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Speaker:

• Aviation Week Network, Group Editor-in-Chief, Air Transport, Karen Walker
• Alaska, CEO, Ben Minicucci

CAPA Live is the most sought-after monthly global aviation event. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. Register here to be part of our growing community.

There is something very important that most airlines either do not recognise – or don’t wish to: The future airline industry will never be the same again. In 2021 at least, there'll be very limited business travel, perhaps as much as 50% of previous levels in the second and half of the year, but even that's probably optimistic. The loss of business travel will undermine the full service airline business model and limit what has traditionally been an important and profitable market segment. In this edition of CAPA Live, we look at the recovery of business travel and try to answer: What segments of the industry will return first? What technology exists to help support recovery? How have the expectations of business travellers changed? 

Speaker Highlights include:

• KLM, President & CEO, Pieter Elbers
• Finnair, President & CEO, Topi Manner
• Alaska Air Group, CEO, Ben Minicucci
• Japan Airlines, Director, Tadashi Fujita
• Wizz Air, CEO, József Váradi
• Viva, CEO, Felix Antelo
• Heathrow Airport Holdings Ltd, CEO, John Holland-Kaye
• Widerøe, CEO, Stein Nilsen

CAPA Live is the most sought-after monthly global aviation event. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. Register here to be part of our growing community.

Speakers:

• Traveltopia, Futurist, Johnny Thorsen
• GBTA, CEO, Suzanne Neufang

CAPA Live is the most sought-after monthly global aviation event. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. Register here to be part of our growing community.

Speakers:

• Traveltopia, Futurist, Johnny Thorsen
   

CAPA Live is the most sought-after monthly global aviation event. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. Register here to be part of our growing community.

Pieter Elbers has been CEO of the Netherlands' national airline KLM since 2014, making him one of the longest serving heads of a leading European legacy carrier.

Part of the Air France-KLM group, KLM is a top 10 European airline in its own right, ranked by 2019 passenger numbers. Historically, it has also been a pioneer in the development of the international hub and of airline alliances.

The pandemic has placed pressure on both of these concepts, but KLM has been operating at a higher percentage of pre-crisis capacity than most other major European airlines. Mr Elbers said in May-2021 that KLM did not expect further job cuts or need additional cash.

Speakers:

• CAPA - Centre for Aviation, Chairman Emeritus, Peter Harbison
• KLM, President & CEO, Pieter Elbers

CAPA Live is the most sought-after monthly global aviation event. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. Register here to be part of our growing community.

Finnair is the national carrier of Finland with a network of international services from its base in Helsinki. Thanks to its geographical location the airline has an extensive west-east network but this has been hit hard by the pandemic. We will hear how the airline has been affected by the pandemic and its plans for the future.

Speakers:

• CAPA - Centre for Aviation, Chief Financial Analyst, Jonathan Wober
• Finnair, President & CEO, Topi Manner

CAPA Live is the most sought-after monthly global aviation event. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. Register here to be part of our growing community.

Speakers:

• CAPA - Centre for Aviation, Managing Director, Derek Sadubin
• Seattle-Tacoma International Airport|Port of Seattle, Managing Director, Aviation Division, Lance Lyttle
  
   

CAPA Live is the most sought-after monthly global aviation event. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. Register here to be part of our growing community.

Wizz Air is a low cost carrier based in Budapest. The carrier predominantly uses secondary airports and is continuously looking at opportunities to expand its network of destinations and provide low-cost air transport to and from Central and Eastern Europe. The LCC has aggressive growth plans and its low unit costs and healthy balance sheet should help them to recover with greater capacity growth when the recovery materialises, since it is likely to be a recovery led by price sensitive market segments rather than by high yield business traffic. 

Speakers:

• CAPA - Centre for Aviation, Chairman Emeritus, Peter Harbison
• Wizz Air, CEO, József Váradi

CAPA Live is the most sought-after monthly global aviation event. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. Register here to be part of our growing community.

It cannot be denied that leading any part of an airline in 2021 is going to look very different than ever before. The impact of COVID-19 has required all airlines to reassess their processes, innovate and adapt to a new world order.

In Nov-2020, CAPA’s Chairman Emeritus stated: “It is important to have some sort of reality check now that we’re nine months on from the onset of this COVID-19 disaster. Fundamentally, we’re looking at a new platform from which the industry will build over the next decade.

What will the new situation be like? Most people realise now, unless they're really deluding themselves, that it is going to be a structurally very different industry”.

As we look further into 2021, we ask key airline executives to explore how they will run their business differently and what they expect from the year ahead.

• How has COVID-19 impacted processes within airline management?
• How has the additional focus of staff and passenger safety changed the way airlines are run?
• What will recovery look like? 

Speakers:

• CAPA - Centre for Aviation, EMEA Analyst, Richard Maslen
• AACO, Secretary General, Abdul Wahab Teffaha
• Gulf Air, Acting Chief Executive Officer, Waleed AlAlawi
• Qatar Airways, Chief Commercial Officer, Thierry Antinori

CAPA Live is the most sought-after monthly global aviation event. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. Register here to be part of our growing community.

Wideroøe is a primarily domestic airline in Norway. Its business consists of two pillars: public service obligation (PSO) routes connecting remote regions of the country on the West Coast and in the North, plus its own commercial airline network. During the pandemic, the airline continued to offer 70-80% of its capacity even though passenger numbers dropped sharply in some months. Wideroøe is committed to the target of operating zero emission domestic flights soon and is working closely with Rolls-Royce on the future of electric aircraft.

Speakers:

• Aviation Week Network, Executive Editor, Commercial Aviation, Jens Flottau
• Widerøe, CEO, Stein Nilsen

CAPA Live is the most sought-after monthly global aviation event. Taking place on the second Wednesday of each month, thousands of industry colleagues from across the globe tune in for their monthly dose of aviation and travel news, analysis, and in-depth interviews with industry leaders. Register here to be part of our growing community.