
Benjamin Smith
CEO, Air France-KLM
In a pivotal electoral year for the EU, the Aviation Summit will examine how European aviation and its airlines have evolved in recent years and how they have become a key cog in facilitating free movement of goods, people and services that are central to the EU’s success.
At a time of global uncertainty and challenges, the Summit will ask how we nurture and sustain Europe’s airline and wider aviation sectors to be globally competitive, how we can complete the single aviation market, while also ensuring a successful energy transition that is crucial for European aviation reaching its target of Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.
10.30-11.20
11.00-11.30
11.30-11.45
Ourania Georgoutsakou, Managing Director, Airlines for Europe
11.45-12.00
Georges Gilkinet, Deputy Prime-Minister and Federal Mobility Minister of Belgium
12.00-12.50
Hosted by Florence Ranson, CEO and Founder, REDComms
Jack Chambers, Minister of State for Transport, Environment, Climate and Communications of Ireland
Steve Heapy, CEO, Jet2
Carlos Muñoz, CEO, Volotea
Rachel Smit, Member of Cabinet for Adina Vălean, Commissioner for Transport, European Commission
12.50-13.05
Christian Scherer, CEO, Airbus Commercial Aircraft
13.05-14.05
14.05-14.55
Hosted by Richard Quest, International Business Correspondent, CNN
Benjamin Smith, CEO, Air France-KLM
Carsten Spohr, CEO, Lufthansa
Johan Lundgren, CEO, easyJet
Luis Gallego, CEO, IAG
Michael O’Leary, CEO, Ryanair
14.55-15.15
15.15-16.15
Hosted by Dan Michaels, Brussels Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal
Julia Reinaud, Senior Director Europe, Breakthrough Energy
Kaspars Briškens, Minister of Transport of Latvia
Christophe Grudler, Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe
Martin Gauss, CEO, airBaltic
16.15-16.30
Wopke Hoekstra, European Commissioner for Climate action, European Commission
16.30-16.40
Ourania Georgoutsakou, Managing Director, Airlines for Europe
16.40

CEO, Air France-KLM
CEO, Volotea

CEO, Lufthansa
CEO, Airbus Commercial Aircraft

Member of the European Parliament, Renew Europe
Brussels Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal
CEO and Founder, REDComms

Deputy Prime-Minister and Federal Mobility Minister of Belgium
Minister of State for Transport, Environment, Climate and
Communications of Ireland

CEO, easyJet
Senior Director, Europe at Breakthrough Energy
Minister of Transport of Latvia

CEO, IAG
CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board, airBaltic

CEO, Ryanair

Managing Director, Airlines for Europe

Member of Cabinet for Adina Vălean, Commissioner for Transport, European Commission

International Business Correspondent, CNN
CEO, Jet2

European Commissioner for Climate action, European Commission