Routes
Asia is the only annual event designed to facilitate meetings between
senior airport executives and airline route decision makers as well
as tourism authorities from the entire Asia region.
The
event is expected to attract over 90 airlines from across the region.
The seniority of airline delegates is very high with CEOs and other
high level delegates from a variety of carriers, including Aditya
Ghosh, President of IndiGo along with Mr Sanjay Kumar, IndiGo’s
Chief Commercial Officer, Neil Mills, CEO of Spicejet and Hou Wei,
Chief Marketing Officer of Hainan Airlines.
Airlines
such as Air India, Jet Airways, Spicejet and IndiGo will attend with
very senior delegations along with Air India Express and JetLite. The
event also promises a large Chinese presence with Air China, Shenzhen
Airlines, Hainan Airlines, China Eastern and China
Southern Airlines all registered to attend.
The Low Cost sector will also be well represented with attendance
from Jetstar Airways, LionAir, The AirAsia Group and Tiger Airways
along with major carriers Qantas, Malaysia Airlines, American
Airlines, British Airways, Etihad, Japan Airlines and Philippine
Airlines. Other carriers who have signed up for the Indian event
recently include Singapore Airlines, Silk Air, GoAir, Emirates and
Spring Airlines.
Almost
220 airport delegates representing 210 airports have also registered
to attend the event to date. Recent registrations include key
airports and tourism authorities including GMR Hyderabad
International Airport, Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation,
Changi Airport Group, Queen Alia International Airport, King Fahd
International Airport, Abu Dhabi Airports Company, Dallas/Fort Worth
International Airport as well as the Indian Ministry of Civil
Aviation.
Taking
place on Sunday 17th March 2013, the Routes Asia Strategy Summit will
open Routes Asia in Mumbai. It will provide a valuable insight into
aviation across the region as panels of leading industry experts take
part in a number of moderator led discussions addressing key air
service development issues such as Developing Hubs in Asia and
Chasing the Tiger and the Dragon, which will look the fast-growing
outbound travel markets for China and India. The session Where next
for Asian Low Cost Carriers? will look at this rapidly evolving
segment of the Asian aviation market.
