Forum of ECAC Directors General
The ECAC Forum was established in 2008 to provide the Directors General of Civil Aviation of ECAC’s Member States with the opportunity to openly discuss strategic issues with potentially far-reaching national and international significance. This one-day event is organised back-to-back with the December meeting of Directors General in Paris.
During the Forum, Directors General are joined by senior representatives from the European Commission, EASA, ICAO and EUROCONTROL, and the debates are very much facilitated and enhanced by input from selected guest speakers mainly from the industry, as well as academics.
In previous years, the ECAC Forum has focused on the following issues:
- the security of the long-term supply of aviation fuel (2008)
- the passenger experience (2009)
- crisis management in aviation with a special emphasis on the spring 2010 volcanic ash episode (2010)
- the impact of intermodality on aviation (2011)
- air cargo (2012)
- the economics of airports (2013)
- European air transport – a vision for the future (2014)
- connectivity and economic development (2015)
- remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) (2016)
- how digitalisation is shaping the future of aviation (2017)
- sustaining aviation growth (2018)
- policies to address aviation environmental challenges (2019)
- COVID-19 crisis: from survival to recovery (2020)
- resilience of the air transport sector to crisis (2021)
- out of crisis: new normal or back to capacity crunch? (2022)