The honeymoon is over and newlyweds NBAA and EBAA are even happier about their EBACE union than they were after last year’s inaugural European Business and Aviation Convention (now Conference) and Exhibition.
Although EBACE number two–held May 28 to 30 at the same Palexpo venue in Geneva, Switzerland, as EBACE 2001–did not entice exhibitors to make the really big announcements attendees at annual NBAA conventions and biennial Paris and Farnborough airshows have come to expect, it did gain respect for what many exhibitors called the “high quality of the EBACE visitors.” Translated, that euphemism means, “people who can afford to buy a multi-million-dollar aircraft.” Boeing Business Jets president Lee Monson said he even prefers EBACE to the NBAA convention, where most visitors to BBJ’s booth are pilots. “Which is fine,” he explained, “but here in Geneva we see more principals than anywhere else, people who have the ability to write a check.”
