- What are the implications for airlines of China’s Belt and Road plan?
- How will China’s Belt and Road strategy affect the aviation market – in both short and long term?
- What is in the next Five Year Plan for Belt and Road?
- Are China’s airlines adapting their strategies to align with the “road”?
- Agri-nomics Australia, Director, Barry Parsons
- Cathay Pacific, CEO, Rupert Hogg
- LOT Polish Airlines, President & CEO, Rafał Milczarski
- SriLankan Airlines, CEO, Suren Ratwatte
- How do the region’s smaller carriers differentiate and compete against the big three Gulf carriers?
- Do Middle Eastern airports and air navigation service providers have the capacity to accommodate the growth ambitions of the region’s carriers?
- What lessons can be learnt from airport privatisation here and abroad?
- Finding the right service proposition for domestic and long haul – traditional full service or unbundled?
- What strategies need to be adopted to meet the distributions unique distribution challenges eg around late bookings?
- How to reconcile the aim of open skies with creating a market for a national airline?
- AACO, Secretary General, Abdul Wahab Teffaha
- Gulf Air, CEO, Krešimir Kučko
| TUESDAY 5 JUNE 2018 | |
| 16:00 | Registration, Networking & Coffee |
| 17:00 | Chairman's Welcome |
| 17:05 | Presentation by Embraer Embraer, President & CEO, Commercial Aviation, John Slattery |
| 17:15 | Twilight Session: The Big Issues What are the big issues confronting airlines today? Politics, regulation, security, environment, new competition, disruption in distribution, costs and revenues…. No-one ever said the airline business was easy. And it doesn't get any easier. It's often hard to know which issues to prioritise. But the job of a CEO is to do just that. They can't all be top priority, so which ones to deal with and when - while trying to make money. We ask the industry's leaders how they address this complex challenge. Moderator: CAPA - Centre for Aviation, Executive Chairman, Peter Harbison Panel: Avianca, CEO, Hernán Rincón IAG, CEO, Willie Walsh LOT Polish Airlines, President & CEO, Rafał Milczarski WTTC, President & CEO, Gloria Guevara |
| 18:30 | Pre-dinner Drinks |
| 19:30 | CEO Roundtable Dinner The Importance of Friends, Alliances, Partnerships and others A high level and often light hearted discussion of the major trends in partnerships and where alliances are heading with host CNN Anchor Richard Quest. Avianca, CEO, Hernán Rincón Cathay Pacific, CEO, Rupert Hogg Embraer, President & CEO, Commercial Aviation, John Slattery IAG, CEO, Willie Walsh Jet Airways, Chairman, Naresh Goyal Kenya Airways, Group MD & CEO, Sebastian Mikosz Qantas Airways, CEO & Managing Director, Alan Joyce Regional Express, Deputy Chairman, Hon John Sharp WestJet, President & CEO, Ed Sims WTTC, President & CEO, Gloria Guevara |
| WEDNESDAY 6 JUNE 2018 | |
| 08:00 | Registration |
| 09:00 | Chairman's Welcome |
| 09:05 | 'Meeting of the minds' with CAPA - Centre for Aviation, Executive Chairman, Peter Harbison Qatar Airways, Group CEO, H.E. Akbar Al Baker IAG, CEO, Willie Walsh |
| 09:40 | Airline CEO Q&A with CAPA - Centre for Aviation, Executive Chairman Peter Harbison Virgin Australia, Group Executive, Rob Sharp |
| 10:05 | Airline CEO Keynote: African Perspectives Kenya Airways, Group MD & CEO, Sebastian Mikosz |
| 10:20 | Panel: Belt and Road Initiative and Aviation China’s Belt and Road Initiative strategy essentially follows in concept the old Silk Road, a trading route linking East Asia with Europe and other regions along the way. As trading links are re-established and expanded, the One Belt seeks to accelerate and enhance the natural trend. China is helping fund much of the infrastructural development of the new “road”, either directly or through loans, and the geographic scope of the road extends southwards into the Middle East and Africa. There is a natural presumption that enhancing trade routes will be accompanied by a liberal access market regime. The strategy has not attracted a great deal of attention in aviation terms, but it would seem likely that market access principles will filter down into the aviation sector. This panel takes a high level look at current and future potential impacts for airlines, Chinese and non-Chinese. Moderator: AAPA, Director General, Andrew Herdman Panel: |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break & Networking |
| 11:30 | Airline CEO Q&A with CAPA - Centre for Aviation, Executive Chairman, Peter Harbison Cathay Pacific, CEO, Rupert Hogg |
| 11:50 | Airline CEO Keynote: Infrastructure Constraints in Europe LOT Polish Airlines, President & CEO, Rafał Milczarski |
| 12:05 | Airline CEO Keynote: CS300 Carries the Growth of Baltic Aviation airBaltic, Chairman of the Board & CEO, Martin Gauss |
| 12:20 | Panel: What are the big issues facing Middle East carriers and where does the future lie? Like their peers elsewhere, carriers in the Middle East face ongoing challenges to their business models. Competition from ambitious new entrants such as the Chinese carriers are threatening the big three Gulf carriers’ position as the chief global superconnectors, who are themselves slowing down as they recalibrate their market positioning. The region’s airlines also have to contend with challenges unique to the Middle East, such as declining oil revenues, regional conflict and overcrowded airspace. We ask Middle Eastern airline CEOs how they are navigating through the current commercial and operating challenges and the future outlook for the region’s aviation industry. Panel: |
| 13:00 | Welcome to Lunch Lithium Technologies, General Manager APAC, Andrew Sandes |
| 13:05 | Lunch Hosted by Lithium Technologies & Close of Summit |