The inaugural Airline Operations Leaders' Summit, organised by CAPA - Centre for Aviation (CAPA) and Aviation Week Network, will take place on December 2-3 in Seville, Spain, at the hotel Barceló Sevilla Renacimiento. 

It will cover aviation material costs, as well as challenges in cybersecurity, supply and labour, with aerospace, aftermarket and MRO data, and leading airline strategy, news and events.

Attendees of the summit will hear from the highest calibre of aviation industry and airline thought leaders.

CAPA – Centre for Aviation (CAPA), the world’s most trusted source of market intelligence for the aviation and travel industry, are pleased to announce the return of the CAPA Americas Aviation & LCCs Summit in 2020, with the 6th annual event to convene in San Juan, Puerto Rico on 7/8-May-2020. 

With the Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC), the Government’s Tourism Board as the main sponsor, the Summit will tap into the latest developments, challenges and strategic issues facing the aviation industry in the Americas for two days of thought provoking discussion. 

CAPA – Centre for Aviation (CAPA), the world’s most trusted source of market intelligence for the aviation and travel industry, is pleased to announce the return of the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation & Corporate Travel Summit in 2020, jointly supported by The Government of South Australia and Adelaide Airport Ltd.

The annual two-day Summit will be held in Adelaide on 5/6-Aug-2020 where more than 500 leading aviation and travel industry executives from Australia and key foreign markets across the globe will gather to discuss the latest regional aviation developments and the current state of the market’s evolution.

The Summit will deliver the region’s pre-eminent aviation strategy event, providing a critical platform for aviation executives to share their insights on airline policy and plans to better serve the Australia Pacific by air; explore the competitive market outlook; bring together key analysts to understand the competitive market; and deliver debates on the issues and challenges facing the region.

CAPA – Centre for Aviation (CAPA) is extending its global thought leadership event calendar to include a dedicated Canada Aviation Summit, held in Winnipeg on 9/10-Sep-2019.

Canada's airline and airport systems include many features unique to that country and there has been a dearth of public discussion on many of the key strategy areas. CAPA's high level Summit will seek to address many topical issues. As a flurry of new airline entry appears in the market, a novel level of turbulence is creating waves.

With industry leaders from Air Canada, WestJet, Transat, Swoop, Sunwing, Flair, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United, Air China, Cathay Pacific, major Canadian airports, academics, government officials and many more, the level of discussion is guaranteed to generate many thought provoking moments. Emirates President Sir Tim Clark will also deliver his thoughts on the Canadian system via video.

Supported by Winnipeg Airports Authority, the 2-day Summit is expected to attract over 250 delegates, making it one of the most sought after strategic events of its kind in the region.

CAPA - Centre for Aviation is pleased to welcome back to Sydney the 2019 CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit on 07/08-Aug-2019 at the Sydney Hyatt Regency.

This event is set to once again attract the leading airline, airport and travel industry executives from Australia and key foreign markets, making it the largest strategic event of its kind in the region.

Expect an audience of 600+ aviation leaders, and senior executives from the Qantas and Virgin Australia groups, Japan Airlines, AirAsia X and many others, addressing such diverse issues confronting the industry as "What's really going on within the competitive market in Australia?", "The future of the trans-Tasman market", "The great debate: Airport regulation, friend or foe?" and "Drones: Adapting to a world of UAVs, what's next?".

This important aviation Summit is supported by the NSW Government, through its tourism and major events agency Destination NSW.

(02-Jun-19) CAPA – Centre for Aviation in partnership with Qatar Airways, is pleased to announce the return of the CAPA-Qatar Aviation Aeropolitical and Regulatory Summit to Doha on 05/06-Feb-2020.

As the first Aeropolitical gathering of its kind in the Middle East, the inaugural Summit in February 2019 was a resounding success, concluding with agreement on the ‘Doha Declaration,’ a manifesto that calls for a political re-commitment to the principles of liberalisation to foster a more flexible regulatory framework for international air transport. The Summit united over 300 local and international delegates to hear from more than 35 expert speakers across the aviation, legal and government sectors. 

CAPA – Centre for Aviation, the world’s most trusted source of market intelligence for the aviation and travel industry, is set to expand its reach of regional events around the world to the Middle East and Africa. The CAPA Middle East & Africa Aviation Summit, is set to be held on 29-30 April 2019, and will examine commercial and operational issues affecting airlines and airports in both developed and emerging markets.

The Summit will challenge leaders of the Middle East and African aviation industries to reflect on what is needed to drive it forward, using examples of innovation in outside markets as a benchmark to follow.

CAPA Chairman Emeritus Peter Harbison said: “It is important and timely that CAPA bring our brand of informative and educational summits to the Middle East and Africa. Both regions are going through important change and development, and like all our events, we will seek to tap into these changes and address the key issues impacting the regions.”

The Summit will begin with regional spotlights determining the issues impacting each location and opportunities to improve growth. Complementing this will be a mix of aviation, macroeconomic, travel and geopolitical topics across a range of keynotes and interactive panel discussions.

CAPA and ACTE bring together leading aviation executives and government officials, travel managers and suppliers in Canberra on 15-Mar-2017 to discuss the aviation outlook, travel industry best practice and share their experiences of well-managed travel programmes.
 
Organised by CAPA - Centre for Aviation and global business travel organisation ACTE (Association of Corporate Travel Executives), the first annual Canberra Aviation & Corporate Travel Summit will be held on 15 March at the Novotel Canberra.
 
The event brings together many of the region’s leading experts in aviation and corporate travel to discuss developments, trends and market conditions.

CAPA – Centre for Aviation is offering a full time Journalist/Writer/Research Analyst position in its Sydney-based writing team. The successful applicant will join a passionate team in a role that involves sourcing, producing and editing engaging content for our growing digital audience.

As a key member of the editorial team, you will have a strong digital focus as you deliver news and information to our digital audience and create and edit content on a daily basis. The day-to-day activities involve researching and writing on high level market topics, and preparing extensive analytical reports on a range of aviation and travel topics. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has a sound understanding of, and is passionate about, the Australian/New Zealand aviation market and can work in the fast-paced digital media world.

OSAKA, 22 September 2016 – CAPA - Centre for Aviation is pleased to announce that Osaka will be the host city for the annual CAPA LCCs in North Asia Summit on 13-14 June 2017.

The Summit, to be hosted by Kansai Airports, is one of the largest LCC gatherings in the region, attracting LCC CEOs from across Asia.

“Kansai International Airport as the gateway to Kansai region welcomes the CAPA LCCs in North Asia Summit in Osaka. We are extremely proud that this Summit will be hosted by Kansai Airports with the opportunity to introduce the attractiveness of the Kansai Region. For several years the LCC market has been on strong growth at KIX, where we have the number one LCC network among Japanese airports. We are really delighted to host this event in 2017 since our LCC Terminal extension will be completed by the first quarter next year”, said Yoshiyuki Yamaya, Representative Director and CEO, Kansai Airports, and Emmanuel Menanteau, Representative Director and Co-CEO, Kansai Airports.