Routes Europe is the only event for those interested in accessing the most senior airline and airport decision-makers from all across Europe. The event which will take place in Budapest 12-14May is in its 8thyear and is set to attract this year’s largest gathering of senior airline network planners in the whole of Europe.

The Routes Promise

The Routes Promise is that we deliver senior decision makers from airlines, airports and destinations who make the real business decisions on air services. No other event even comes close to what Routes events deliver, for the first time at any of our regional events Routes Europe has already attracted almost 900 delegates of which there are over 100 carriers including more than 200 airline delegates.

Largest Airline Attendance to Date

The event is still receiving registrations from airline attendees on a daily basis and these attendees include low cost carriers such as Wizz, Norwegian, Easyjet, Vueling, Germanwings, Volotea, Jet2.com and Pegasus Airlines. European Flag carriers such as Lufthansa, British Airways, Iberia, Turkish Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Air France and SAS, three major middle east carriers (Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways), China Southern Airlines, Garuda Indonesia and SriLankan Airlines from Asia Pacific. Aeroflot, Rossiya Airlines, UTair, Belavia – Belarusian Airlines and S7 Airlines from CIS and Air Transat and American Airlines from North America. We have first time attendees including; Air Greenland, Nouvelair Tunisie, Base Airlines, Farnair Switzerland, FlyGeorgia, Nordwind Airlines and Maastricht Airlines.

Insightful Airline Briefings

Borne out of its online Route Exchange facility, Routes Europe pioneered the concept of Airline Briefings over 4 years ago. These live Route Exchange Airline Briefings have been proven and are trusted at Routes events which have a clear understanding of the need for them to be delivered by new route decision makers. This year there is a dedicated briefing theatre at the event in Budapest which will allow senior figures from the airline network planning community to brief airports and destinations on their future markets of interest and planning cycles. There are currently five Route Exchange Airline briefings at Routes Europe from Lufthansa, Air Nostrum, Easyjet, Darwin Airlines, Sky Work Airlines and the Nasair CEO will be launching a Request for Proposals (RFP) live at the event.

Strong Airport representation

Ahead of Routes Europe 2014 in Marseille next year, the French aviation community are heading to Budapest en masse and they will join the over 300 airports that will be represented at the event. Airports currently registered include; Aeroport Angouleme-Cognac; Aeroport Brest Bretagne; Aeroport de St Etienne; Aeroport Nantes Atlantique; Aeroport Toulouse Francazal; Aeroports de Lyon SA; Avignon - Provence Airport; Bergerac Airport, Dordogne Périgord; Beziers - Cap D'Agde Airport; Biarritz Airport; Bordeaux Airport; Brive Dordogne Valley Airport; Chalon-Champforgeuil Airport; Cherbourg- Maupertus Airport; Deauville Normandie Airport; Grenoble-Isere Airport; Keolis Airports; La Rochelle - Ile de Re Airport; Lille Airport; Limoges International Airport; Marseille Provence Airport; Montpellier Mediterranee Airport; Nice Cote D'Azur Airport; Paris Vatry Airport; Paris-Beauvais Airport; Pau Pyrénées Airport; Rennes & Dinard Airports; Rouen Airport; SNC Lavalin; Strasbourg International Airport; Tarbes Lourdes Pyrenees Airport; Toulon-Hyères International Airport; Toulouse-Blagnac Airport; Tours - Val de Loire Airport; Veolia Transdev, Carcassonne and Perpignan Airports; Vinci Airports, this equates to more representation, to date, from the French Market than any other event taking place this year.

Valuable and Effective Meetings

The core of any Routes event is of course the pre-scheduled Face-to-Face Meetings that our dedicated scheduling team work to deliver for all meeting attendees. Our online meeting requests system combined with the expertise of our team ensures that all potential meeting opportunities are arranged for our delegates, the opportunities to meet are endless. Developments to our extra meetings system at the event this year and the continuation of pre-scheduled meetings on Sunday means that Routes Europe is the most valuable event of the year for those interested in building, maintaining and developing their European route networks.

Extended Networking Village

Routes Europe in the beautiful and vibrant city of Budapest will, for the first time, be held in a Conference & Exhibition Centre SYMA, Hungary’s newest and most modern, state-of-the-art multifunctional facility which has allowed us to expand the Networking Village at the event to include more exhibitors from across Europe and further afield. Exhibitors include a cross section of Airports, Governments, Suppliers and other organisations. Our sponsors at this year’s event include Helsinki Airport, Shannon Airport, Cagliari Airport, Edmonton International Airport and Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport.

Senior Airline Speakers

All these factors combined with the event’s conference content, the Routes Europe Strategy Summit, which will include a keynote address from József Váradi, CEO, Wizz Air and session panellists including; Fatih Cigal, Director of Network Planning, Turkish Airlines, Dirk Kokcott, Director of Business Development, Germanwings and Fernando Estrada, Strategy & Alliance Director, Vueling will ensure that Routes Europe 2013 will be the most effective network planning event to be held in Europe this year.

We look forward to seeing you there!