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 1.

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.

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