Open Skies: Boon or Barrier for Business

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Key Note Presentation – Open Skies

With an academic background in Transport Economics, Dr. George Williams has extensive international lecturing experience and has written three books and over 50 papers and research reports all exploring the impact of deregulation on the airline industry. In 1998 he was appointed Special Adviser to the UK House of Lords European Communities Committee enquiry into the Commission’s proposals to extend its powers to apply existing competition provisions to air services between the EU and third countries. He has led major studies into airline service provision in Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK on behalf of the European Commission, Government departments, regulatory authorities, airlines and airport authorities. He heads the Centre for Air Transport in Remoter Regions, which organises a bi-annual international Forum devoted to issues concerning air transport provision in Remoter Regions, the most recent of which took place in Lisbon in April 2007. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

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Presenter:
Dr. George Williams, Reader in Airline Economics, Department of Air Transport, Cranfield University

Stakeholders Speak Out: Manchester Edition

Stakeholders Speak Out: Manchester Edition
Panel Presentations/Discussion on Open Skies consisting of representatives from the major stakeholders; airlines, trains, and corporate travel buyers along with the academic perspective to round out the discussion.

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