Almost 2,000 delegates have confirmed their attendance at this year’s World Routes event and with five more weeks before the event opens in Abu Dhabi this number is sure to grow significantly.
Over 450 airline planners representing 250 airlines are now registered for the event including twenty Three of the world’s Top 25 carriers by ASK (Available Seat Kilometre) with strong presence from all geographical regions. The four major US legacy carriers will attend; Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, US Airways and American Airlines along with representation from Latin America in the form of TAM, Aeromexico and new Star Alliance member, COPA Airlines. From Asia, China Southern, China Eastern, Hainan Airlines and Air China are amongst those attending with Japanese majors, oneworld member Japan Airlines and Star Alliance carrier All Nippon Airways bringing large delegations to Abu Dhabi.
One of latest registrations is Qantas Airways, who will also deliver a briefing focused around its new business units. From Europe, the legacy market is strong with British Airways, Iberia, KLM, Air France, SAS, LOT Polish, Alitalia amongst those registered. The low cost carrier market from Europe is particularly well represented by easyJet, Norwegian, Wizz Air, Germanwings and Air Berlin.
Kenya Airways, Ethiopian Airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Royal Air Maroc are amongst the major African airlines that will be in attendance whilst registrations from the Middle East region include, Etihad, Emirates, Qatar Airways and Turkish Airlines. The ‘new look’ complete list of airline attendees can be found here.
Over 900 airport delegates have also registered to attend the event to date and with the registration received most recently from Airports Corporation of Vietnam the number of airports represented is nearing 400. Any carriers wishing to do business in Vietnam should not miss this opportunity to meet and should register their attendance at World Routes now!
Other airports who have confirmed their attendance during the last few days include Fredericton International Airport Authority, Djibouti International Airport, Rijeka Airport, Wellington International and Aeropuerto Internacional de Santiago who will be attending World Routes for the very first time since 2008.
Tourism authority representation continues to go from strength to strength with recent registrations from Jamaica Tourist Board, Municipality Of Trondheim, Instituto Panameno de Turismo (IPAT) and Charleston Area CVB.
If your delegate package includes a diary of pre-scheduled meetings and you haven’t made your requests yet make sure you get them in a soon as possible to avoid disappointment as diaries are filling up fast and scheduling for World Routes in Abu Dhabi will close on Friday 14thSeptember, just 3 weeks from now!
And requesting your meetings couldn’t be easier with Routes’ brand new online meeting requests website which allows all delegates, with an entitlement of pre-arranged meetings, to log –in and make their requests via their Routesonline profile, a feature reserved exclusively for airport delegates up until now. The new requests site also provides delegates with the perfect platform to prepare for their meetings at The 18thWorld Route Development Forum as, during the requesting process, access to Routesonline company profiles is available helping you to select the right companies to meet with by providing all the information Routesonline has to offer straight to the central meeting requests page.
For more information and to register for World Routes 2012 click here.
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