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Airline Operations 2024 (with Aircraft Maintenance Special Session)

Set your calendar for the 2024 AGIFORS Airline Operations Conference, which will be held as usual with the Aircraft Maintenance Special Session.

The conference will be held starting the evening of Monday, June 10 and ending Friday afternoon, June 14, with Operations running in parallel with Maintenance.  Watch this space for final details, which will be posted as they develop.  

The location for this year's conference will be beautiful downtown Hamburg, Germany.

Speicherstadt Map - Hamburg, Germany - Mapcarta

The conference this year is being graciously hosted by:


Venue & Accommodation



Our conference venue is the Marriott Hotel in beautiful downtown Hamburg.


We have a block of rooms for the first 60 delegates to reserve available at a discounted rate of 240 at the Marriott, and an additional 60 rooms at a rate of 220 at the Renaissance Hotel, 3 blocks away.  Reservations will be available for the duration of the conference and the day before and after the conference at this rate.

Book your room now HERE

Transportation

The conference venue/hotel is located downtown, approximately 30 minutes from the Hamburg Airport and is accessible by taxi for approximately €40.

Sponsorship

Gold Level US$5,000

Silver Level US$3,500

Collins Aerospace

Bronze Level US$2,000


AGIFORS sets its registration fees for airline staff and academics as low as possible. The philosophy behind this is that academics are likely to enter new lines of thought into our field, and having a strong presence by airlines brings great value to both the vendors and the airlines. Sponsorships are used to lower the registration rates for airlines and academics.

Sponsorships are available at three levels: Gold: $5,000; Silver: $3,500; Bronze: $2,000.  The different levels give you differing capabilities to advertise your products in the presentation program and meeting events.  There are no more Gold sponsorships available, but at the Silver level you get to give a 15 minute sales presentation during the main technical program in the main part of the day.  All sponsors get an exhibit table in the exhibit/coffee break area.

For sponsorship as well as all conference logistical and organizational issues, please contact:

   Mike Irrgang

   Boeing

   michael.irrgang@agifors.org

Registration

  • Reduced registration will be offered for airline and academic members of $400
  • Vendor, industry, and sponsor members will all pay at a single higher rate of $1,100
  • All non-member delegates will pay an extra $100 for their category
  • All late registrants (after May 21) will pay an additional $100
  • Early cancellation will be free; late cancellation will incur a $200 charge
Register NOW  HERE

Agenda & technical program

The theme of this year's conference is “Maximizing Operational Performance: Leveraging the Power of Data, Technology and Automation”.

However, we are always interested in interesting presentations of innovative work in these areas:

Flight Operations - Dispatch, flight planning, flight watch, weather data provision, operations control, ground to air communications and integration with crew, schedules and maintenance planning. Gate allocation, slot control, ATC and airport management; use of simulation and expert systems for the management of irregular operations.

Ground Resources - Management science techniques in reducing costs or increasing manpower effectiveness.  Determination of operational manpower requirements, optimal task allocation, production of efficient roster patterns, planning of employment, annual leave, training, reward systems and strategic planning of recruitment.

Maintenance - Information systems for Maintenance & Engineering and Materials functions. Maintenance planning and scheduling, aircraft reliability, fleet performance, operational efficiency, asset management, spare parts planning, manpower planning and training.  Aircraft data management and predictive maintenance.

We are soliciting your interest in presenting, and the topics you will wish to present.  Please contact the following individuals based on your topic area in order to discuss your potential 30 or 45 minute presentation. 

Submit abstracts

- for the Airline Operations conference at LINK 

- for the Aircraft Maintenance special session at LINK

All abstracts can be seen HERE , including a description of an interesting panel discussion we have planned.

Inquires for all airline operations presentations:

   Yuxi Xiao  

   American Airlines

   yuxi.xiao.agifors@gmail.com


Inquiries for all aircraft maintenance presentations:

   Rod Tjoelker

   Boeing

   maintenance@agifors.org


   Patrice Yapo

   American Airlines

   maintenance@agifors.org


** Important dates **

** Draft presentation deadline: 20 April 2024 **

** Final presentation deadline: 20 May 2024 **

Once we have the presentation abstracts, we will develop and post an agenda.

Please note that a fundamental guideline for AGIFORS Operations and Maintenance is that technical presentations cannot reference or advertise products or services.  These can only be referenced in sponsor presentations, which are under special rules for length and when they can be presented.  After the technical agenda for the conference, non-sponsor vendors will also be able to present a brief sales presentation.

Social Program

As we always do, we will have a nice social program:

  • If you arrive Monday before the start of the conference, we will have a group visit to one of Hamburg's most famous locations: The Miniatur Wunderland is, according to Guinness World Records, the largest model railway system in the world. Check it out on Wikipedia: Miniatur Wunderland.  For the visit, we convene at 1 p.m. at the Marriott hotel lobby to go together to Miniatur Wonderland
  • Monday evening we will have our usual meet & greet cocktail event, sponsored by a Gold Sponsor
  • Tuesday evening we will have a dinner cruise on the Elbe River.  This will be sponsored by one of our Gold Sponsors.
  • Wednesday and Thursday evenings we will have dinners - one in the hotel, and one at a restaurant, also sponsored by our Gold sponsors
  • On the Friday afternoon after the end of the conference, we will go to the Airbus factory for a tour of A320neo, A330 and A350 manufacturing
As an added attraction for many of you -- in Hamburg, the 2024 UEFA soccer tournament will be happening June 14-16, just after our conference!
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