Conference on the Economics of Airports and Air Navigation Services (CEANS)

Conference on the Economics of Airports and Air Navigation Services (CEANS), which ICAO is convening in Montréal from 15 to 20 September 2008. CEANS will be preceded by a pre-Conference Symposium on Sunday, 14 September 2008. While the outcome of the latest conference in this area (ANSConf 2000), held in Montréal in June 2000, led to an adjustment of ICAOs policies on charges to a commercialized and privatized environment, the main purpose with CEANS is to learn from the experiences of the commercialization and privatization process and further develop and refine the policies. In particular, CEANS is expected to enhance and strengthen cooperation between providers and users, through more developed policies on consultation with users.