EBAA To Bring Bizav Players Together At November EBAA Week

LYON—The European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) is organizing the first EBAA Week in November, when it plans to gather the sector's community, from flight dispatchers to airframers.

The event will take place Nov. 16-18, seven months after EBAA canceled the European Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (EBACE), which was planned for June. While the EBAA Week is not intended to replace EBACE, it may provide a welcome platform of exchange for the European industry in 2026.

As part of the EBAA Week, Eurocontrol will host the Business Aviation Flight Dispatcher Day. The other three components of the event will take place in Brussels Airport's Skyhall: Air Ops for airports, ground handlers, trip planners, operators and others; a Business Aviation Safety & Innovation conference; and a European Business Aviation Summit (EBAS) for policy and regulatory conversation.

EBAA was already organizing the events separately and bringing them together will enable participants to build more connections, says Roman Kok, EBAA's head of public and industry affairs. Each participant may pick the parts they want. “Those parts are multipliers one for another,” Kok says. “I can have European policy-makers interacting with exhibitors.” Prices in Brussels may make the EBAA Week relatively affordable, he adds. As EBACE was held in Geneva, attendees were complaining about high costs.

Announced exhibitors so far include business jet manufacturer Bombardier and operator Jet Aviation. Capacity comprises 50 to 60 stands on the exhibit floor and 400 seats at the conference, Kok says.

At EBAS, he expects the European Union's Emissions Trading System to be a prominent theme, as well as a new metric for business aviation's carbon footprint and the aviation strategy the European Commission plans to publish by year-end. At Air Ops, control of operators against illegal flights may be a hot topic.