views of key corporate travel buyers, airlines, travel management companies and the wider industry.
CAPA Aviation Awards for Excellence, 7:30pm, 20 November
CAPA will decorate this year’s leading airlines and airports in the world’s pre-eminent aviation strategy awards at a glittering yearend gala ceremony.
2013 World Aviation Summit
Front row left to right: Willie Walsh (CEO, IAG), Peter Elbers (COO, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines), Tim Clark (President, Emirates) and Abdul Wahab Teffaha (Secretary General, Arab Air Carriers Organisation)
