Kraków ROUTES EUROPE ESSENTIALS
YOUR INDISPENSABLE GUIDE TO ROUTES EUROPE 2016, TAKING PLACE IN KRAKÓW, POLAND ON APRIL 23-26
Main Square, Kraków
Speakers to reveal all about Poland’s success
LOT has added 13 new routes
cities including Barcelona, Venice, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Yerevan, Zagreb and Belgrade. A further four new routes from Warsaw
to Luxembourg, Ljubljana, Athens and Kharkiv were added on the fi rst two days of March alone, while this number is expected to be doubled by the end of April to Košice in Slovakia, Cluj-Napoca in Romania, Nice and Beirut while increased frequencies elsewhere have also driven passenger numbers. Meanwhile, Dr Jan Pamula, Kraków
LOT Polish Airlines’ boss will be one of the key speakers addressing the Routes Europe Strategy Summit at a time when the airline is seeing considerable passenger growth. Rafal Milczarski, CEO and president of the management board, will be speaking at the event as the airline reports a 24% increase in passenger numbers in February following a jump of 17% in January. The numbers have been largely driven by 13 new routes, which have attracted passengers in the traditional quite period. In January, the airline introduced a
direct fl ight between Warsaw and Tokyo as well as connections with European
Airport’s president of the board, will give the welcome address at the event; he also takes to the stage at a time of signifi cant growth for his organisation. In 2015 the airport received 4.22 million passengers, up from 3.82 million in 2014. It has received 310,000 and 303,677 in February and January respectively and more than in each month in 2014.
Upcoming events Find out more about Routes Africa on p59-62 and World Routes 2016 on p64.
Fernando Estrada
13:50 on April 24: Who are the innovators and drivers of change in the European aviation market?
Chief strategy offi cer, Vueling
Estrada’s career at Vueling has seen him work in network planning, airport planning and slots before taking up his current
role. He also oversaw the merger between Vueling and clickair in 2009.
John Grant
09:50 on April 24: What Europe needs is... Partner, MIDAS Aviation
Grant has been a partner at MIDAS, which specialises in market intelligence, data analysis and strategy, since September 2015. Previously, he was EVP at OAG, and was MD at ASM from
September 2000 to February 2011.
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