Ebace 2012 Preview: Manufacturers Gather for Europe’s Must-attend Event
The 62 aircraft on static display at last year’s Ebace contrasted starkly with the economic gloom, and organizers expect this year’s show to have a similar turnout.
The 62 aircraft on static display at last year’s Ebace contrasted starkly with the economic gloom, and organizers expect this year’s show to have a similar turnout.

While Europe’s economies continue to struggle, and in some cases flirt with disaster, there might be a case for playing down expectations over prospects for the annual European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (Ebace). But the highly successful show has defied general economic pessimism in the years since the financial crisis took hold in the Old World in 2008, and the 2012 event (May 14 to 16) looks as if it could be no exception when it opens again in Geneva, one of Europe’s most prosperous cities.