EBACE 2014 Launches With Optimism
At the opening session of EBACE 2014, officials and guests expressed optimism.
Celebrating the formal opening of EBACE 2014 are (left to right) Ed Bolen, president and CEO, NBAA; André Kudelski, vice chairman of Geneva International Airport and chairman and CEO of Kudelski Group; Frank Brenner, director general of Eurocontrol; Roland Werner, state secretary of transport, Saxony state ministry for economic affairs, labor and transport; and Fabio Gamba, CEO, EBAA.
Celebrating the formal opening of EBACE 2014 are (left to right) Ed Bolen, president and CEO, NBAA; André Kudelski, vice chairman of Geneva International Airport and chairman and CEO of Kudelski Group; Frank Brenner, director general of Eurocontrol; Roland Werner, state secretary of transport, Saxony state ministry for economic affairs, labor and transport; and Fabio Gamba, CEO, EBAA.

Stating that he believes the worst years of the global economic downturn are behind us, EBAA CEO Fabio Gamba welcomed the audience to the opening session kicking off EBACE 2014 yesterday morning with “confidence that 2014 is going to be, if not a defining moment, certainly a positive and exciting one.” He cited this year’s total of 499 exhibitors, an amount which is up 8 percent over last year’s tally, along with a 4 percent rise in occupied exhibit space. While the static display has the same number of aircraft as in 2013, this year’s edition has attracted more of the larger aircraft, which challenged show organizers to fit them all. “If nothing else I think its fair to say these numbers are a testimony of the confidence that the sector has in the future,” Gamba said.