Routes Europe, now in its 8thyear, is the only network planning forum for all of the European region and sales for the event officially opened earlier this week. The 2013 event will take place on 12-14 May and, hosted by Budapest Airport, will take place in Budapest the beautiful historic capital of Hungary.

With Routes Europe growing year on year this annual event will see over 800 key decision makers from airlines, airports, tourism authorities and their stakeholders descend on Budapest to meet, do business and plan for the future. This unrivalled event, which offers airports the chance to meet with over 80 airlines, will also provide all attendees with an opportunity to prepare for World Routes which will take place later in the year in Las Vegas.

The event attracts a wide variety of airlines with low-cost, charter, regional and flag carriers all in attendance and represented by delegates who are responsible for making decisions on both new and existing routes. Amongst others airlines such as Air Baltic, Air, Norwegian.com, Germanwings, Czech Airlines, SAS and Vueling have already confirmed their attendance for the 2013 event.

In addition to the traditional one-to-one meetings airport delegates attending Routes Europe in 2013 will have the opportunity to arrange ‘city pair’ meetings with other airports at no additional cost. All kinds of meeting requests can now be made online via the new and improved online meeting requests system which made its debut earlier this year for World Routes in Abu Dhabi.

Many airports from the European region and beyond have also registered early to attend the 2013 event such as; Prague Airport, Edmonton International, Zurich Airport, Berlin Brandenburg Airport, Munich Airport, Ekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

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