IATO Special - XXIII Annual Convention, September 1-8, 2007

DAY ONE: SESSIONS
Session One: Regulators and airline panel discussion
Session Two: Etihad's growth story in India: Understanding the role of Middle East airlines in serving the US / Europe and India market
Session Three: CEO Executive Interview: The Aviation Leadership Challenge
Session Four: Driving India aviation growth through OEMRO Partnership
Session Five: Panel discussion - Crafting the right revenue management strategies to achieve maximum yield and profitability
Session Six: Jet Airways' revenue management strategy - Developing new value propositions for the passenger market in face of stiffening competition
Session Seven: Customer Focused Enterprise: The Airline of the future
Session Eight: Panel discussion - Leveraging technological enablers to boost the efficiency of airline systems and business processes
Session Nine: SpiceJet's success story: Creating an effective on-line distribution strategy to boost revenue streams via the internet
Session Ten: Case Study presentation on Changi Airport International: Leveraging on the new investment opportunities arising from India's recent Merchant airport Programme

DAY ONE: NEWS
Leading Indian carriers in talks with AeroMobile for air mobile services


Session Ten :

Case Study presentation on Changi Airport International: Leveraging on the new investment opportunities arising from India's recent Merchant airport Programme


By Arti Saggi | Mumbai

Changi Airport International (CAI), in order to expand in the Indian market is looking forward for the government to issue Public Private Partnership (PPP) tenders for the Navi Mumbai and Greater Noida Greenfield airports. They are looking forward to invest on the city side development of 24 non-metro airports and are also keen on partnering in the Merchant airports coming up in Tier-II and III cities of the country.

The last session of the day explored CAIs overall experience when investing in Indian airports. Changi Airport International is partnering Bengal Aerotopolis Projects Ltd. for the proposed Durgapur Aerotropolis – the first private Aerotropolis in India under the newly introduced Merchant Airport Programme. This has paved the way for fully privatised airports in India that are 100 per cent owned by private developers. This airport is expected to attract a total investment of USD 2.5 billion. In Durgapur CAI is involved in detailed engineering and training.

Commenting on CAIs plans and experiences on their participation in Aerotopolis, NG Tim Peng, Regional Vice President (India), Changi Airports International Pvt. Ltd. said, "We have agreed to participate in the Aerotopolis as we have built such Aerotopolis earlier and have some experience." The airports will be built by the private sector, facilitated by the state government in land acquisition. There is a single window clearance and 400 potential sites have already been identified. Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh have issued Expression of Interest (EOI) in last six months.