Dubai Airport Exhibition concludes successfully on beyond-expectation response

• Published date: 19 May 2022
• Publication title: LETA

The 21st edition of the annual Dubai Airport Exhibition, the largest annual airport event in the world, concluded successfully as it received response from the industry exceeding expectations, despite the multiple challenges facing the civil aviation sector worldwide.

A majority of exhibitors confirmed their participation in the exhibition next year, which will be held in May 2023.

Exhibitors and participants said that the exhibition was an opportunity to meet and make deals which gave strong impetus to the global airport industry, amid high growth rates achieved by passenger traffic worldwide during the past six months. As it is, the Show was held amidst clear indications of rebound of growth in aviation industry.

Organised by RX Global (Reed Exhibitions), the world's largest airport industry B2B platform, the exhibition had a sharp focus on sustainability to help the airport community in achieving a more sustainable airport industry that is aiming to reduce carbon footprint year on year.

The Airport Show displayed products and services from over 150 exhibitors and more than 20 countries, along with over 5,000 trade visitors and experts from the aviation industry.

The organisers said there were 100 hosted buyers and 33 entities from 18 countries. The Show facilitated 3,556 business meetings.

Firas Abu Ltaif, Exhibition Manager at RX Global (Reed Exhibitions), said, "The participation and response from exhibitors from across the world was beyond our expectation especially when the event was organised after the pandemic-induced disruption in the aviation industry. It is heartening that a majority of exhibitors and participants confirmed that they will participate in the 2023 edition of Airport Show. We expect a much more participation next year when the aviation industry will be fully recovered."

The Airport Show was supported by Dubai Airports, Dubai Police, Dubai Civil Aviation Authority (DCAA), dnata (part of Emirates Airline and Group), Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects (DAEP), Global Air Navigation Services (GANS) and Dubai Air Navigation Services (dans).

Participants have reported they could explore collaborations and joint ventures and several companies have signed sizable deals with prospective partners. They also expressed extreme satisfaction as they received tremendous response from other participants and stakeholders which would be translated into future collaboration and strengthening of business relationships.

Khalid Ahmed Bamugabil, Senior...