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16 May - Tuesday, Day 1 |
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08.30 |
Registration, Networking and Coffee |
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09.30 |
Conference Chairperson’s Welcome |
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SESSION 1: VISION & OUTLOOK |
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09.40 |
Keynote Address: UAE Aviation Outlook 2025 UAE General Civil Aviation Authority GCAA, Deputy Director General, Omar Bin Ghaleb |
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10.00 |
Keynote Address: CAPA Global Airports Outlook 2025
CAPA – Centre for Aviation, Executive Chairman, Peter Harbison |
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10.30 |
Coffee & Networking |
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SESSION 2: INVESTING IN NEW AIRPORTS |
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11.15 |
Keynote: TAV Group TAV Group, Board Member, President & CEO, Dr. Sani Şener |
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11.35 |
Keynote: Turkish Airlines |
| 11.55 | Financing airport projects: Will they always be good investments?
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12.40 |
Keynote: Dubai Airports Masterplan |
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13:00 |
Welcome to Lunch and Special Anniversary Commemoration by Lunch Host |
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13.10 |
Lunch Hosted by Shell Aviation |
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SESSION 3: DISRUPTING THE AIRPORT MODEL |
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14.10 |
Keynote: Innovation and Redefining the Airport Role |
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14.30 |
Straight-talk: Are they listening? What airlines really want from airports LCCs, hybrids and full service airlines are meeting customer demand in very different ways. Do the airports that serve them really understand the diverging business models and providing infrastructure and services to maximise the opportunity. And, where the demands conflict, how do airports respond most effectively.
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15.15 |
Coffee & Networking |
| 15.45 | Keynote: Travel Defies Global Challenges - extreme market volatility and its effects on future travel demand ForwardKeys, CMO, Laurens van den Oever |
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16.00 |
Retail on board: When will inflight wifi threaten airport sales? Airport retail continues to expand, as airports become more adept at exposing their retailers. A global market which is worth anywhere from USD30-50 billion is highly attractive. Yet airlines have scarcely scratched the surface of this massive market. Now, as wifi spreads across aircraft where passengers can be 'captive' for 15 hours and more, the potential for tapping into the huge traveller spend suddenly blossoms. Add to that the growing sophistication of data analytics and the potential for selling to specific passenger targets lends an extraordinary dimension. It does not need to be a zero sum game though; there is a lot of upside. The market for online sales is unlimited, even marketing houses!
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| 16.45 | Keynote: Hamad International Airport, COO, Engr. Badr AL-Meer |
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17.00 |
Close of Conference day 1
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17 May - Wednesday, Day 2 |
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08.30 |
Registration, Networking and Coffee |
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09.30 |
Conference Chairperson’s Welcome |
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SESSION 4: THE BIG ISSUES |
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09.35 |
Low cost long haul to short haul connectivity – NextGen facilitation and technology
Hub airports, usually congested, often with 'waves' or banks of flights connecting and the need for complex connectivity infrastructure, are not always welcoming towards LCCs. LCCs typically want low costs, simple facilities and quick turnarounds. But then some LCCs are also reorienting towards connecting operations, as well as wanting more adequate facilities as they increasingly target business travellers. Some are also more keen to be housed within the same terminal as FSCs, to take allow their customers to connect. In these circumstances, airports are faced with constantly shifting and conflicting airline needs/demands, with an array of airline types, from pure LCC, through hybrid to full service carriers. The sort of issues that constantly arise are for example:
On a broader level:
Much will depend on the profile of airlines currently serving the airport – and what segments the airport is targeting for the future. This panel looks at this complex array of issues from various perspectives.
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| 10.15 | Keynote Address: European Commission, Deputy DG MOVE, Matthew Baldwin |
| 10.35 | Unshackling the biggest challenge to growth: Airport Capacity There are numerous airports that have capacity issues. Slots are key to the issue, but more slots can be created through ACDM, rapid exit taxiways, more effective use of stand planning and optimisation, time based separation, terminal throughput and turn times, slot management practices, incentivising upgauging, and many other measures. Sometimes the issue is not runway capacity at all, but the constraints are political or related to terminal or aircraft parking infrastructure.
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| 11.30 | Airlink Presentation |
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11.35 |
Coffee & Networking |
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SESSION 5: SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITY |
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| 12.05 | Keynote Address: Bespoke Capital Markets Products Macquarie Bank, Division Director, Head of Cross Divisional Projects, Corporate & Asset Finance, Peter Farthing |
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12.25 |
What do Brexit, Trump and rising nationalism mean for aviation? The US has a major problem with ageing infrastructure and it is much broader than just airports. But airports are conspicuous, especially to politicians who use them frequently.
The departure of the UK from the European Union, which could take place in 2019, opens up a can of worms with regard to the regulatory and economic environment that will follow it and how that will impact on both of the divorced partners and the wider world as well. The discussion – which may be an animated one – will revolve around topics such as traffic rights (what will replace Open Skies?), airline ownership (which can influence which airlines can operate out of UK and European airports and into them, post Brexit), interpretations of international law, and the return of Duty Free sales at airports. Moderator: CAPA - Centre for Aviation, Executive Chairman, Peter Harbison Panel Members:
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13.10 |
Summit Wrap: What have we learned |
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13.20 |
Lunch and Conference close |
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| 14.30 - 16.00 | Designing and operating an Airport City, or Aerotropolis; Case studies on developing airport activity The discussion will address the evolution and development of the airport city and the 'aerotropolis' examining the various success factors:
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