Tue, Jan 18, 2011
Billed As Asia's Premier Business Aviation Event
The world's major business aircraft manufacturers have
committed to exhibit at the Asian Business Aviation Conference
& Exhibition (ABACE2012), according to NBAA CEO Ed Bolen. "When
NBAA and the Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA) announced
our plans for ABACE2012, the overwhelming support for the show
expressed by industry leaders and CEOs was unprecedented," Bolen
said in a news release Monday. "(V)irtually all the major
manufacturers, including Airbus Corporate Jets, Boeing Business
Jets, Bombardier Aerospace, Cessna Aircraft Company, Dassault
Falcon Jet Corporation, Embraer Executive Jets, Gulfstream
Aerospace Corporation and Hawker Beechcraft Corporation have turned
their declarations of support for the show into commitments to
exhibit."
NBAA's announcement about the exhibitors' commitments follows a
recent ABACE planning meeting in Shanghai between Bolen and
high-ranking government and airport officials. The meeting provided
the Shanghai officials with an overview of the efforts underway to
ensure ABACE2012 will not only be the premier business aviation
event in Asia, but will take its place alongside NBAA's Annual
Meeting & Convention, the European Business Aviation Convention
& Exhibition and the Latin American Business Aviation
Conference & Exhibition as one of the key business aviation
events in the world.
Following Bolen's meetings, Mr. Nianzu Wu, Chairman of the
Shanghai Airport Authority, reflected the widespread enthusiasm for
ABACE2012 by telling Bolen: "Hongqiao Shanghai Airport is the best
choice for ABACE, and we welcome you, not only in 2012, but in
future years as well."
NBAA and AsBAA hosted their first ABACE in Shanghai in 2005,
with subsequent shows in Hong Kong. ABACE2012 will take place from
February 28 - March 1, 2012 at the brand-new Hawker Pacific
facility at Hongqiao Shanghai Airport.
"The seeds that AsBAA and NBAA sowed with those pioneering
shows, back when few others believed in business aviation in Asia,
are now bearing fruit," Bolen said. "ABACE 2012 will accelerate the
understanding and acceptance of business aviation that we initiated
in 2005."
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