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World Regional Airports Congress: 25 September 2008
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09.00 | Keynote address: Growth, expansion, costs and customers - overcoming the core challenges of regional airports today
- Understanding the changing dynamics of the air transport industry
- How should airports position themselves – regional or low cost?
- Capacity considerations
- Identifying and tackling limits to growth
- How to manage infrastructure expansion and airport development
- Ideas on how to reduce costs
- The Stockholm Skavsta Success Story
- What does the future hold for low cost and regional airports?
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09.30 | Keynote address: Facing the green challenge: what should regional airports be doing?
- What does the environment challenge look like at an airport
- What is the scope of environment at Stansted
- Using a collaborative approach
- Case studies used at Stansted
- Next steps
- Key messages
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09.50 | Keynote address: Achieving commercial excellence
- How can regional airports attract more customers?
- Understanding airline needs – what is it they want from airports and how can you deliver?
- Strategies for enhancing commercial performance
- Key ideas on how to maximise revenue
- What will be the airport trends of the future? How can airports position themselves to take advantage?
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10.10 | Keynote address: Achieving growth and dealing with its implications
- Growth trends in secondary and regional airports and their implications
- Strategies for achieving growth with minimum disruption
- Case study: Cardiff International’s experience and what others could learn from it
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| | Spencer Birns, Head of Aviation Relations, Cardiff International Airport
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10.30 | Q&A with keynote speakers
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11.00 | Networking coffee and tea break
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| MAXIMIZING AVIATION REVENUE |
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11.30 | Panel discussion: Airport business development symposium: Attracting airline business
- Marketing your airport to airlines – what are the key strategies?
- How can airports grow their market share of LCCs?,of legacy carriers? of charter business?
- Working with tourism authorities and government to achieve commercial objectives
- Where is the next opportunity and how can you be in prepared to take advantage
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| | David Leitch, Group General Manager, Business Development, Infratil Airports Spencer Birns, Head of Aviation Relations, Cardiff International Airport
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12.30 | Networking Lunch
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| INCREASING NON AVIATION REVENUE |
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13.30 | Case study: Maximizing the opportunities in non aviation revenue
- Strategies in how to expand non aviation services
- Tips for improving non aviation revenue in space constrained airports
- Making the most of retail space
- Generating revenue from partnerships and alliances with hotels and car rentals
- Other ways to raise revenue: Parking, real estate, advertising … what are the limits?
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| LOW COST TERMINALS |
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14.00 | Low cost terminals: Lyon St Exupery– a case study
- Getting small frequency LCCs in through low cost terminals
- State aid for low cost terminals - Is it a level playing field?
- How should airports go about it?
- Regulatory issues – working within the rules of the game
- Challenges from legacy carriers or existing customers
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| | Lionel Flasseur, Directeur Marketing et Politique Commerciale, Aéroport Lyon-Saint Exupéry
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15.00 | Speed Networking
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| LOW COST LONG HAUL |
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15.30 | Low cost long haul and regional airports: assessing the opportunity
- What opportunities will the Boeing 787 dreamliner and Airbus A350xwb aircraft bring to regional airports
- How can regional airports breaking into long haul markets
- Attracting long haul carriers
- Hub bypass – opportunities emerging for regional airports because of capacity constraints of larger airports
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16.30 | Conference close
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