AVIATION WEEK Presents Three Events in Dallas This Month, Including Largest Global Aviation Maintenance Trade Show – MRO 2009

MRO Americas, MRO Military and Lean Six Sigma for Military take place April 21-23

NEW YORK, April 6 /PRNewswire/ — Top executives from all sectors of the aviation and defense (A&D) and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industries will convene during AVIATION WEEK‘s 14th annual MRO Americas Conference & Exhibition, MRO Military Conference & Exhibition, and Lean Six Sigma for Military Forum, which will be held on April 21-23, 2009, in the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Dallas, Texas.

These concurrent events will provide opportunities for more than 5,000 attendees to access the A&D industry’s best and brightest in the pursuit of an enhanced bottom-line through executive-level discussions and sold-out exhibition halls with more than 500 MRO and defense product and services suppliers.

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is projecting global airline losses of $4.7 billion for 2009, one of many indicators that the A&D industry must tackle critical issues immediately to survive. Detailed tracks will allow attendees to target specific needs in MRO trends, performance metrics and improvement, purchasing/supply chain, engine advances and interiors, and more. Overall sessions will deliver best practices and case studies from the leaders of MROs, the military, the FAA, and airlines, such as keynote speakers Richard Anderson, CEO, Delta Air Lines; August Wilhelm Henningsen, CEO, Lufthansa Technik; Bob Lekites, President, UPS Airlines; and David Storch, CEO, AAR Corp. (MRO Americas); and MRO Military and Lean Six Sigma speakers Colonel Steve Franklin, Aviation Logistics Branch Head, Headquarters US Marine Corps; Gen. Donald Hoffman, U.S. Air Force Materiel Command; John B. Johns, Asst. Dep. Undersecretary of Defense, Maintenance Policy & Programs; Corporal Martin Kennedy, Supervisor, Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 13; Chief Warrant Officer 3 Rob Willis, Enterprise AIRSpeed Project Officer, Naval Air Systems Command; and many more.

Additional information and online registration are available at http://aviationweek.com/events/ or by calling +1-212-904-4682. Special rates apply for MRO providers, airlines, government, military, media, and groups of three or more. Attendees are encouraged to sign up for MRO Connect for full conference information (agenda, exhibitors, speakers, announcements, and polls), a meeting scheduler, and networking with other attendees, speakers and exhibitors. Demos of MRO Prospector, AVIATION WEEK’s intelligence tool for MRO providers, airlines, suppliers and OEMs, will also be available to attendees at the event.

MRO Americas and MRO Military are produced by AVIATION WEEK and Overhaul & Maintenance. MRO Americas is produced in association with the Air Transport Association and Team SAI. Gold sponsors include Aveos, Delta TechOps, Goodrich, Pratt & Whitney, Plane Techs and United Services. Silver sponsors are American Airlines MRO, Aerotech Holdings, Aviation Technical Services, Avio-Diepen, Bombardier Customer Services, Chromalloy, CSC, Heico Aerospace, Spirit Aerosystems, Stork Fokker, and Triumph Group, Inc. Bronze sponsors are Aeroframe, Airbus, Aerospace Products International, Aeroxchange, Avmat, Avion Global, Barfield, Field International, General Electric, IAI, Oracle, SR Technics, TIMCO Aviation Services, TRAX, Volvo Aero, and Woodward. MRO Americas is also supported by several airlines: AirTran, American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta, UPS, and US Airways, and by the Association of European Airlines. MRO Military is sponsored by gold sponsor Lockheed Martin, silver sponsor Deloitte, and media sponsor Defense Technology International. Lean Six Sigma for Military is produced by AVIATION WEEK and supported by LAI MIT. AGI Goldratt Institute is the lunch sponsor, and Aviation Week & Space Technology is the media sponsor.

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