ILA2004 will fill an additional hall when it opens at Berlin-Brandenburg on 10 May, say its organisers who are exhibiting at Dubai 2003 (stand W735).
The show is set against the backdrop of the ongoing eastern EU and NATO enlargement process. German chancellor Gerhard Schröder will open the show, giving it top level government endorsement. The whole of the German parliament will visit, as will air force commanders from both East and West.
Commercial aviation companies will have additional display space in Halls 3 – the new one – and 6. In the aviation maintenance sector, new customers such as TAP (Portugal) and Alitalia have registered their participation.
Additional space for the HeliCenter, which made a successful debut in 2002, will accommodate manufacturers, suppliers, associations and operators. The General Aviation Avenue will also be subject to high quality enlargement efforts, and now that it has its own hall with space for exhibitors from corporate aviation, its standing will increase even further.
Efficient
These new measures affecting the infrastructure of the southern section of Berlin-Schönefeld Airport mean that the ILA will be even more thematically organised, with shorter and more efficient route distribution.
Some 60 conferences will form part of ILA2004, drawing several thousand experts from around the globe to Berlin.
In pride of place is the 21st International Workshop on Global Security and a Broader Concept of Security for the 21st Century, which expects delegates from 25 states including members of government. German defence minister Peter Struck is its patron.
The Airbus Ministers Conference will be attended by ministers responsible for the Airbus project from Germany, France, Great Britain and Spain.
Source: Flight Daily News
