Brussels Airport Wins Europe's Top Industry Award

Tallinn, Estonia (ots/PRNewswire) -

Brussels Airport was announced as the overall winner of the third
heat of this year's Routes Airport Marketing Awards last night at a
spectacular networking evening at the Song Festival Grounds in
Tallinn. Almost 900 aviation professionals, and the President of
Estonia, were gathered to witness the presentation of the awards and
to take part in the largest Routes Europe event to date.

The Routes Airport Marketing Awards have become synonymous with
recognising and rewarding the highest standards of marketing
activities undertaken by airports. The awards work on the core
principle that the people who are best placed to judge an airport's
marketing activities are the airlines. Airlines from the European
region have spent the last few months voting for the airports they
felt deserved to win and their votes were based on an airport's
marketing activities over the past year.

The overall winner, Brussels Airport, demonstrated a clear route
development strategy and implementation process in their awards
submission and illustrated clearly how they have worked with their
airline customers. Winning this regional heat now enables them to be
automatically shortlisted for the World Routes Awards due to be held
in Abu Dhabi later this year.

David Stroud, Executive Vice President Airports, Routes, said:
"We are delighted that Brussels has won this regional heat of our
awards and will now compete in the World Routes Airport Marketing
Awards later this year."

Speaking just after receiving the award, Leon Verhallen, Director
of Aviation Marketing, said: "We were thrilled to be firstly
nominated by our clients again - as that is the most important step -
but it is wonderful to be selected as the overall winner for the
European region. We put together a very thorough submission that
showed the important relationship between the airport and its airline
partners and a special animation helped to support this. Crucially,
we did this with one of the most enthusiastic and best teams in the
world."

The Routes Airport Marketing Awards were split into 3
sub-regional categories; Northern Europe, Mediterranean & Southern
Europe and Central & Eastern Europe, with a new category being
introduced this year for airports of under 4million passengers.
Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen was crowned winner of the Mediterranean and
Southern Europe category, Prague Airport triumphed in the Central &
Eastern category and Bremen topped the under 4m pax category.

A complete list of the nominated airports in each category can be
found below:

Northern Europe
Brussels Airport - WINNER
Amsterdam Airport- HIGHLY COMMENDED
Hamburg Airport - HIGHLY COMMENDED
Zurich Airport
Central & Eastern Europe
Prague Airport - WINNER
Warsaw Chopin Airport - HIGHLY COMMENDED
Budapest Airport - HIGHLY COMMENDED
Mediterranean & Southern Europe
Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport - WINNER
Antalya Airport - HIGHLY COMMENDED
Athens International Airport - HIGHLY COMMENDED
Malaga Airport
Under 4 million
City Bremen Airport - WINNER
Friedrichshafen Airport - HIGHLY COMMENDED
Ajaccio Airport
Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport

Overall Winner - Brussels Airport

Notes to Editors

About Routes

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through its regional and global Route Development Forums. Each year, there is one
global event and one regional event in Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and CIS
respectively. http://www.routesonline.com
- Routes was founded in 1995 as part of the Manchester UK?based ASM Ltd., a
consultancy specialising in the field of route development for airports.
http://www.asm-global.com
- Routes and ASM were acquired by UBM Aviation Worldwide Ltd in August 2010.
Routes is a UBM Aviation brand. UBM Aviation specialises in the supply of data and
information products, market intelligence, news and events related to the global
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