A Parisian Executive Committee as a prelude to the Abidjan General Meeting
On June 21, 2024, the ATAF Executive Committee was held at the Aéroclub de France in Paris.
After a presentation of the economic environment of Air Transport made by the Roland Berger Cabinet, the committee validated the agenda of our next General Assembly which will be held in Abidjan on Saturday, November 23, 2024, at the invitation of General Abdoulaye Coulibaly, President of Air Côte d’Ivoire and President of ATAF, under the high patronage of the Ivorian State.
In addition to the traditional items on the agenda (Air Transport news, ATAF news, account validation, new entrants, etc.).
The 4 round tables that will structure our AGM will be as follows:
- How can ATAF companies assess their financial strategy,
- The air transport industry faces a shortage of qualified personnel (pilots, engineers, mechanics, etc.),
- Artificial Intelligence in the service of air transport,
- Airlines face cyberattacks,
- Crisis management
December Seminar: “The Economic Challenges of Airlines Based on Cost Analysis”
The next seminar offered by ATAF will be held on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.
This seminar, hosted by Mr. Frédéric Gagey, former President of Air France, ex. DG Economy and Finance of Air France-KLM will be held in the lounge on the 1st floor of our premises in Montreuil:
ATAF
Altaïs Tower – Gate 3
1, Place Aimé Césaire
93100 MONTREUIL
The purpose of this seminar is to approach the economic and financial challenges of airlines. These challenges are multiple:
- Cost of fuel,
- fleet investments,
- maintenance costs,
- full ownership/operational lease choice for aircraft ownership,
- cost of a loyalty program, etc.
We propose to go through the published accounts of several airlines and to question on each line the meaning of the accounting aggregate, then to broaden to the identification of the factors influencing the value of the aggregate and the various underlying economic and financial issues.
This is not an accounting course, but a research using the accounting tool to extract the financial and economic meaning for airlines.
The analysis will be based on the triptych: Income statement (P&L) / Balance sheet / Cash flow statement, the starting points for any financial analysis.
We hope that through these shared experiences you will enrich your analysis of an airline’s financial documents and better understand the challenges of the aviation world.
Target Audience:
This seminar is offered mainly to General Managers and/or Financial Directors and/or Management Control Managers.
Senegalese TRANSAIR signs distribution agreement with Sabre
Transair Group flights are now available on Sabre’s reservation system (Global Distribution System-GDS). On Wednesday, October 18, 2023, the Senegalese private airline received a delegation from the IT service provider at its headquarters in Dakar (Senegal) to celebrate its integration into its system. An integration that gives it a presence in 15 African countries, with an opening to the American and English-speaking markets.
Sabre, headquartered in Southlake, Texas, specializes in travel-related technology and software and operates in more than 160 countries, including Senegal.
Review of the 129th ATAF General Assembly
The ATAF General Assembly was held on October 13 and 14, 2023 in Toulouse at the invitation of Airbus and the valuable support of Aercap, in the presence of all ATAF member companies as well as Boeing, exceptionally invited to the event.
The event was an opportunity for fruitful discussions around round tables on various subjects such as decarbonization as well as trends in air transport and the strategy on the choice of the aircraft fleet.
The General Assembly was also the subject of a detailed presentation of the ADPS distribution solution proposed by ATAF in partnership with APG, concerning the implementation of NDC rates proposed by Airlines.
Furthermore, the applications of Embraer, Impact Consultants, ATR, Pratt & Whitney Canada were approved by the Executive Committee as new members.
The calendar of upcoming ATAF events:
Upcoming events organized by ATAF will take place on the following dates:
Thursday September 21, 2023
Seminar “Risk Management: Control of Operational Risks”
Hosted by Jean PEYROT, Former Director and member of the Air France Audit Committee
Wednesday September 27, 2023
“Fleet Strategy and Management” Seminar
Hosted by Frank Terner, CEO of Air France Industrie and former CEO of Air France
From Friday 13 to Sunday 15 October 2023
ATAF General Assembly
In Toulouse
An Executive Committee at Le Bourget
While all the international excellence of aeronautics was gathered for the air show at Le Bourget airport, ATAF held its exceptional executive committee this Wednesday, June 21, in the form of a lunch of meetings and exchanges between the different members of the Association.
Almost all of the member companies were present, as well as partners including the manufacturers ATR, Airbus and Embraer, as well as the lessor Aércap, Sixt and also Allianz, which has been working alongside ATAF for several years now.
A meal which was an opportunity to celebrate the agreements put in place during the year such as those between Air Algérie and Mauritania Airlines or the sales contract signed the same day between Airbus and Air Algérie.
ATAF at Paris Air Forum
For ten editions, the #ParisAirForum has brought together, deciphered, analyzed, debated; transforming the “PAF” into an unmissable event for the sector for speakers, the press, and the public. A place for exchange and meeting, it highlights the role of aerospace as a pillar of international industrial dynamism through its ability to innovate and invent sustainable solutions that shine and benefit all of our societies.
On this occasion, ATAF was invited to participate in a round table on the theme “Can Africa take off?”. Jean-Claude CROS was able to represent the association and speak on this topic with other players in the African aviation sector.
More information on this meeting day in this article from the Tribune
NEWS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY
ATAF is finally active on social networks. Developed in partnership with NEWSAERO https://www.newsaero.info/, the specialist aviation media in Africa, you can now find all the news of our members on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Do not hesitate to click on the links below to follow these pages:
The calendar of upcoming ATAF events:
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 ATAF Executive Committee Annual Lunch At the Aéroclub de France in the heart of the Paris Air Show Thursday, September 21, 2023 “Risk Management: Control of Operational Risks” Seminar Led by Jean PEYROT, Former Director and member of the Air France Audit Committee Wednesday, September 27, 2023 “Fleet Strategy and Management” Seminar Led by Frank Terner, CEO of Air France Industrie and former CEO of Air France From Friday, October 13 to Sunday, October 15, 2023 ATAF General Assembly In Toulouse
ATAF offsets its 2022 carbon emissions
Following the announcement of the carbon neutrality objective made at the 128th ATAF General Assembly by Claude Thenevin, ATAF Development Director, the association has subscribed to the compensation offer proposed by Carbon O.
In addition to ATAF’s current activity, which generated less than 1 tonne of CO2 in 2022, the travel of the forty or so members present at the General Assembly which took place in Mauritius in October 2022 generated more than 118 tonnes of CO2.
The amounts corresponding to the investment necessary to offset ATAF’s carbon emissions have thus been allocated to a solar farm project in Madagascar. The “clean” energy generated by these solar panels will be deducted from ATAF’s “carbon debt”.
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Four new members since October 2022
ATAF, which until now had 19 airlines and about fifteen partners from the aviation sector, has accepted the subscriptions of 4 new members. Among them is the return of Air Austral, which was already a member of ATAF from 1988 to 2011 and which returned to ATAF as a partner member in October 2022.
Another new registrant for October 2022, Brussels Airlines makes a timely entry among ATAF members, at a time when air traffic in Africa has returned to the pace of before 2019.
Arriving in November, Rogers Aviation, a subsidiary of the Rogers group already a member of ATAF, is the 22nd airline member of ATAF since November 2022.
Embraer, which had already participated in the 2019 General Assembly, also joined the ATAF partner members in November 2022, at the same time as the airline software publisher Maureva. Embraer is the 3rd manufacturer to approach ATAF after Airbus (associate sponsor at the AGM) and ATR.
Raphaël CROS
128th ATAF General Assembly:
The 128th ATAF General Assembly was held on October 1 and 2, 2022 in Mauritius at the Trou aux Biches hotel at the initiative of our partner the Rogers Group and the Beachcombers hotels with the support of Air Mauritius, the tourism authorities of Mauritius but also Aercap, Maureva, ATR Aircraft, Airbus and the Foucher, Corsair and Air France labels.
The Assembly was preceded on Friday afternoon, September 30 by the Executive Committee, which is made up of the Executive Office extended to the Presidents and/or General Managers of the member companies as well as the General Manager of the Rogers group as representative of the non-airline partners.
80 executives from all ATAF member companies were present to participate in the various round tables organized around three themes:
- Africa and long-haul travel,
- Fleet management and renewal,
- What responsible steps should be taken for the future of air travel?
This General Assembly also invited the main French-speaking representatives of tourism and travel to its work and is part of the resumption of post-COVID air traffic and a worrying climate context.
Raphaël CROS
ATAF/Edflex Subscription Renewal June 2021 to June 2022:
ATAF has extended the agreement signed last year with Edflex/My-Mooc which gives unlimited and free access to all staff of ATAF member companies to the training resources offered by Edflex, with this year the possibility of obtaining a free certification safeguarding certain training cycles.
127th ATAF General Assembly
The 127th ATAF General Assembly met in Nice on Saturday, October 30, 2021 at the invitation of Mr. Christian Estrosi, Mayor of Nice, and Ms. Anne Rigail, CEO of Air France.
