Welcome by AEGEAN CEO Dimitris Gerogiannis
Mr. Dimitris Gerogiannis was born in 1961 in Edessa, Greece. He joined AEGEAN in 1999 and has served as general manager of AEGEAN since 2001 and CEO since 2007. Before joining AEGEAN, Mr. Gerogiannis worked in the US, Germany, and Greece. From 1989 to 1997, he held various engineering positions at Daimler Benz AG, Germany. From 1997 to 1999, he served as manager for procurement and contracts at Athens International Airport. Mr. Gerogiannis holds a diploma in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1984) and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University (1989).
Transcript
Dimitris Gerogiannis:I don't intend to bother you for, for long. It's going to be a very short welcome statement from AEGEAN to all of you. Thank you for being in Athens. We welcome you to Greece. We welcome you to Athens and to the 2025 CAPA Airline Leaders Summit. It's a very well-established event, as we all know. And it provides a forum for productive exchanges and new insights. The topic of this year's event, Airlines in Transition, could not be more situational. It could not be more relevant and timely. All airlines in the industry were faced with challenges to rethink and realign our strategy, our product, and our operations in the background of very fast-changing and I would say also very turbulent global realities. Challenges range from standing up and keeping up with the increasing customer demands and customer expectations, geopolitical tensions left and right, unfortunately, and the need for a more sustainable aviation. The problems are more or less common to all airlines. And unfortunately, OpenAI did not put the airlines in transition in its 2025 roadmap. And unfortunately, we still have a lot of work to do, at least for 2025. It may— maybe for 2026 will not be relevant anymore. The reaction of the different airlines will be differentiated depending on its business models and on its DNA. And this is precisely the value of this diversity. The diversity of approaches, the diversity of solutions that airlines will apply in dealing with these problems are exactly the items that foster productive exchanges, new insights, and innovation. And I believe this is the value of such an event. The value of this event is the interaction, is the exchange of ideas, is listening to each other airline's concerns and how they go about them. So, dear colleagues, I would like again to welcome you to Athens. I hope you had the opportunity or you will have the opportunity to enjoy our customer service in one of your flights to or from Athens. I would be very honoured and we all in AEGEAN would be very pleased and honored if you join us tomorrow in a tour that we have in our brand new and green MRO and flight training facilities at Athens Airport. And I wish you all a very pleasant stay in Athens and a very productive and enjoyable meeting. Thank you very much for being in Athens and enjoy the rest of the meeting. Thank you.
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