This afternoon’s Routes CIS Strategy Forum, which will mark the opening of formal proceedings at this year’s event, will attempt to highlight some of the key issues that are impacting the commercial aviation business across the Russian Federation and the CIS region. With a high profile list of speakers the content has been specially developed to provide a unique insight into the business with informed moderators ensuring the key issues are not glossed over.
The first discussion session Accessing the CIS Market: bilateral and Barriers to Entry will discuss how carriers gain traffic rights to the CIS, what are the barriers to entry, the opportunities for low cost carrier growth and how quickly the regulatory environment can change. This session will include panellists such as Mr Alexander Schroll, Director Traffic Development for Munich Airport, Mr Emre Pekese, Director of Sales for Pegasus Airlines, Mr. Jeyhun Efendi, Head - Commercial Operations, Flydubai, Ms Marina Bukalova, Vice President, TCH Russia and Mrs Marianna Galagura, Head of INternational Sales Department, Ural Airlines.
Ms Marina Bukalova will also present a session entitled “Air Transport Traffic in Russia –main trends” which will cover traffic trends across the domestic market, European Russia, Central Asian, Siberia and Russian Far North.
Session two is entitled Attracting the Outbound CIS Leisure Market. This session promises to give a valuable insight into the Russian tourist market as the discussion will focus on the needs of Russian tourists, how large is the outbound market and how do destinations attract Russian tour operators and airlines.
Mr. Dmitry Bugov, President, Ural Tourism Association will moderate and will be joined by panellists: Ms Gulnura Narmatova, Charge D’Affaires, Consulate General of the Kyrgyz Republic; Ms Svetlana Garipova, Head of International relations Committee, Ekaterinburg City Administration; Ms Natalya Aleshina, General Director, Russian Express, Urals Office and Mr Albert Garipov, Technical Director, ExpoCom; Mr Michael Maltsev, Executive Director, Ural Tourism Association; Mr Sergey Buzko, General Director, MIR Travel and Mr Jun Zhao, Head of Administration, Consulate General of the People's Republic of China.
Investment, Infrastructure & Improvements – Airport Development in the CIS will be the third and final session of the afternoon. This interesting discussion will be moderated by Ms Yolanta Strikitsa, Managing Director of Strikitsa Consulting and will explore some of the airport infrastructure and facility developments that are taking place within the region and on the importance of future airport investments as air traffic in the region increases. The panel will include Mr Sergey Likharev, General Director of Basel Aero Airport, Mr Oleg Shpagin of Krasnoyarsk Yemelyanovo Airport, Mr Alexey Bogatyrev, Head of Master Planning Department, Ekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport and Mr Victor Gorbachev, General Director, Association: ‘Airport’ of CIS.
The specially developed content and the interactive format will ensure that the Forum is a popular element of the event. Open to all Routes CIS delegates it is expected to be a thought provoking and lively afternoon and promises to be a stimulating and enjoyable start to this year’s Routes CIS event.
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