If you are interested in financial, political and technological aspects of air transport, then the upcoming Aircraft Finance & Commercial Aviation in Geneva from 23 to 26 March 2010 may be of interest for you. This event is little known outside the air transport community and has made Geneva one of the hubs of air transport finance as well.
Like the previous editions the 24th will bring together professionals from the manufacturers, the operators and the financial industry. Several hundred specialists will discuss the recent events. More important, they try to forecast the future.
Even during the recent financial crisis the often complex transactions for new investments have remained crucial for the air transport industry as a whole.
One of the topics of the upcoming conference will be the enforced “greening” of air transport. Again, the stakeholders have chosen International Geneva as their operational centre. The Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) is bringing together the various initiatives on fuel saving, CO2 reduction, biofuels and cleantech into a coherent programme. At the recent Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen air transport was the only sector which spoke with one voice and submitted a coherent long term strategy.
Unlike what popular perception (and leftist propaganda!) suggests, air transport is far more conscious about the responsibility for our common future. Why does it remain the favourite scapegoat?
Daniel Stanislaus Martel
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