Over
100 Airlines are expected to attend Routes Europe in 2013 and already
almost 200 airline delegates representing 96 carriers have registered
to attend the event confirming that this year is set to the biggest
gathering yet of Europe’s key decision makers.
Now
in its 8th year, Routes Europe is the only network planning forum for
the entire European region and the 2013 event, hosted by Budapest
Airport, will take place in Budapest, the beautiful historic capital
of Hungary. Routes Europe brings together over 800 delegates from
airports, airlines, tourism authorities and other industry
stakeholders from across Europe to discuss air service development.
The
Low Cost and Regional sectors will be well represented in Budapest
with Low Cost Carriers easyJet, Norwegian, Wizz Air, Germanwings, Air
Berlin, Volotea and Vueling amongst those registered to attend,
including senior representatives from airlines such as Wizz Air,
who’s CEO, Josef Varadi will attend, and Jet2.com’s recently
appointed CEO, Steve Heapy. The regional market is also well served
by carriers including Skywork Airlines, Cityjet, Darwin Airline,
Eurolot, Flybe, Blue Islands and TAROM.
For
airports wishing to meet 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 also well represented with confirmed attendance from
Aeroflot, S7, Rossiya and UTAir. The event will also see a first time
attendance from Reykjavik based WOW Air along with out of region
carriers UPS, SriLankan Airlines and Nordwind.
In
addition to the Face-to-Face meetings at the core of the event there
will be a strong programme of airline briefings taking place 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 tremendous rate in terms of airline
participation with airlines afforded the time and choice to meet
airports, not just to discuss potential new air service development
but also to meet existing airports to discuss route performance.
