Top Aviation Industry Partners Support the
Las Vegas World Aviation Forum

Sponsors include Bechtel, Boeing, Citigroup, HMSHost, Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and Ricondo & Associates

(LAS VEGAS – Oct. 7, 2005) – Las Vegas McCarran International Airport today announced that it has secured the support of many of the aviation industry’s top partners as sponsors for the inaugural Las Vegas World Aviation Forum, to be held this Oct. 24-26 in Las Vegas.

Among sponsors for the Forum are:

• ARINC – The world leader in transportation communications and systems engineering.
• Bechtel – A global engineering, construction and project management company with more than a century of experience on complex projects in challenging locations.
• Boeing Commercial Airplanes – Global aircraft manufacturer with three quarters of the world’s fleet with nearly 12,000 jetliners in service.
• Citigroup Global Markets – Part of the Citigroup family. Citigroup is a pre-eminent financial services company, with some 200 million customer accounts in more than 100 countries.
• Commercial Aviation Today – a daily electronic newsletter for more than 8,300 airline, airport and aviation vendor executive subscribers around the world.
• Enterasys – Provides enterprise customers with innovative network infrastructure products, services and solutions that deliver the security, productivity and adaptability benefits required by Global 2000 organizations.
• HMSHost – World-renowned for creating innovative concession plans in travel venues, HMSHost has revenues of $1.6 billion and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Autogrill S.p.A.
• Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority – Charged with marketing Southern Nevada as a tourism and convention destination worldwide, and also with operating the Las Vegas Convention Center and Cashman Center.
• Lucent Technologies – partner of choice for the world's leading service providers, governments and enterprises by helping them create, build and maintain the most innovative, reliable and cost-effective communications networks and meet their customers' growing needs through the rapid deployment of new communication services.
• Pierce Goodwin Alexander & Linville (PGAL), a global engineering and architecture firm.
• Ricondo & Associates – A full-service aviation consulting firm providing consulting services that fulfill the needs of airport owners and operators, airlines, and federal and state agencies in facilities and operations planning, environmental planning, and financial planning.
• Symbol Technologies – A recognized worldwide leader in enterprise mobility, delivering products and solutions that capture, move and manage information in real time to and from the point of business activity.

“The support of so many of the aviation industry’s top partners is an honor and a testament to our event’s relevance in such a time of turmoil for the industry,” said the airport’s Director of Aviation Randall H. Walker. “We look forward to having these partners join us in playing host in two weeks to airline, airport and other aviation industry executives from around the world.”

Confirmed panelists for the event include:

• B. Ben Baldanza – Spirit Airlines, Chief Operating Officer
• Mark Dunkerley – Hawaiian Airlines, President and Chief Executive Officer
• Doug Parker – new merged US Airways, Chairman, President and CEO

More information about the Forum, including registration information, is available on the event’s Web site at www.LasVegasAviationForum.com.

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.

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.

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 41 million people traveled through McCarran, most on their way to the abundant entertainment, leisure and business opportunities Las Vegas offers for world travelers. With $1.14 billion in infrastructure improvements over the past decade, McCarran prepares for continued growth in the future with more than $2.4 billion in additional capacity and enhancement projects planned for the next five 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.