Las Vegas World Aviation Forum in October to Feature
Executives
from North America, Europe, and Asia
Confirmed panelists
include executives from Alitalia,
America West, British Airways and other organizations
(LAS VEGAS – Aug. 10,
2005) – Las Vegas McCarran International Airport today announced
that its inaugural Las Vegas World Aviation Forum, to be held
October 24-26, 2005, already has confirmed panelists that include
top executives from the U.S., Europe and Asia.
“McCarran is very
excited about the enthusiastic response we’ve received from so many
influential industry leaders, who’ve already committed to
participating in the first Las Vegas World Aviation Forum,” said Las
Vegas Director of Aviation Randall H. Walker. “Clearly the momentum
for the Forum is gaining, as senior executives from around the world
recognize that this is going to be the right event – in the right
place, at the right time – for a candid discussion of the airline
industry’s major issues.”
Panelists already
confirmed include:
- John Byerly –
U.S. Department of State, Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Transportation Affairs
- Giorgio
Callegari – Alitalia, Vice President of Alliances and
International Relations
- Brett Godfrey –
Virgin Blue, CEO
- Andrew Herdman –
Association of Asia-Pacific Airlines, Director General
- Scott Kirby –
America West Airlines, Executive Vice President of Sales and
Marketing
- Nicole Piasecki
– Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Vice President of Business
Strategies and Marketing
- Jeff Potter –
Frontier Airlines, President and CEO
- Cliff Winston –
The Brookings Institution, Senior Fellow
More information
about the Forum, including registration information, is available on
the event’s Web site at www.LasVegasAviationForum.com, where
additional panelists will be announced in coming weeks and months.
The Las Vegas World
Aviation Forum will bring together industry leaders – including
executives from airlines, airports, vendors and governments – from
around the world. The Forum is informal, with no lengthy
presentations and a conversational format designed to foster
discussion, provoke debate and elicit ideas. The audience is
encouraged to participate, as some of the industry’s most important
stakeholders candidly discuss the day’s hot issues for commercial
aviation executives.
Among the topics to be discussed at the Forum in October:
- The similarly
between airlines and felines – Do airlines have nine lives?
- Are the costs of
operating pure hub and spoke systems a luxury the industry can
no longer afford?
- Now that traffic
has recovered from 9/11, SARS and the war in Iraq, is it time
once again to think about airport congestion as a bottleneck to
future growth?
The Las Vegas World
Aviation Forum is being co-organized by GCW Consulting, a strategic
consultancy for organizations in the aviation sector and a pioneer
of similar events in the United States and China.
Las Vegas provides an
exciting venue for the Forum. The world’s entertainment capital, Las
Vegas is the largest destination market in North America as well as
the United States’ fastest-growing metropolitan area.
About Las Vegas
McCarran International Airport
The sixth busiest
airport in the United States, Las Vegas McCarran International
Airport is the gateway to the world's entertainment capital, and
the 11th busiest in the world. In 2004, more than 40 million
people traveled through McCarran, most on their way to the
abundant entertainment, leisure and business facilities Las Vegas
offers world travelers. Fresh with $1.14 billion in infrastructure
improvements over the past decade, McCarran prepares for continued
growth in the future with more than $1.5 billion in additional
capacity and enhancement projects planned for the next ten years.
For more information, please visit www.mccarran.com.
About GCW
Consulting
GCW Consulting is a
strategic consultancy for organizations in the aviation sector.
GCW works for corporations and governments around the world, with
particular expertise in business development and counseling in the
People's Republic of China. Based in the Washington D.C.
metropolitan area suburb of Arlington, Va., GCW also has offices
in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and London, England. For more information on GCW Consulting, please visit www.gcwconsulting.com.
