Gallery: MRO Europe 2024 Conference Coverage, Day Two
October 23, 2024
Data Driven
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Director of Fleet Data Services, Daniel Williams, paced the floor sharing slides about fleet and engine retirement projections with data from Aviation Week's 2025 Fleet & MRO Forecast.
The Line Up
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A critical update on the teardown market was part of the first panel discussion on the conference agenda. The panelists talked about the increased lifespan of mid-late life aircraft and the impact on retirements. They also considered the expectations of aircraft and engine availability, along with airline demand for used serviceable material, and the economic decision to tear down assets.
From left to right, the session's moderator, Richard Brown, managing director of NAVEO Consultancy; James Bennett, COO of AerFin; David Bradley, CEO of AOG-247; Rudy Bryce, president and CEO of CFM Materials; Tommy Hughes, CEO of VAS Aero Services; and Lee McConnelloogue, CEO of ecube.
Sugar Rush
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Delegates enjoyed the break time snacks just outside the conference room.
Audience Taking It All In
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The audience enjoying day two of the conference and ready to take part in straw polls and posed questions about artificial intelligence, teardowns and current engine availability.
Discussing Hot Topics
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Lindsay Bjerreregaard, Aviation Week Network's managing editor of MRO, chaired a panel discussion on implementing advanced technologies.
Next to Lindsay from left to right are Claude Houver, VP of innovation and digital solutions at Airbus Customer Services; Wouter Kalfsbeek, unit leader for big data engineering at AFI KLM E&M; Karine Lavoie-Tremblay, director of commercial engines digital transformation at Pratt & Whitney; and Dominik Nixdorf, head of corporate strategy and market analytics at Lufthansa Technik.
Experts Share Knowledge
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The last panel of the day talked about managing downtime and future fleet plans, with an aero-engine focus. From left to right: Jonathan Berger, managing director of Alton Aviation Consultancy; Alan Jones, executive director of MRO at ITP Aero; Will Pitcher, SVP of sales, marketing and customers for airlines and fleets at StandardAero; Derrick Siebert, VP of engine services operations at Lufthansa Technik; and Praveeni Witharana Nelson, team and fleet manager for powerplant at SAS.
On day two of the conference at MRO Europe 2024, delegates listened to industry experts discussing important topics and offering solutions to MRO industry challenges.
The topics up for discussion were aircraft retirements, current engine availability, fully leveraging artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies.
Scroll through the gallery to discover more about today's conference.
