In a little over six weeks time, Europe’s aviation community will meet at Routes Europe, taking place 12-14 May. Over 100 Airlines are expected to attend Routes Europe in 2013 and already 170 airline delegates representing over 85 carriers have registered to attend the event confirming that this year is set to the biggest gathering yet of Europe’s key decision makers.

Now in its 8thyear, Routes Europe is the only network planning forum for the entire European region and the 2013 event, hosted by Budapest Airport, will take place in Budapest, the beautiful historic capital of Hungary. Routes Europe brings together over 800 delegates from airports, airlines, tourism authorities and other industry stakeholders from across Europe to discuss air service development.

The event revolves around pre-scheduled Face to Face Meetings which, this year, have been extended to include further meetings on Sunday 12thMay, so delegates have more opportunity to meet with their target airlines.

The Low Cost and Regional sectors will be well represented in Budapest with Low Cost Carriers easyJet, Norwegian, Wizz Air, Germanwings, Air Berlin, Volotea and Vueling amongst those registered to attend, including key decision makers from airlines such as Wizz Air, who’s CEO, Josef Varadi will attend, and Jet2.com’s recently appointed CEO, Steve Heapy. The regional market is also well served by carriers including Skywork Airlines, Cityjet, Darwin Airline, Eurolot, Flybe, Blue Islands and TAROM.

For airports wishing to meet with European network carriers, attendees include Air France, British Airways, Iberia, Lufthansa, SAS, CSA Czech Airlines, Turkish Airlines and Swiss International Airlines, whilst out of region presence comes from American Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Air Transat, Etihad Airways and Emirates. The event will also see a first time attendance from Reykjavik based WOW Air along with out of region carriers UPS, SriLankan Airlines and Nordwind. Click here to view the most recent attendee list.

Routes Europe continues to grow at a tremendous rate in terms of airline participation and should not to be missed by those interested in developing air services to, from and within Europe, for full details of the event programme and to register click here.