British-Irish Airports EXPO Partners 2020
British-Irish Airports EXPO Partners 2020
British-Irish Airports EXPO Partners 2020

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Archived item: 37-strong Regional and Business Airports Group (RABA) gears up for conference and AGM at British-Irish Airports EXPO


The Regional and Business Airports Group (RABA) is continuing its valuable alliance with the British-Irish Airports EXPO. It will once again hold the RABA AGM alongside the event but, this year, it will also stage an important conference on operational issues on the EXPO floor itself.



Neil Pakey, Chairman of RABA, addresses the British-Irish Airports EXPO conference in 2016 while CEO of Shannon Airport.

The Regional and Business Airports Group (RABA) is continuing its valuable alliance with the British-Irish Airports EXPO. It will once again hold the RABA AGM alongside the event but, this year, it will also stage an important conference on operational issues on the EXPO floor itself.

This free-to-attend conference will especially look at the problems and solutions to the disproportionally high cost of regulatory compliance for airports of less than 3 million passengers with case studies from airports, the regulators, and suppliers.

Besides the RABA conference, visitors will have multiple benefits including free access to a trade exhibition of 200 airport suppliers (150 in 2016), superb networking with British and Irish airports big and small (including an evening mid-summer party), while taking advantage of the superb air, rail and road access to the NEC, right next door to the event host, Birmingham Airport.

What does RABA do?

  • RABA is the voice of 37 UK airports with less than 3 million passengers, originally established to represent smaller airports to the Davies Airport Commission.
  • RABA expanded in 2014 to include Crown Dependency and business aviation airports – and now represent 75% of airports of this size.
  • RABA made sure regional connectivity was a key component of Airport Commission recommendations, ensuring Heathrow expansion will generate new domestic routes (Flybe alone has announced plans for 12 routes).
  • RABA is now also pursing new objectives, especially challenging the high costs associated with regulatory compliance which disproportionately impact smaller airports.
  • RABA is chaired by Neil Pakey: Formerly: CEO of Shannon Airport; CEO Peel Airports; CEO Liverpool John Lennon.

RABA’s 37 airports:

Three new airports joined in January:

Belfast City Airport

Southampton Airport

Pembrey Airport

All RABA Members:

Alderney Airport

Barra Airport

Benbecula Airport

Blackpool Airport

Campbeltown Airport

Cardiff Airport

Carlisle Airport

City of Derry Airport

Cornwall Newquay Airport

Coventry Airport

Dundee Airport

Durham Tees Valley Airport

Exeter Airport

Glasgow Prestwick Airport

Gloucestershire Airport Staverton

Guernsey Airport

Humberside Airport

Inverness Airport

Islay Airport

Isle of Man Airport

Jersey Airport

Kirkwall Airport

Land’s End Airport

London Biggin Hill Airport

London Oxford Airport

London Southend Airport

Norwich Airport

Robin Hood Doncaster Sheffield Airport

Stornoway Airport

Sumburgh Airport

Tiree Airport

Wick John O’Groats Airport

RABA commercial sponsors:

APCOA PARKING

Caterleisure Group

RPS

Safran Identity & Security

Vanderlande

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