Oman- OAMC to host international airport conference from Dec 5
Date
11/6/2017 5:17:10 AM
(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- Hundreds of top executives from across the world will gather at the Airport Exchange conference in Muscat from December 5-7. The biggest annual event of the Airports Council International (ACI), will be hosted by the Oman Airports Management Company (OAMC) at the Oman convention & exhibition Centre.
The theme for the conference will be, 'Leading Airports towards Operational Excellence, Profitability and Customer Service'.
The ACI conference comes to Oman at a time of significant growth, with the opening of the new airport at Salalah recently and the soon-to-open new Muscat International Airport. The event will also offer industry professionals in Oman a great networking opportunity and the option to explore new international markets. Sheikh Ayman bin Ahmed al Hosni, CEO, OAMC said, 'The conference has received great interest by the governments in the Middle East and so far 1,500 people and 50 exhibitors have registered for the event.
'The exhibition will also see the participation of 120 speakers.' Elaborating on the conference, Sheikh Hosni said there will be four sessions and the themes include airport operation, digital innovation, data, security, crisis management and airport development. The OAMC will participate in each session by presenting several papers.'
Talking about passenger growth rate at the Muscat airport, he said, 'The airport was recently named the fastest growing airport in the Middle East, and the number of passengers expected to use it will reach 14mn passengers by the end of this year.'
He added that the Salalah Airport is expected to be among the top ten airports in the world with the number of passengers likely to touch 2,800,000 by the first quarter of next year. Sheikh Hosni also said that passengers passing through Sohar Airport reached 10,000 per month, adding that the facilities that were granted led to an increase in air traffic. These include reduction of the landing and parking fees.
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