CAPA World Aviation Summit: "Where does airline liberalisation go from here?”. Antwerp, 20/21 Nov

CAPA is pleased to announce that Willie Walsh, CEO of International Airlines Group (IAG) will join an esteemed panel of experts at the CAPA World Aviation Summit in Brussels/Antwerp to review an essential question for the global airline industry: 'Where is liberalisation heading?' moderated by John Byerly, previously Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Affairs, US Department of State.

Following a keynote presentation by the new Director General of DG MOVE, João Aguiar Machado, the European Commission's DG MOVE Director of Aviation & International Transport Affairs, Margus Rahuoja, will join the panel featuring Mr Walsh, CEO of IAG, Aer Lingus CEO, Ethiopian CEO, Tewolde GebreMariam, Etihad Airways' Chief Strategy Officer, Kevin Knight and Lufthansa SVP Chief Strategy Officer, Sadiq Gilani to address key issues, such as:

• Is protectionism making a revival?
• What is the role of regulators in the process?
• The carriers of change: who has the vested interests in a changed system?
• Can the old norms - ownership and control, nationalism - ever be changed?
• Are metal-neutral JVs creating juggernauts, making new entry too hard?