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If you work in the airline or travel loyalty sectors, World Aviation Festival in Lisbon should be on your radar for next month.
Taking place from 26th to 28th September at FIL (Lisbon Exhibition and Congress Centre), it is the best place this year to hear from senior management at the world’s leading airline groups. Over 5,000 attendees will listen to over 500 speakers.
World Aviation Festival also has a loyalty track to its conference programme. Whilst the organisers don’t make a big deal of it, I have been to the last two events and – if carved out as a separate loyalty event on its own – it would probably be the largest travel loyalty conference in Europe this year.
Head for Points is the Official Loyalty Media Partner for the event and will be around over the three days.
I’m running two article on World Aviation Festival over the next week. Today I want to look at the C-suite aviation leaders who will be speaking. Next week I’ll take a look at the travel loyalty speakers who will be presenting.
Who is speaking at World Aviation Festival?
The key CEO session is entitled “What is the future of the global aviation industry as we return to profitability”. It will feature some very well known names:
Sir Tim Clark, President, EmiratesLuis Gallego, Chief Executive Officer, International Airlines GroupWillie Walsh, Director General, IATAGuliz Ozturk, Chief Executive Officer, Pegasus AirlinesLuís Rodrigues, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, TAP AIR PORTUGALA different group of airline CEOs will be discussing “The future of cross-airlines partnerships, alliances, sustainability and digital transformation“. It includes:
Patrick Roux, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, SkyTeamAnko Van der Werff, President & Chief Executive Officer, SAS – Scandinavian AirlinesMaen Razouqi, Chief Executive Officer,Kuwait AirwaysAndre Viljoen, Chief Executive Officer, Fiji AirwaysJiri Marek, Chief Executive Officer, Air SerbiaStefanie Neumann, Chief Executive Officer, Lufthansa SystemsA Chief Commercial Offer panel will look at “Where do you see passenger behaviors landing after the post covid boom?“. It will feature:
Sophie Dekkers, CCO, easyjetShlomi Zafrany, Chief Commercial Officer, EL AL ISRAEL AirlinesOnur Dedekoylu, Chief Commercial Officer, Pegasus AirlinesAileen McCormack, Chief Commercial Officer, CarTrawler
Of the other sessions, I am particularly interested in:
a one-to-one interview with Tony Douglas, ex-CEO of Etihad and now CEO of the new Saudi mega-carrier-to-be Riyadh Air, hosted by John Stricklanda start-up airlines CEO panel, featuring the CEO’s of Norse Atlantic, Lift and Beonda low cost carriers CEO panel featuring, amongst others, Eddie Wilson who is CEO of Ryanair DACOther airline CEOs due to speak include Antonoaldo Neves (Etihad), Jeffrey Goh (Gulf Air), Robert Carey (President, Wizz Air), Max Kownatzki (SunExpress), Jude Bricker (Sun Country) and Alex Mans (FLYR)
Alongside the conference there is a large exhibition programme with airline suppliers showing off their latest products and technology solutions.
Whilst HfP will be focusing on the Airline Loyalty conference track, there are also dedicated tracks for Air Retail, Aviation IT, Aviation Marketing and Aviation Payments plus a Start-Up Summit, Green Skies sessions and the World Low Cost Airlines Congress
How to attend World Aviation Festival
If you want to join, meet and network with 5,000 other attendees, as Official Loyalty Media Partner HfP readers can get a 25% discount on a World Aviation Festival pass.
The standard price is €2,695 for the full three days – including the summit sessions on the 26th – or €2,295 for a Day 2 and Day 3 conference and exhibition pass. Prices rise by €200 from 1st September.
These are reduced to €2,020 and €1,720 respectively using our POINTS25 code.
Group discounts are available for multiple guests from the same organisation.
You can book your ticket here. The main WAF website is here.
Next week I will look in more detail at the loyalty speakers you will be able to hear. See you in Lisbon!
Title: Join aviation and loyalty leaders (and HfP) at World Aviation Festival, Lisbon, next month
Sourced From: www.headforpoints.com/2023/08/11/world-aviation-festival-2023-speakers/
Published Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:11:00 +0000
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