Aces – Athens: 3rd Airport Chief Executives’ Symposium

The 3rd Airport Chief Executives’ Symposium (ACES – Athens), an Athens International Airport initiative hosted in Athens on a yearly basis, was successfully held on November 19th, 2015 with the participation of more than 140 top executives from air transport, the financial and the tourism industries.

The ACES Symposium aims on one hand to highlight the interdependence between the air transport industry & airports and the development of the destinations they serve and on the other to undertake initiatives for the strengthening of Athens as a tourism destination.

This year’s ACES - Athens focused on:

• The strategic topic of hub airports serving the destination and the O&D strategy vs hubbing 
• Recent developments on EU Aviation Package

Keynote speakers, Angela Gittens, Director General ACI World, and Olivier Jankovec, Director General ACI Europe, set the scene of the world aviation and referred to the ever changing conditions and challenges in the global aviation sector, whereas Dr. Stefan Schulte, CEO, Fraport AG, on behalf of the FRAPORT AG-SLENTEL Ltd consortium analytically referred to the privatisation, as well as the upgrade of the airport and tourism infrastructure at the Greek regional airports.

In the context of the initiatives undertaken each year for the promotion of Athens, Athens International Airport CEO, Yiannis Paraschis, offered a glimpse in the new campaign ‘Speak AΘenian. Be an AΘenian’ which will promote Athens internationally during 2016 and is to be officially announced during a joint Press Conference by AIA and Marketing Greece later that year.

On the occasion of the 3rd Airport Chief Executives’ Symposium, AIA’s CEO, Yiannis Paraschis, highlighted:

“Our ACES – Athens Symposium, an Athens airport initiative well established by now, for a third consecutive year became an ideal platform of synthesis of ideas and opinions at the highest level. As hosts of the aviation family, indeed at a very positive moment for traffic development in our city and our airport, yet in an ever changing and volatile sector that constantly evolves and is affected by a series of external factors, I would like to convey our most sincere thanks to our distinguished guests and to all contributors to the success of our gathering and underline the importance of exchanging views, engaging in a constructive dialogue and forming a united front.”

View the sumposium agenda here!