The European Aviation Conference 2024 (EAC 24) is approaching. We used October’s webinar on Monday 28th, to share more details about this year’s EAC conference with you (see the below-attached picture). What is the logic behind the agenda, who are the speakers and panelists, and what can you expect? All these questions were answered in the October webinar. The speakers were Dan Elliott (Frontier Economics) and Bill Morrison (Wilfried Laurier University). The webinar was moderated by Andrew Charlton.

Earlier this year a passenger-carrying pilotless eVTOL has obtained a production certificate in China. This is considered a significant leap towards mass production. So, some wonder, what’s the commercial potential of such passenger and, of course, cargo services? This question was discussed in the September webinar.

We had three guest speakers joining the discussion. Anna Straubinger from the Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research Mannheim in Germany, Amin Vafadar from the Advanced Air Mobility Institute in Boston (US), and Philip Butterworth-Hayes who is the Editor of Unmanned Airspace (https://www.unmannedairspace.info/). The webinar was moderated by Andrew Charlton.

The EACI/GARS webinars usually take place every last Monday of a month at 1 pm CEST. Please mark the dates in your calendar! If you are new to the series, please register at: https://forms.office.com/r/TN0Wse1sAd

The August webinar shaded light on the relationships among five associations. The associations are (in alphabetical order) the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), the European Aviation Conference Institute (EACI), the German Aviation Research Society (GARS), the International Transportation Economics Association (ITEA), and the Symposium on Aviation Research (SOAR). Guest speakers are Martin Dresner from the University of Maryland for ATRS, Erik Verhoef from VU Amsterdam for ITEA, Gianmaria Martini from the University of Bergamo for SOAR, and I from The HK PolyU for EACI and GARS. Andrew Charlton from Aviation Advocacy was so kind to moderate the webinar.

This is the July webinar of our monthly series of webinars. The webinars take place every last Monday of a month at 1 pm CE(S)T. Please mark the dates in your calendar!

The guest speaker is Gary Cutts. He is the Challenge Director of the Future Flight, UK Research and Innovation initiative involving a £300m programme to research, plan and demonstrate new integrated systems of aviation using low-carbon and autonomous technologies. We are pleased to announce that Gary will be one of the keynote speakers at this year’s European Aviation Conference hosted by the University of Antwerp in Belgium. The moderator is Andrew Charlton (Aviation Advocacy). For more information, check https://youtu.be/8yDNVXMGSpUv.

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In an extra edition of our series of monthly webinars, we have already discussed the US approach towards the greening of aviation. This month’s regular edition of the webinar series, concentrates on EU aviation policies. The guest speaker is Damien Meadows. He is an Advisor on European and International Carbon Markets of the European Commission’s DG Climate Action. He also is a contributor to a recently published book titled “Delivering a Climate Neutral Europe” published by Routledge (who also kindly sponsors the GARS Junior Award with book vouchers). The moderator is Andrew Charlton (Aviation Advocacy).

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The moderator was Andrew Charlton (Aviation Advocacy).  The guest speaker was Samar Abbas Nawaz (Peace Research Institute, Oslo).