Routes Americas started 2018 in Quito, Ecuador

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Today, Tuesday 13, ripped Routes Americas 2018 in Quito, Ecuador, the main aeronautical event of the continent and that will take place until this 15 February at the Quito Exhibition Center. This event covers the main airlines, airports and tourist entities of the world that seek to materialize new businesses and investments.

With the presence of more than 800 delegates, 80 airlines, 300 airports, 40 tourism authorities, 20 exhibitors and more than 30 national and international press delegates, the road authorities, Quito Tourism, The Mayor's Office of Quito and Quiport S.A started the most important event in the industry that for the first time landed in Quito and also for the first time in South America.

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

In this space I will publish the main news that this great event that will seek to be in this edition leaves us every day., key piece for the development of new routes and the arrival of new airlines to Ecuador and also, to all of America and business development around the world.

First day Routes Americas 2018

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

The dynamics of Routes America is divided into 2 main themes or sections. The first are the meetings that airline delegates, 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 aeronautical industry.

On the first day they carried out 2 charlas, which were the following:

• A life in aviation and facing new Latin American challenges: With the participation of Nigel Mayes Senior Vice President and Product Development of ASM together with Declan Ryan Chief Executive Officer of Viva Air, issues of the development of Ryanair and how the Viva Air group looks at the Latin American market were discussed.. At this point Declan Ryan indicated interest in continuing to grow in Peru, generate something in Ecuador and develop the business in Argentina, country that he classified as a "gold mine". further, mentioned the complexity of starting operations in Brazil, although he did not rule it out, but yes in the case of Chile, where the market is already fully covered for now.

• Recovering from disasters: featuring 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 challenges that airports face in the face of common natural disasters in America such as hurricanes., earthquakes, etc. The main objective of an airport before and after a natural disaster is to always maintain connectivity and do everything possible so that flights are always maintained safely and with the care of the personnel involved..

Routes Americas first day announcements 2018

In the first talk of the day that featured the participation of the prominent businessman and owner of Ryanair, Declan Ryan made 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 of the Viva group will come to Ecuador.
• The possibility of Viva opening the airline Viva Air Ecuador is opened.
• It is already being analyzed 3 airports in Ecuador to fly to.
• VivaColombia will return to Ecuador, but they are negotiating with the airports, these could be Quito or Latacunga.
• Latacunga has a great possibility of capturing the flights of VivaColombia and Viva Air Ecuador.

Second day Routes Americas 2018

During the second day at Routes Americas 2018, the activity intensified and more meetings between airlines and airports were held in order to seek strategies and benefits that help both parties. Equally, more master conferences were held led by personalities from the industry:

• 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, North America will grow 2.3%, while Latin America will spend 4.2% with 757 million passengers. The challenges of the region were also discussed, where infrastructure and technology are the main factors holding back 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 commented on the strategies that have led Viva Aerobus to be the Mexican airline with the most growth and seats offered in the Mexican market thanks to the guidelines of flying more times and with more capacity on all its routes..
• Airline opportunities in a market ready for growth: presentation made by the Minister of Transportation and Public Works 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..
• 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 issues were discussed for Latin America to become a successful case of aeronautical growth, a region that by geography needs to travel by plane and a growing middle class, will be 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 years of the airline and what are the immediate plans, where the sale of the 5 the airline's own aircraft and look for cheaper leased aircraft and unify the fleet with exclusively Airbus and ATR aircraft.
• Airport privatization: what do airlines want?: Participating in this panel was Matthew Cornelius Vice President of Air Policy at Airports Council International, Caetan Cagne President & Chief Executive officer in Quebec 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, Is it good to privatize in order to generate more investment in the airport or will this generate an increase in airport costs and fees??
• 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 but with the ULLC model were discussed (Ultra Low Cost Carriers), the trend in countries like Canada, Chile and Argentina, plus what should be learned from these countries as well as how traditional airlines can compete with this trend.

  

Announcements second day Routes Americas 2018

• The second announcement came from Aeroméxico, which increases its flight frequencies to Quito with up to 12 weekly flights from Mexico City, you can read the details here: www.nlarenas.com/2018/02/aeromexico-aumenta-vuelos-quito.

Third day Routes Americas 2018

The closing day of the event continued the negotiations between the participants, that will bear fruit in the short and medium term. in negotiations, each one of those involved proposes, for example a route by an airline, and the airport or destination offers the best rates for the operation at the airport, benefits and even money back for a time agreed between both parties, everything in order to realize these businesses.

 

During the third day the last meetings were lived in a more intense way, everyone wanted to close deals or pave the way for new business or growth opportunities for both airlines, countries and airports.

On the last day only one conference was held, since that day the efforts were focused on the meetings between the participants:

• Masterclass: seizing the potential of data: In this class, which was led by Ilona Cambron Director of Air Service Development at ASM and Jeremiah Gerald Director of Air Service Strategy at ASM, the importance of data analysis for airlines was discussed, information sources such as DoT, the new technologies and the opportunities that airlines can learn from passenger information with a simple datum, the ZIP Code of your passengers.

Announcements third day Routes Americas 2018

• Southwest will begin flying between Kansas City and Raleigh–Durham.
• Ecuador and Guatemala announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop air connectivity, cruises and tourism between both countries. This agreement will be signed in Bogotá, Colombia in the next few days.
• The edition of Routes Americas 2019 will take place in Quebec, Canada once Quito handed over responsibility to this city. The event will take place from 12 al 14 February 2019.

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