Doha welcomes aviation leaders
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Doha is gearing up to welcome nearly 1,000 attendees for the International Air Transport Association (IATA) 70th Annual General Meeting (AGM) and World Air Transport Summit. The event will take place from 1-3 June 2014, under the patronage of the Emir of Qatar, His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani.
“Doha will be the centre of the air transport industry next week as its leaders discuss important commercial aviation-related issues of our times: safety, security, environment, distribution and financial sustainability among others,” said Tony Tyler, IATA’s Director General and CEO.
This will be the fourth time that the AGM is hosted in the Middle East. Aviation in the region supports some two million jobs and US$116 billion in economic activity. “The AGM will be a major event for aviation in the Middle East, and particularly for airlines based in the Gulf region. In just over a decade, share of global traffic accounted for by Middle East airlines increased from four to nine percent. Much of this growth has been realized here in the Gulf,” said Tyler.
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