Routes Americas started 2018 in Quito, Ecuador

Today, Tuesday 13, arrancó Routes Americas 2018 in Quito, Ecuador, the main aeron eventáutico of the continent and that will developá to this 15 February at the Quito Exhibition Center. This event covers the main airlinesídenies, airports and tourist entitiesícompanies in the world that seek to establish new businesses and investments.

With the presence of meás de 800 delegates, 80 aerolídenies, 300 airports, 40 tourism authorities, 20 exhibitors and más de 30 national and international press delegates, the road authorities, Quito Tourism, Alcaldía de Quito and Quiport S.A started the event más important industry that first landedó in Quito and that alsoéFor the first time he did it in South Americaérica.

Aerolídenies, airports and tourist entitiesíaesthetics are found under the same space in order to deepen relationships, work on strategies, make yourself known and generate potential new businesses that will be seenán translated into a single objective, new Routes for everyone involved in this event.

In this space publishé the main news that every dayíleave us this great event to look forá be in this editionón, key piece for the development of new routes and the arrival of new airlinesílines to Ecuador and alsoén, to all américh and developing business around the world.

first día Routes Americas 2018

During the first dayíto and after the registration of the más de 700 delegates who have arrived so far at the event were given various events and news, especially, interesting for Ecuador.

FromáRoutes America mica is divided into 2 main themes or sections. The first are the meetings that Aerol delegatesídenies, authorities and airports have between them in order to achieve new and potential business between them and the other, keynote lectures by great personalities of the aero industryáutica.

In the first díto were carried out 2 charlas, which were the following:

• A life in aviation and facing new Latin American challenges: with the participantóNigel Mayes Senior Vice President and Product Development of ASM together with Declan Ryan Chief Executive Officer of Viva Air discussed topics regarding the development of Ryanair and cóThe Viva Air group looks at the Latin American marketérica. At this point Declan Ryan indicatedó the interés for continuing to grow in Peruú, generate something in Ecuador and develop the business in Argentina, paíyes catalogueó like a «goldmine». further, mentionó the complexity of starting operations in Brazil, although I didn't rule it outó, but yes in the case of Chile, where the market already isá fully covered for now.

• Recovering from disasters: with the participantóby Tracy Cooper of Bahamasair, Andreas Lusso de JetBlue, Javier Martinez Botacio General Director of ACI-LAC and Alejandro Vales of Direct. This panel discussed the challengesíWhat airports face in the face of common natural disasters in Américh as hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. The main objective of an airport before and afterés of a natural disaster is to always maintain connectivity and do everything possible so that flights are always maintained safely and with care of the personnel involved..

First day announcementsía Routes Americas 2018

In the first talk of the dayía que contó with the participantón of the prominent businessman and ownerñthat of Ryanair, Declan Ryan performedó some announcements about the future that the Viva group has for Ecuador.

Among these ads, which can be found in full in the following link: www.nlarenas.com/2018/02/se-viene-viva-air-ecuador stand out:

• Some of the 50 new planes from the Viva group will comeán a Ecuador.
• The possibility of Viva opening the airline opensínea Viva Air Ecuador.
• It isá analyzing now 3 airports in Ecuador to fly to.
• VivaColombia backá a Ecuador, but it isán negotiating with airports, these couldíthe ser Quito or Latacunga.
• Latacunga has a great possibility of capturing the flights of VivaColombia and Viva Air Ecuador.

Second día Routes Americas 2018

During the second day at Routes Americas 2018, activity intensifiedó y más meetings between airílines and airports were carried out in order to seek strategies and benefits that help both parties. Equally, más keynote conferences were held led by industry personalities:

• Panel debate – State of the Americas region: led by Peter Cerdá Regional VP of IATA, Matthew Cornelius Vice President Air Policy at Airports Council, Nigel Mayes Senior Vice President en ASM y Maribel Rodriguez Regional Director of Southern Europe and LATAM en World Travel & Tourism Council. This panel discussed expected figures for growth in the region.ón, North Américh growá a 2.3%, while Latinérich passá the 4.2% with 757 million passengers. Spaghettiéchallenges were not addressedíos of the región, where infrastructure and technologyía are the main factors that slow down growth, Although there have been significant improvements.
• Keynote interview: presented by Will Livsey head of customer support at FlightGlobal and Javier Suarez VP Network and Fleet Planning at Viva Aerobus. in this interview, Javier Suarez commentedó the strategies that have led Viva Aerobus to be the airlineíMexican nea with más growth and seats offered in the Mexican market thanks to the guidelines of flying más times and with más capacity on all its routes.
• Airline opportunities in a market ready for growth: presentationón made by the Minister of Transport and Works PúBibles Paul Granda, where all the benefits and changes that Ecuador has applied to enhance its national and international connectivity and the opportunities that exist in the country were discussed.ís.
• Panel debate – Returning Latin America’s powerhouses to growth: Ramiro Alem Co-founder of inverTUR participated in this panel, Peter Cerdá Regional VP of IATA and Stephen Rapp Chief Commercial Officer at Viva Air. During this panel, key topics were discussed so that Latin AmericaéRica managed to be a successful case of aero growtháuseful, a kingdomón that by geographyíhe needs to travel by planeón and a growing middle class, to beán the fundamental pillars to achieve it.
• Airlines Live!: presented by Ignacio Vallejo Chairman of the Board of Directors of Tame EP, plans were discussed 5 añthe airínea y witháThey are the immediate plans, where the sale of the 5 Aerosol's own planesínea and search for aircraft for lease más cheap and unify the fleet with Airbus and ATR aircraft exclusively.
• Airport privatization: what do airlines want?: Participating in this panel was Matthew Cornelius Vice President of Air Policy at Airports Council International, Caetan Dogé President & Chief Executive Officer and Québec Jean Lesage International Airport, Andrew O’Brian is President and CEO of Quiport Corporation and Jeff Scheferman is Executive Vice President of CCR Airports. During this panel, the 2 sides of the coin, ¿It is good to privatize in order to generate greater investmentón at the airport or this generateá an increase in airport costs and taxes?
• Panel Debate – Is low-cost the future of the Americas?: debate led by Carlos Criado Commercial Director at Corporación Quiport, Alvaro Leite Chief Commercial Officer at Aerodom, Maribel Rodriguez  Regional Director of Southern Europe and LATAM en World Travel & Tourism Council and Javier Suarez VP Network and Fleet Planning of Viva Aerobus in which topics such as the growing entry of new airlines were discussed.ínew ULLC model period (Ultra Low Cost Carriers), the trend in países like Canadaá, Chile and Argentina, más what should be learned from these países like tooén cómo the airlineítraditional lines can compete with this trend.

  

Ads according to día Routes Americas 2018

• The second announcement cameó from the hand of Aeroméxico, which increases its flight frequencies to Quito with up to 12 weekly flights from Ciudad de México, You can read the details hereí: www.nlarenas.com/2018/02/aeromexico-aumenta-vuelos-quito.

Third día Routes Americas 2018

The díAt the closing of the event negotiations continued between the participants, what to generateán fruits in the short and medium term. in negotiations, each one of those involved proposes, for example a route by an airlineínea, and the airport or destination offers the best rates for the operationón at the airport, benefits and even refundón of money for a time that is agreed between both parties, everything in order to realize these businesses.

During the third dayíat úlast meetings were lived in a moreáis intense, everyone wantsíto close agreements or pave the way for new businesses or growth opportunities for both Aerolídenies, países and airports.

At úlast díit was only doneó a conference, since that díefforts were focused on meetings between participants:

• Masterclass: seizing the potential of data: In this class that was led by Ilona Cambron Director of Air Service Development at ASM and Jeremiah Gerald Director of Air Service Strategy at ASM, theó the importance ofádata lysis for aerolídenies, the sources of informationón like DoT, the new technologiesías and the opportunities that airlines can learnínes from the informationónumber of passengers with a simple piece of information, the ZIP Code of your passengers.

third d advertisementsía Routes Americas 2018

• Southwest empezará to fly between Kansas City and Raleigh–Durham.
• Ecuador and Guatemala announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop connectivity toérea, cruises and tourism between both países. This agreement will be signedá in Bogotaá, Colombia in the próximos días.
• The editionón the Routes Americas 2019 will developá in quebec, Canadaá once Quito deliveredó the responsibility to this city. The event will take placeá of the 12 al 14 February 2019.