U.S.-EU Cooperation On Aviation Facing Serious Challenges
The world's most important aviation
relationship, that between the United States and Europe, faces
unprecedented challenges. Senior industry leaders and
aviation safety regulators from the U.S. and Europe will explore
the full scope of aviation relations across the Atlantic at the
Second Transatlantic Aviation Issues Conference, "U.S.-EU
Cooperation at a Crossroads," in Brussels, Belgium, June 29-July
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The meeting, presented by the American Association of Airport
Executives (AAAE), the International Association of Airport
Executives (IAAE) and the GAMA, in collaboration with the European
Commission (EC) and EUROCONTROL, will bring together more than 100
leaders from regulatory and policy authorities, airports, airlines,
manufacturers, air traffic control, and security experts to dissect
the political, economic and technical issues that confront the
transatlantic aviation relationship today.
The agenda features a top cast of
experts: Daniel Calleja, air transport policy director at the
European Commission; David McMillan, director general of
Eurocontrol; Susan Kurland, assistant secretary for international
affairs and aviation at the U.S. Department of Transportation;
Brian Simpson, chairman of the European Parliament's Transport
Committee; John Hickey, deputy associate administrator for aviation
safety at the FAA; Bill Hemmings, of the Transport and Environment
NGO; Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus, secretary general of the Association
of European Airlines; Rob Wilson, president of Honeywell Business
and General Aviation and chairman of the General Aviation
Manufacturers Association; Jean Rosanvallon, president and CEO of
Dassault Falcon Jet; Rosemarie Andolino, commissioner of aviation
for the City of Chicago; Carl Burleson, director of the FAA's
Office of Environment and Energy, and representatives from the
European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), the Transportatio n
Security Administration (TSA), U.S. and European airlines,
manufacturers and other aviation organizations.
The speakers will focus on such topical items as the appropriate
response to volcanic ash, the potential consequences of the failure
to implement the US-EU aviation safety agreement, the US-EU Open
Skies agreement, the environment, the global shift to
satellite-based air traffic management systems, the status of
aviation security, and more.
The event takes place at the Conrad Brussels Hotel.