The 8th Ground Handling Russia & CIS conference and exhibition was held on September 26-27, 2017 at Moscow Renaissance Monarch Centre and gathered over 220 airport industry professionals from across Russia and beyond.

Ground Handling Russia & CIS has gained global recognition for providing ultimate advantages and first-class expertise for airports, airlines, GSE suppliers and service providers with its deep insight into ground handling market and industry trends in the region.The conference agenda reflected key trends and drivers for the extensive airport industry modernization in the region. International and domestic traffic growth is now followed by government and private investments into airport infrastructure and GSE fleets.

Impressive speaker line-up featured 30 top level experts from airports, airlines, handling companies and industry associations who shared their exclusive practical experience and offered new initiatives for enhancing the level of service and flight safety.

Airport and airport management participants 2016

Barnaul International Airport, Begishevo Airport, Vnukovo International Airport, V.I.P. International (Moscow Sheremetyevo), VIPPORT (Moscow Vnukovo), Pulkovo Cargo Terminal, Domodedovo Moscow Airport, Domodedovo Airport Handling, Basel Aero, A-GROUP, Dushanbe International Airport, Zhukovsky International Airport, Kazan International Airport, Northern Capital Gateway (Pulkovo), Simferopol International Airport, Khabarovsk Airport, Avia Solutions Group, UTG Aviation Services, Airport Saransk, Airport Roshchino, Tyumen, Airport Ulyanovsk, Airport Tolmachevo , Airports of North, Airports of Regions, Hibiny Airport, Ivanovo Airport, Kazan International Airport, Krasnodar International Airport, London - Heathrow, Manas International Airport (Bishkek), National Airport Minsk, Nizhnevartovskavia Airlines, Nizhnevartovsk Airport, Norilsk Cargo, Omsk Airport, Saratov Airport Tsentralny, Sheremetyevo International Airport, Tunoshna Airport, Volgograd International Airport, Belgorod International Airport, Dnata, Baltic Ground Services Russia, Jetex Flight Support, Sibir Cargo Service, Spire Flight Solutions

Key issues include

• Airports and airlines: interaction in gh
• Ground handling management and technology
• Improving passenger services: key trends and solutions
• Information technologies in russian airports: current situation and perspectives
• Aircraft de-icing technologies

Among Speakers 2017

John Hamshare,
Heathrow London Airport

Janne Suomalainen,
Finnair

Stefania Tomasini,
Airports Facilitation APCS Europe, IATA

Sergey Buchumov,
Lynden International MOW / AmRusTrans LLC

Gleb Golovtchenko,
RIVC Pulkovo

Gagik Grigoryan,
UTair Airlines

Alexey Zimin,
7RedLines

Igor Ivliev,
Aeroflot – Russian Airlines

Vladimir Kazakov,
Aeroflot - Russian Airlines

Ivan Kanushin,
Integro Technologies

Mikhail Makarov,
State Research Institute of Civil Aviation

Andrey Nikulin,
Sheremetyevo International Airport

Eduard Ovagimyan,
International Airport Sochi

Dmitry Ochkinas,
CAVAG

Evgeniy Petrov,
Domodedovo Moscow Airport

Ruslan Sarin,
IATA

Konstantin Sviridenko,
INFORM Software

Иван Канушин,
Integro Technologies

Roman Suldin,
International Airport Sochi

Vladimir Tasun,
Russian Air Transport Operators Association 

Viktor Titarev,
Raedium Aero

Dmitry Khartunyan,
Baltic Ground Services Russia

Participants testimonials

“Professional platform for the exchange of practical experience” — Yevgeny Plaksin, General Director, International Airport Simferopol

“It is so nice that this year a lot of attention was paid to the quality of service at airports, particularly the standard ground handling agreement issues. Thank you very much, very useful” — Anastasiya Vasina, Chief of Passenger Service, Kazan International Airport

“Carefully planned agenda and speakers. The atmosphere is very comfortable for professional networking” — Evgeny Demin, Ground Operations Manager, Volga-Dnepr Airlines

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Conference audience