MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Nov. 13, 2012) - With the number of commercial flights poised to double between now and 2040, the global aviation community must agree on a coordinated strategic response to its critical capacity challenges at the ICAO 12th Air Navigation Conference (AN-Conf/12) in Montréal from 19-30 November 2012.
At risk as flight volumes increase will be the prompt access that people and businesses take for granted today to on-demand travel and tourism, next-day deliveries and many other critical day-to-day services readily available through the current air transport system.
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Press Conference & Lunch |
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12:30 - 19 November - Press conference |
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13:00 - 19 November - Lunch, hosted by the UAE |
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ICAO, 999 University, Montreal, QC |
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Press Conference - Conference Room A, 1st Floor |
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Lunch - Delegate's Lounge, 3rd Floor |
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Roberto Kobeh González, ICAO Council President |
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Raymond Benjamin, ICAO Secretary General |
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Nancy Graham, ICAO Air Navigation Bureau Director |
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Guenther Matschnigg, IATA Senior VP, Safety, Operations & Infrastructure |
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Angela Gittens, ACI Director General |
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Jeff Poole, CANSO Director General |
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Conference Chairpersons (to be named) |
Pre-arranged interviews
In addition to one-on-one interviews with the officials noted above, ICAO will also seek to provide advance coordination assistance with other key players present on the 19th, including:
| Michael Huerta, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) |
| Matthew Baldwin, Director Aviation and International Transport Affairs, EU |
| Patrick Ky, SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) Executive Director |
| Carey Fagan, FAA Executive Director for International Affairs |
| Alexis Brathwaite, President, IFATCA |
| Agnes Lukudu, Minister of Transport, South Sudan |
| (First visit to ICAO by a high-level official from South Sudan - ICAO's newest (191st) Member State) |
RSVP: Media accreditation is available through: www.icao.int/newsroom
Please be sure to stipulate which event/dates apply to your visit.
Additional background
As once-a-decade events, the stakes at ICAO's air navigation conferences are particularly high.
Hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of infrastructure and aircraft modernization planning will be impacted by these decisions over the next several decades, affecting multiple industries and socio-economic sectors and the day-to-day travel experience of billions of global citizens (aviation transports 2.5 billion passengers and $5.3 trillion worth of cargo annually).