Airline Industry Legend Robert Crandall and CEO of World's Most Profitable Airline Highlight 2008 Airline Strategy Summit

LONDON, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert Crandall, the former longtime chairman and CEO of American Airlines who successfully led the carrier through the post-deregulation era, made headlines recently by suggesting some re- regulation of the airline industry. He will further explain his ideas on that matter and others at Airline Weekly's 2008 Airline Strategy Summit Nov. 17-18 in London. The event's other keynote speaker will be Dr. Temel Kotil, CEO of Turkish Airlines, which had the highest profit margin of any airline in the world during 2008's recently completed second quarter.

"Obviously, we're pleased to have both Mr. Crandall and Dr. Kotil at the summit," said Seth Kaplan, managing partner of Airline Weekly. "But the line- up doesn't slow down from there. I think anyone would be hard-pressed to find a more interesting gathering of brains in the airline industry."

Full details about the conference are available at http://www.airlineweekly.com/conference.htm

More than a dozen other airline CEOs and executives will speak at the conference, which will focus on "new approaches for a fast-changing global industry." Other participating airlines include Air France/KLM, by some measures the largest airline in the world; Brazil's TAM Airlines, the largest airline in South America; highly profitable and fast-growing LAN Airlines of Chile; Virgin Atlantic; South African Airways; Gulf Air of the rapidly growing Arabian Gulf Region; S7 Airlines, Russia's largest domestic airline, now pursuing its international expansion; Austrian Airlines; low-cost carriers from GOL, Latin America's largest, to SkyEurope and Clickair; and under-the- radar profitable carriers Flybe of Europe and Porter Airlines of Canada, which will discuss how creative aircraft and product decisions have helped them thrive while other airlines have struggled.

Topics include: Low-Cost Carriers in a High-Cost World; Are Airlines and the Environment Compatible?; "Engine"-eering a More Efficient Industry; and Where the Growth Is -- Middle East, Latin America, Russia, Africa and Asia.

The 2008 Airline Strategy Summit is sponsored by CFM International; AerCap; Rolls-Royce; Pratt & Whitney; Avitas and ATR.

The event is a joint venture between Airline Weekly Corp. (http://www.airlineweekly.com) and Everest Events (http://www.everestevents.co.uk).