Routes Europe Sees its Strongest Airline Attendance to Date

Manchester, England (ots/PRNewswire) -

In six weeks time, Europe's aviation community will meet at Routes
Europe, taking place 12-14 May. Over 100 Airlines are expected to
attend Routes Europe in 2013 and already almost 200 airline delegates
representing 96 carriers have registered to attend the event
confirming that this year is set to be the biggest gathering yet of
Europe's key decision makers.

Now in its 8th year, Routes Europe is the only network planning
forum for the entire European region and the 2013 event, hosted by
Budapest Airport, will take place in Budapest, the beautiful historic
capital of Hungary. Routes Europe brings together over 800 delegates
from airports, airlines, tourism authorities and other industry
stakeholders from across Europe to discuss air service development.

"The large number of airlines and the seniority of the delegates
attending Routes Europe in Budapest, demonstrates the value that the
event can offer to Europe's largest airlines," says Paul Winfield,
Airline Relations Director for Routes. "Being able to source key data
and intelligence for new routes, and being able to meet their
existing partners to ensure the success of existing routes under one
roof is invaluable," he added.

The Low Cost and Regional sectors will be well represented in
Budapest with Low Cost Carriers easyJet, Norwegian, Wizz Air,
Germanwings, Air Berlin, Volotea and Vueling amongst those registered
to attend, including senior representatives from airlines such as
Wizz Air, whose CEO, Josef Varadi will attend, and Jet2.com's
recently appointed CEO, Steve Heapy. The regional market is also well
served by carriers including Skywork Airlines, Cityjet, Darwin
Airline, Eurolot, Flybe, Blue Islands and TAROM.

For airports wishing to meet with European network carriers,
attendees include Air France, British Airways, Iberia, Lufthansa,
SAS, CSA Czech Airlines, Turkish Airlines and Swiss International
Airlines, whilst out of region presence comes from American Airlines,
China Southern Airlines, Air Transat, Etihad Airways and Emirates.
The CIS market is also well represented with confirmed attendance
from Aeroflot, S7, Rossiya and UTAir. The event will also see a first
time attendance from Reykjavik based WOW Air along with out of region
carriers UPS, SriLankan Airlines and Nordwind.

In addition to the Face-to-Face meetings at the core of the event
there will be a strong programme of airline briefings taking place in
Budapest including Lufthansa delivered by Director of Network
Planning, Dr Sebastien Hollmeier and CCO of Darwin Airline, Christian
Schneider amongst others.

Routes Europe continues to grow at a tremendous rate in terms of
airline participation with airlines afforded the time and choice to
meet airports, not just to discuss potential new air service
development but also to meet existing airports to discuss route
performance.

Notes to Editors

About Routes

- Routes organises world-renowned airline and airport networking events
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.
From 1st August 2012 Routes, ASM and the Airport Cities Conference and Exhibition
become part of the UBM Live division of UBM plc.
- UBM Live connects people and creates opportunities for companies across five
continents to develop new business, meet customers, launch new products, promote their
brands and expand their markets. Through premiere brands such as MD&M, CPhI, IFSEC,
TFM&A, Cruise Shipping Miami, the Concrete Show, the Routes portfolio of events,
Airport Cities and many others, UBM Live exhibitions, conferences, awards programs,
publications, websites and training and certification programs are an integral part of
the marketing plans of companies across more than 20 industry sectors.
http://www.ubmlive.com

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Contact:
For further press information please contact: Victoria Jones, PR
Executive, Routes, T: +44-(0)161-234-2730, E: pr@routesonline.com