AVEX: Bringing home international business opportunities
John Nicholson
Chief Executive
Aviation NZ
10 October 2008
Hamilton
Overview
• The World is awash with opportunity
• Why Aviation NZ was created
• What does Aviation NZ do
• How can I benefit
• Bringing home those opportunities
Opportunities Abound
• The wide body backlog is 2,421 aircraft, narrow body 5236, regional 391 and turboprop 314’ Flight Insight June 2008
• ‘IndiGo will take delivery of 100 A320s’ Bruce Ashby CEO Oct 2008
• ‘Embraer commits US$1.1b to develop business jet’ Aviation Week Oct 2008
• ‘Inability to produce sufficient numbers of first officers limits future growth’ Orient Aviation Oct 2008
• ‘Singapore outsources basic flight training’ StrategyPage.com Sep 2008
• ‘Civil rotary wing market in major upswing’ AeroStrategy June 2008
Or do they???• ‘Global airlines headed for US$5.2b loss this
F/Y’ IATA Sep 2008
• International Lease Finance Corporation up for sale’ news.airwise Oct 2008
• ‘Fuel prices and unstable financial markets result in pilot layoffs’ Orient Aviation Oct 2008
• ‘Airports Council International sees two-year traffic slowdown’ ACI announcement Sep 2008
• ‘Boeing consolidates training under Alteon brand’ Boeing release Oct 2008
Aviation NZ
• Champions international development• Encourage scale through collaboration• Connects customers to NZ solutions• Works through industry champions• Works with industry• Works with agencies including NZTE, AIA
Aviation NZ Differentiators
• Aviation NZ will only focus on the larger scale business opportunities otherwise unattainable by small disaggregated businesses
• Opportunities where scale and breadth of offer is a differentiator
General Awareness ProjectNeed• Upgrade profile• Independent verification of industry
Response• Brand developed• Promotional program started • Website reconfigured and copy developed
Aviation Training Project
• Ian Calvert CTC Aviation and Kevin England, Air Hawkes Bay leading
• MoU developed
• India Focus
MRO Project
• Aim to build better understanding of capabilities across NZ
• Encourage greater collaboration
• Identify higher value business opportunities
Other Activities
• Regulatory Barriers eg EASA
• China Research
• India Programme
• Philippines Visitor
• Facilitate contacts, encourage networking
Summary• There are lots of opportunities
• Aviation NZ created to encourage collaboration, achieve scale and present NZ solutions
• Programmes in place to bring home opportunities
• Welcomes participation
