Connection Commercial and Private Aviation
From its beginnings, the aim of CEPA was to bring together and connect aviation professionals fromEast and West. This year’s CEPA-EXPO introduced a new crossroads feature that may be considered a ‘World-Premiere’.
Philippe Lienard
“We are the first conference in the world that brings partners from both commercial and private aviation together,” says Philippe Lienard, current CEPA Chairman. “It is important to involve both commercial and private aviation in this and, as Central Europe is the growing region of Europe, it is suitable that we added an extra day to the program. We have invited key influencers in the industry who explore both sectors successfully and will talk about the synergy between the two. There is a lot that commercial airlines can offer to business jet operators and vice versa.”
This fourth CEPA-EXPO has proven to be an opportunity to explore, network, and find new ways of cooperation between commercial and business aviation. The CEPA organization should be commended for the initiative and the forethought to make an extra day available for this purpose. In the context of cooperation between these two differing aviation segments, let’s take a brief look the airport side of things.
Every airport is different; every aviation
operation is different. Having a reliever airport for private aviation may be a blessing to major airports. Other airport operators may be afraid of losing business to a satellite aerodrome. Business Aviation has “ad hoc” characteristics which are a nuisance compared to scheduled traffic. However Business Aviation can be more lucrative since it needs fewer resources to handle a large bizjet with one or a few passengers, than it takes to handle a commercial passenger operation that requires attention, facilities, equipment and services for anything from a baggage lost and found department to people operating the jet bridges at the gate. National airports need a facility for government VIPs and
they a maybe used relatively little; it may be cost saving if that same facility could also be used for business aviation VIPs. Finding opportunities and added value by examining synergies is important to any operation, be it landside or airside, and be it on the ground or in the air. Exploring common ground and ways to share costs is not just an option, it is a necessity.
The panel in today’s ‘AIRPORTS SESSION – Importance of airports in relation to industry development’ will discuss the importance of the infrastructure in CEE region and the modernization of airports for the industry development and prosperity of the region? In that regard, it is important to keep in mind that every Business Aviation passenger arriving on a private aircraft is a potential investor in the region and that this passenger may be travelling on a bizjet because he or she may be the executive or stakeholder of an entity that contributes to the economy of the region.
In yesterday’s ‘INTEGRATION SESSION – Working together: Business and Commercial Airliners’, we have heard the expert comments and explanations to the questions whether there is a possibility for an for an ideal profit model that brings mutual benefits, how deals may be analyzed and then gains be realized, and if there could be ways for off-shoring, outsourcing and to create alliances.”
Chairman Philippe Lienard has followed the discussions with attention to see how experts from the two segments of the industry interacted and concludes:
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“We were pleased about the discussions during the ‘INTEGRATION SESSION’. At next year’s CEPA-EXPO we will definitely consider how we can broaden this new conference experience of bringing the two aviation segments together. I’m sure that an increased number of professionals of the commercial aviation sector will attend. And…, holding the CEPA EXPO 2014 at a major airport like ‘Vaclav Havel Prague International’ would make a lot of sense and may be more feasible than ever as the airport in many ways serves the two segments that we are trying to join in dialogs and networking.
When I look back on the conference events in the past days, I liked it very much that the focus remained on Central and Eastern Europe. What I enjoy about the conference that it is not a compilation of speeches and Power-Points but rather a lively interaction between experts on the panels and the professionals in the audience. The knowledge is in both sides of the room and challenging and sometimes provoking the exchange of opinions and experience on both sides is a dynamic that I myself enjoy and I think all delegates also.”
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