Maintenance, Engineering Meetings Collocated

Airline maintenance and engineering delegations will share a hotel and an opening session this year with the collocation of the annual AMC and AEEC conferences organized by ARINC Industry Activities (IA).

The AMC Annual Meeting and the AEEC General Session, co-sponsored by Avionics magazine, will take place March 30 through April 2 at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis in that city. Northwest Airlines, now a Delta subsidiary, will be host airline for both conferences.

“Our primary motivation is to get more benefit for the attendees, and more exposure for both aspects of [airline] operations,” said Greg Kuehl of UPS, who serves as AEEC chairman. “There are relationships between the specifications and the maintenance sides and there are interdependencies and common concerns. … For attendees in general, it’s more of a one-stop shop. Hopefully, we make their travel and their time more effective and more efficient.”