21 November, 2024

XI Airport Sector Meeting, organised by ACI-LAC, hosted by GAP and ITAérea Mexico in Guadalajara

News - XI Sector Meeting

On November 10 to 12, 2024, the American interterritorial delegation of ITAérea together with ACI-LAC held the XI Airport Sector Meeting at the Hilton Guadalajara Midtown hotel in Mexico. More than 500 general directors of airports around the world attended the conference, who had the opportunity to share their ideas, experiences and vision on strategic issues for the airport sector.

The importance of this meeting required the collaboration of a multitude of prestigious institutions such as Airports Council International in the Latin American Region (ACI LAC). For this reason, the opportunity was taken to convene its Board of Directors and hold the General Assembly as a result of which the strategy for the following years was designed.

Different general directors of airports in the region attended this meeting to share their ideas, experiences and vision on strategic issues for the airport sector. This year the panel addressed topics such as:

The current situation of the airport industry in the Latin American-Caribbean region and worldwide.
Net Zero Commitment: where are we at?
Advanced Air Mobility.
The new commercial paradigm: non-aeronautical income.
The liberalization of Air Transport in the Latin American-Caribbean region.
Improving the passenger experience through process facilitation.
Airport Collaborative Decision Making (A-CDM) in the Latin America-Caribbean region.
Perspectives on tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The digital world: challenges and opportunities.
Improving the accessibility of airports.
Airports + Air Cargo in the Caribbean.

Furthermore, several important personalities such as directors and airport managers of the region debated strategic topics for airport management at the round tables:

Justin Erbacci, Director General de ACI WORLD.
Monika Infante, CEO de AERODOM y Presidenta de ACI-LAC.
Rafael Echevarne, Director General de ACI LAC.
Raúl Revuelta, CEO, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacífico – GAP
Miguel Enrique Vallín, Director General AFAC.
Vanessa Pérez Lamas, Secretaria de Turismo del Gobierno de Jalisco.
Juan José Salmón, CEO, Lima Airport Partners – LAP.
Natalí Leal, CEO, OPAIN.
Peter Cerdá, Regional VP IATA Americas.
Ricardo Dueñas, CEO, OMA.
Jorge Rosillo, CEO, ECOGAL.
Tiago Pereira, Director ANAC Brasil.
Evans Avendaño, CEO, Aeropuertos del Perú.
Julio Siu – Deputy Regional Director, ICAO NACC.

This sector meeting also had the participation of a multitude of companies in the sector such as ALG, HAS, MERA, ARCONAS, COLLINS AEROSPACE, EXOLUM, INTERVISTAS, NACO, DUFRY, SITA, etc.

After more than a decade being part of the aeronautical sector, ITAérea Aeronautical Business School has managed to train 100% of airport managers in Latin America. Its international implementation was the initial objective of the School. Today we not only provide training in Europe but also in Africa and Asia.

Sector meetings such as the one described are good proof of this as sector managers from all continents have attended these three days.