Americas Aviation Summit 2015 Event Partners
 Host |
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) is charged with marketing Southern Nevada as a tourism and convention destination worldwide. The LVCVA also owns and operates the Las Vegas Convention Center and Cashman Center. With more than 150,000 hotel rooms in Las Vegas alone, and nearly 11 million square feet of meeting and exhibit space destination-wide, including three of the country’s largest convention centers, the LVCVA’s mission centers on attracting ever-increasing numbers of leisure and business visitors to the area. For a record 21 consecutive years, Las Vegas has been named the No. 1 trade show destination in North America, hosting 60 of the 250 largest trade shows in the U.S. Las Vegas hosts more than 22,000 meetings, conventions and incentive programs annually, ranging in size from 10 to more than 160,000. The Entertainment Capital of the World has evolved tremendously in recent years, and continues to capture the world’s imagination as the one destination where nearly anything is possible. Beyond the 24-hour-a-day casino excitement are some of the best restaurants, the most unique entertainment options, world-class sporting events, premier shopping and fantastic golf – not to mention the greatest variety of meetings venues and resort accommodations in the world. |
 Airport Host |
McCarran International Airport is located in the shadows of the world-famous Las Vegas Strip and is the gateway for nearly half of the people who visit the the Las Vegas area each year. Including arrivals and departures, McCarran hosted nearly 43 million passengers in 2014, making it the ninth-busiest airport in North America. With more than 30 airlines providing nonstop service to approximately 140 destinations, McCarran makes it possible for the world to experience one of its most alluring travel destinations. McCarran International Airport is owned and operated by Clark County, Nevada. |
 Cornerstone Partner
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Travelport is a Travel Commerce Platform providing distribution, technology, payment and other solutions for the $7 trillion global travel and tourism industry. With a presence in over 170 countries, approximately 3,400 employees and 2013 net revenue of $2.1 billion, Travelport is comprised of: - A Travel Commerce Platform through which it facilitates travel commerce by connecting the world’s leading travel providers with online and offline travel buyers in a proprietary business to business (“B2B”) travel marketplace. In addition, Travelport has leveraged its domain expertise in the travel industry to design a pioneering B2B payment solution that addresses the needs of travel intermediaries to efficiently and securely settle travel transactions. - Technology Services through which it provides critical IT services to airlines, such as shopping, ticketing, departure control and other solutions, enabling them to focus on their core business competencies and reduce costs.
Travelport is headquartered in Langley, UK. The company recently completed its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange and trades under the symbol “TVPT”. |
Global Destination Partner |
daa International provides the airport operational expertise and knowledge of daa Group to parties participating in airport transactions. It also provides strategic specialist advice to airports and long term concessionaires on key operational and revenue enhancing activities. Service specialties include: airport management contracting; airport operation set up and restructures; operational readiness and airport transition (ORAT); provision of key experienced international operation specialists; operating model design and efficiency improvement and capital pipeline prioritisation. daa International also has a specialised business unit – Dublin International Aviation Training Academy (DIATA) – that is focused on providing airport professionals with training and upskilling through a range of fully accredited training programmes. DIATA is accredited by ICAO, IATA and ACI and also has academic partnerships with a number of university level institutions in Ireland. Aer Rianta International ARI is a global duty free operator with an annual managed turnover of circa $1.2 billion with operations in 10 countries. ARI pioneered travel retail in Russia and the Middle East from the late 1980s and expanded to North America and Asia in subsequent years. ARI fully understands the importance of a compelling retail experience within the overall airport journey and how this experience is best incorporated and maximised with reference to the airport landlord’s operational requirements and commercial objectives. ARI offers a flexible range of operational models including concessionaire, joint venture partner and retail consultancy, which has helped ARI to forge successful partnerships with airports and airlines across the world. ARI adopts its product range, both in terms of premium brands and local specialities, to the specific markets where it operates, but has global expertise in the perfume and cosmetics and spirits categories. The company also uses its own award-winning team to design, build and fit-out its outlets to the highest contemporary standards. It also invests heavily in staff training, customer research and retail innovations to enhance the customer experience across all of our airport retail outlets. ARI is proud of its unique heritage and today the company remains keenly focused on its customers and the business and partnership opportunities that lie ahead. |
 Platinum Partner |
Amadeus is at the heart of the global travel industry. Our people, our technology and our innovation are dedicated to working with our customers and partners to shape the future of travel. Our ambition is to facilitate the entire travel journey from door-to-door, in the process improving the travel experience for over a billion people every year: from initial search to making a booking, from pricing to ticketing, from managing reservations to managing check-in and departure processes. Operating in 195 countries through a network of 71 Amadeus Commercial Offices (ACOs), Amadeus has a worldwide team of more than 12,000 people and keeps the travel sector moving by connecting key players: travel agencies, corporations, airlines, airports, ground handlers, hotels, railways and more. In 2014 over 500 million travel bookings were made via the Amadeus Selling Platform, including 40.7% of all travel agency air bookings made globally. Meanwhile almost 700 million passengers boarded airplanes using the Amadeus Altéa solution during 2014; we estimate that this will increase to close to one billion by 2017, based upon contracts signed for airlines to migrate to our system. The foundation of our approach is our innovative technology. We invested around $3.5 billion in R&D between 2004 and 2014. The group operates a transaction-based business model, which allows our customers to convert certain fixed technology costs into variable costs that vary with passenger volumes; it also links our revenue to global travel volumes rather than travel spending, thus reducing the volatility of our operating results. To find out more about Amadeus please visit our website. |
 Official Airline Partner |
On Nov. 11, 1929, Inter-Island Airways launched Hawai'i's first-ever scheduled interisland air passenger service using two Sikorsky S-38 amphibian propeller planes that carried eight passengers and two crewmembers, and had a top cruising speed of 110 MPH. In 1941, the company changed its name to Hawaiian Airlines. Along with being Hawai'i's first commercial airline, Hawaiian Airlines' 86-year history of service has featured several other notable achievements, including:
The carrier operates a fleet of 48 aircraft – 18 Boeing 717-200 jets for interisland flights in Hawai'i; 9 Boeing 767-300 and 21 Airbus 330-200 wide-body jets for transpacific and international service; and three ATR-42 for its new turbo prop service 'Ohana by Hawaiian that launched earlier this year. By the end of year 2020, Hawaiian plans to have 22 A330s total and 16 new narrow body A321 NEO aircraft. The airline will begin taking delivery of six new A330-800neo aircraft in 2019. |
 Platinum Partner |
Sabre’s Airline Solutions business offers a broad range of software and data solutions to help airlines market themselves, sell products, serve
customers and operate more efficiently. It provides both airline reservations systems, and a full suite of marketing and commercial planning
software and enterprise operations solutions. Its data-rich software helps airlines make smarter operational decisions, personalize and retail
their products to travelers. Airline Solutions services approximately 225 airlines including network carriers, hybrids and low cost carriers,
primarily through Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and hosted models, providing lower cost of ownership, flexibility, and scalability as airlines grow.
The company also serves approximately 700 other customers including airports, cargo and charter airlines, corporate fleets, governments and
tourism boards.
For more information please visit: www.sabreairlinesolutions.com |
 Gold Partner |
Established in 2004, CarTrawler is a leading technology company providing fully managed online car rental solutions to travel partners in 174 countries. Working across all travel industry segments and geographic markets, CarTrawler enables online travel retailers to add car rental to their portfolio of products and services, creating an additional revenue stream that requires no investment on their part. The business is led by CEO Mike McGearty and a highly experienced Executive Team headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. The CarTrawler technology platform enables partners to offer self-branded car rental to their own customers from 1,200 leading and independent car rental agents at over 30,000 city and airport locations worldwide. That’s more cars in more cities than anybody else. CarTrawler’s portfolio of partners includes more than 50 international airlines offering a combined total of over 300 million airline passengers car rental powered by CarTrawler. CarTrawler also provides car rental to online lodgings (hotels, rented accommodation and hostels), online travel agents, information websites (media, tourist authorities and airports) travel and transportation (car rental, rail and ferry websites) and retail travel agents. The company works with travel software providers Datalex and SITA who resell CarTrawler technology to airlines. For more information, visit www.cartrawler.com or email hello@cartrawler.com |
 Media Room Sponsor |
Americans for Fair Skies (A4FS) is a grassroots coalition established to restore fairness to our Open Skies policies. We are asking the U.S. government to take action on what has been established as the largest trade violation in history. Learn more at fairkskies.org |
 Global Payments Partner |
UATP
is the airline owned payment solution accepted globally by merchants for air,
rail and travel agency payments. UATP provides a true low-cost alternative to
the expensive cost of accepting credit card payments while still allowing
airlines to keep and build their customers' loyalty. UATP has sales in
excess of USD 14 billion worldwide, which produces millions of dollars in both
savings and revenue for its owners. UATP offers state-of-the-art data tools,
DataStreamSM and DataMineSM, which provide comprehensive
account details to Issuers and Corporate Subscribers for accurate travel
management. This helps make UATP the preferred form of payment for corporate
travel throughout the world. UATP also markets Insider’s Club, annual travel
insurance offered exclusively to travel industry employees.
UATP.COM |
 Platinum Partner |
Embraer S.A. is the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial jets up to 130 seats, and one of Brazil’s leading exporters. Embraer’s headquarters are located in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, and it has offices, industrial operations and customer service facilities in Brazil, China, France, Portugal, Singapore, and the U.S. Founded in 1969, the Company designs, develops, manufactures and sells aircraft and systems for the commercial aviation, executive aviation, and defense and security segments. It also provides after sales support and services to customers worldwide. Embraer has been present in Asia Pacific for over thirty-five years, since the introduction of the EMB110 Bandeirante – Embraer’s first commercial aircraft – in Australia in 1978. Embraer’s offices in the region are located in Singapore and Beijing. Collectively, there are more than 300 Embraer aircraft in the Asia Pacific and China region. Of that, there are nearly 200 commercial aircraft in service with 20 operators throughout Asia Pacific and China, with at least one Embraer commercial aircraft taking off every minute in Asia. Airlines in the region operating Embraer aircraft include Virgin Australia, Airnorth, Japan Airlines, Fuji Dream Airlines, Mandarin Airlines, Air Costa, NovoAir, Myanma Airways, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines. For more information, please visit www.embraer.com.br |
 Global Data Partner |
The world leader in aviation intelligence, OAG is relied upon globally for essential information and insight. Only OAG has the capability to deliver accurate, comprehensive and up-to-the-minute aviation data – and the expertise to convert this information into market-leading intelligence and innovative travel solutions. Unique trusted and respected within the industry for over 80 years, OAG is best known for its airline schedules and flight status databases, which holds future and historical flight details for over 900 airlines and more than 4,000 airports. OAG has been at the heart of the air transport industry since the start of commercial flights. Our data and products, unrivalled in their comprehensiveness and accuracy, have become the trusted source for the world's global distribution systems and now drives the internal systems of many travel portals, airlines, airports, air traffic control systems, aircraft manufacturers, and government agencies worldwide. OAG’s market leading global airline distribution and aviation analytics services are perfectly complimented by our advanced suite of multi-media products designed for airlines, airports and travel related businesses helping aviation analysts, route development teams, software developers, business travellers and travel arrangers make better business decisions. For more information, please visit oag.com |
 Global Destination Partner |
Finavia provides and develops airport services in Finland with focus on customer orientation, cost efficiency and safety. Finavia has a comprehensive network of 24 airports. This is why we can say: trust us and you are already there. Helsinki Airport is the leading long haul airport in Northern Europe with 15 million passengers a year. Thanks to its geographical location, Helsinki Airport provides the shortest routes between Asia and Europe, and with its 13 direct destinations, it’s the premium gateway between the two continents. The airport is designed for smooth travelling, offering a pleasant atmosphere, great services and easy transfers. Finavia’s northernmost airports are year-round open and tourism-friendly access points to one of Europe’s most unique destinations at the Arctic Circle – Lapland. With Lapland Airports unified, dense network we can promise: The North is near. For more information, please visit the website. |
 Supporting Partners |
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is the aviation industry’s global trade organization. For 70 years, IATA has developed the commercial standards that built a global industry. Today, IATA's mission is to represent, lead and serve the airline industry. Its members comprise 250 airlines (from 118 countries) - the world's leading passenger and cargo airlines among them - representing 84% of total air traffic. IATA seeks to improve understanding of the industry among decision makers and increase awareness of the benefits that aviation brings to global, national and local economies. It champions the interests of airlines across the globe, challenging unreasonable rules and charges, holding regulators and governments to account, and striving for sensible regulation. For more information, please visit iata.org |
 Supporting Partners |
Cowen and Company, the broker-dealer business of Cowen Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:COWN), provides industry focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, domain knowledge-driven research services and a robust sales and trading platform to companies and institutional investor clients. Sectors of focus for the business include healthcare, technology, telecommunications, information and technology services, aerospace and defense/industrials, consumer, energy, metals and mining, transportation and real estate. Founded in 1918, Cowen Group is headquartered in New York and has offices worldwide. |
 Supporting Partners |
Broad Perspective. Compelling Results. Serving the Aviation Community Since 1982 ICF International is a leading policy, management, and technology consulting firm with more than 70 offices worldwide. Our aviation practice was founded as SH&E in 1963 and expanded with the acquisition of AeroStrategy in 2011. Today we are one of the world’s largest aviation consulting organizations. We provide objective, independent commercial, inancial, technical, and regulatory guidance to aviation clients, including airlines, airports, lessors, inancial institutions, manufacturers, governments, and VIPs. From our oices around the globe, ICF helps aviation clients manage assets and operations, mitigate risk, and maximize return on investment. For more information, please visit icfi.com/aviation |
 Supporting Partners |
HEICO Corporation is a successful and growing technology-driven aerospace, industrial, defense and electronics company. For over 55 years, HEICO has thrived by providing customers with innovative and cost-saving products and services. HEICO's products are found on large commercial aircraft, regional, business and military aircraft, as well as on a large variety of industrial turbines, targeting systems, missiles and electro-optical devices. HEICO parts can also be found in the Mars Curiosity Rover and onboard the robotic probe, Philae. HEICO Parts Group (HPG) is one of the world’s largest independent suppliers of FAA-PMA approved engine and component parts for virtually every engine platform and ATA chapter, holding over 14,000 FAA approvals, and producing more than 500 new, highly engineered parts each year. HEICO Repair Group (HRG), which supplies flight-critical repair and overhaul services for aircraft accessory components, such as electro-mechanical, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, avionic, landing gear and structural aircraft sections, is one of the largest independent component MRO and asset management services providers in the world. HEICO Distribution Group (HDG), through its Seal Dynamics and Blue Aerospace subsidiaries, is a leading provider of FAA-approved component parts, and a leader in distribution for OEM replacement parts for both commercial and military applications. |
 Exhibitors |
Purdue University’s, Department of Aviation Technology, is recognized worldwide as a leader in aviation education and is gaining global recognition for its transformative education and training model known as iPOP (Industry-Purdue Opportunity Pipeline). Undergraduate programs include: Aviation Management, Aeronautical Engineering Technology, Professional Flight. In Fall 2015, new offerings include: Airline Management & Operations, Airport Management & Operations, Aerospace Financial Analysis, Unmanned Aerial Systems. Graduate programs include: Aviation & Aerospace Management, Aviation & Aerospace Management (online), Aviation Technology. The Department maintains an aircraft fleet of approximately thirty including three corporate jets, has an undergraduate enrollment of close to 700, and a graduate enrollment of approximately 90. The Department is housed at Purdue University Airport in West Lafayette, Indiana. A top public research institution, Purdue University strives to offer higher education at its highest proven value. Committed to affordability, the university has frozen tuition and most fees at 2012-13 levels. Committed to student success, Purdue is changing the way classes are taught with greater focus on faculty-student interaction and creative use of technology. Committed to world-changing research, Purdue has smoothed the pathways for faculty and student innovators who seek to make a global impact. Founded in 1869 in West Lafayette, Indiana, the university proudly serves its state as well as the nation and the world. More than 39,000 students are enrolled, representing all 50 states and 130 countries. |
 Exhibitors |
Radixx International, Inc., headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is now delivering its fifth-generation cloud-based Passenger Service System. Designed from inception as a merchandising platform for airlines to sell anything, Radixx International is the leading provider of next generation airline distribution solutions. Radixx Air is a complete enterprise system that caters to the needs of hybrid, low-cost, and traditional airlines including support for interlining, code sharing, and distribution through GDSs. Founded in 1993 and now hosting airlines on six continents, Radixx’ fully integrated, cloud-based solutions support all airline business models. For more information, visit www.radixx.com. |
 Philanthrophy Partner |
Airlink is a 24/7, rapid-response, disaster and humanitarian relief organization that links pre-qualified nonprofits with partner airlines for passenger and cargo transportation. Airlink’s rapid-response business model supports the delivery of the right aid to the right people at the right time. With a global air transportation network that is constantly expanding as crises and natural disasters continue to occur around the world, Airlink has supported humanitarian initiatives on every continent. Since its inception in 2010, Airlink’s airline partners have flown over 3,500 passengers and transported approximately 2,500,000 pounds of aid cargo. For more information, please visit www.airlinkflight.org. |
