UAE Business: Airport Show opens with 180 exhibitors in Dubai – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: Airport Show opens with 180 exhibitors in Dubai – Gulf Digital News

The 21st edition of Airport Show opened in Dubai today (May 17) with participation from more than 150 international companies from 20 countries amid indications that the aviation industry is experiencing a huge surge to return to pre-pandemic levels.

Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of the Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman of Dubai Airports, and Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline and Group, inaugurated this morning the annual Airport Show, the world’s largest annual airport event, at the Dubai World Trade Centre, which will run until May 19.

Sheikh Ahmed toured the exhibitors’ pavilions, during which he was accompanied by a number of senior officials from the aviation sector from inside and outside the country, where he was briefed on the technologies and devices offered by exhibitors.

Commenting on the Airport Show, he stressed the importance of the exhibition at this particular time to give an additional boost to the global aviation sector, whose rapid return to the pre-pandemic stage began to appear with the high demand for travel and the announcement of the restart of development projects at the level of the world’s airports in anticipation of the next level of growth.

“The exhibition and conferences held on its sidelines,