ICAO World Bank Routes Global Celebrating New Kunming Airport, Billund drinks to landing Cimber- Strategy Summit opening 2011; Yunnan Province Sterling Aberdeen services PRODUCED BY AN OFFICIAL DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE 15TH WORLD ROUTE DEVELOPMENT FORUM BeijingDailyTuesday | 15th September 2009 Last night LAST NIGHT’S GALA DINNER, The Great 'haul' fittingly held in the seat of power at the magnificent Great Hall of the People, was the climax of this event, drawing together of the People China’s leading air transport industry bosses, including the head of CAAC, in the presence of the Mayor of Beijing. Following a programme of spectacular traditional entertainment, representing the many Chinese airports and regions that have showcased at the forum, the evening moved to the serious business of the Routes Airport Marketing Awards, supported by OAG. Of the four regional winners, Athens’ George Karamanos, director, commercial and marketing, was characteristically unable to contain his joy, punching the air on stage for the benefit of the cameras. “We Greeks are a passionate people. I accepted this award tonight, but this trophy is really for the people of Athens International, who have worked tirelessly to make our airport an award-winning marketing success,” he said. New services from Athens airport this year include 13 routes being operated by newcomer Athens Airways, plus new routes from Aegean Airlines to Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Istanbul, Paphos and Venice. Air Arabia to Sharjah, Baboo to Nice, easyJet Europe category – Winner: Athens to Manchester, Etihad to Abu Dhabi, LOT International Airport. Presented to George Karamanos, director, commercial and to Krakow, Sun Express to Izmir, Cimber marketing. Highly Commended: Brussels Sterling and Transavia.com to Copenhagen. and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Continued on page 3... We have: The ideal hub to Northern Europe Ads We want: More passengers and cargo A perfect location combined with outstanding efficiency and plenty of runway capacity has long made Copenhagen Airport the largest airport in Scandinavia. Today, a well-developed route network makes Copenhagen Airport the natural gateway to the north of Europe. Compared with other major European airports, Copenhagen Airport is relatively uncongested and has tremendous growth potential. The opportunity is here and now – if you want to be part of it, contact us right away. ScandinaviasHub.com or call +45 3231 2018 74535_CPH_210x297.indd 1 25/08/09 12.58 “Flying Godesses” perform in the Great Hall while honoured guests are made to quench their thirsts during the Drinking Song. OAG, supporters of the Awards, in the Great Hall with all the winners, brought Asia Pacific category - Winner: Christchurch International Airport. Presented to Gareth together by Mario Hardy, vice president, Asia Pacific, UBM Aviation (centre). Owen, general manager, marketing and business development. Highly Commended: Abu Dhabi International Airport and Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Africa category - Winner: Jomo Kenyatta/Nairobi Airport. Presented to Lucy Americas category – Winner: Dallas-Fort Worth. Presented to Megan Bozarth, Mbugua, general manager, marketing. Highly Commended: Entebbe/Kampala manager, marketing. Highly Commended: Aruba and Seattle. Airport and Julius Nyere/Dar-es-Salaam. BeijingDaily | Tuesday | 15th September 2009 3 The panel getting ready to discuss the question: “Can global air transport resume growth?” Boeing: 'People still prefer to turn left rather than right when Dr Fariba Alamdari, vice president market & value analysis, Boeing Commercial Airplanes confidently predicting that long-term growth in air travel would still boarding aircraft' average just under 5%. She also believes that people “still prefer to turn left rather than right when boarding a plane”, if only as a psychological status symbol. Experts agree that traffic growth is imminent A panel of experts at yesterday’s ICAO World Bank Routes Global Strategy Summit predicted that air travel growth was imminent but would lag behind economic growth by between three and four months. With increasing signs of economic recovery in several regions of the world representatives from Boeing, Qantas and Southwest Airlines predicted that passenger demand would soon start to pick up, though it may be the end of 2010 or early 2011 before global demand recovers to the peak levels of 2008. Freight demand however is unlikely to recover before the end of 2011 or early 2012. Dr Fariba Alamdari, vice president market Lee Lipton of Southwest and anna.aero’s Ralph & value analysis, Boeing Commercial Anker reminiscing about a previous meeting. Lee Airplanes revealed that the global financial once visited London Stansted, the headquarters crisis was now in its third stage, the of Go, where Ralph was head of network planning beginning of the recovery. Boeing’s latest before the airline was acquired by easyJet. BeijingDaily | Tuesday | 15th September 2009 4 TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 Hosted Networking Stand #25 theOAGtimes OAG – Your Partner for Future Success OAG was founded in 1929 as cancellations, delays and “Our investment in leading edge technologies and the un- “the offi cial Aviation Guide of gate changes. equalled knowledge and expertise of our people puts us at the airways”. We hope you’ve • global traffi c data – market the vanguard of database management. 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Markets that are expected to perform above the average are China, India, Latin America and the Middle East. Alamdari believes that it will be 2011 or even 2012 before airline orders for new aircraft return to the levels seen prior to the global crisis. Boeing also expects business traffic to return as “people still prefer to turn left rather than right when boarding aircraft”, as the psychological value of showing people Catching up: Dr Alamdari and anna.aero’s editor “I’ve made it” has not disappeared. Ralph Anker used to work together for several Qantas: two-pronged strategy helps with years at Cranfield University in the UK. capacity management Darren Peisley, executive manager Financial Crisis)/Swine Flu crisis had lasted capacity in markets where new entrants, commercial planning, Qantas Airways longer than previous ‘shocks’ but there such as Tiger Airways, are attempting to presented a graph