1st July 2011
The Future of Aviation: The Airline Industry at the Crossroads
This workshop will bring together leading experts and practitioners, identify key challenges and develop scenarios for a sustainable future of the airline industry.
Airlines and air traffic have been a dynamic element of an internationalizing world economy. Despite set-backs due to economic crises or terrorism, they have expanded and made air travel a mass phenomenon in many parts of the world. The industry has also seen important changes in types of airlines, strategy, alliances, business models, technology, forms of competition and – last but not least – national and supranational regulation. The world economic crisis after 2008 and concern over the greenhouse effect have however led to more fundamental questions: Is continued expansion sustainable? Which development of the industry is sustainable, what changes does it imply?
In some ways, such as in the internationalization of markets, business models and alliances, the industry has moved beyond the nation state, in others it has remained under predominantly national regulation or governance. This workshop will bring together leading experts and practitioners, identify key challenges and develop scenarios for a sustainable future of the airline industry.
ORGANISERS
Prof. Reinhard Bachmann
Prof. Mike Geppert
Dr. Ayse Saka-Helmhout
Dr. Knut Lange
Prof. Reinhard Bachmann