Greetings from CASMA at the Intercontinental Playa Bonita Resort in Panama!! (bonus points to any of you readers that understand the Van Halen reference in this entry's title).
Yes - it looks like conference season has started for 2008 and FMV travels far and wide to keep our loyal readers up to date. This year CASMA has picked a great resort to host the conference - and FMV will highly recommend the Intercontinental. The conference has even arranged transportation to the hotel - which is about 45 minutes from the airport. The only problem is that Panama City itself does not seem very inviting to explore, and there is a general consensus that there is not much enthusaism for going into the city and seeing the sites (which doesn't seem much after you get past that big canal thing).
In terms of attendance - seems well attended in terms of numbers, but not as much in terms of companies and organziations. For instance - out of a total of about 200 people, COPA has 18 people attending (ok, that makes kinda sense since it's home turf for them), ARC has 19 (huh??), and each of the GDSs have 9-10 as well (which also makes sense because let's face it - CASMA is a bit of a GDS love-fest after all...).
Buzz words we predict to watch out for today during the gatherings:
1) Some reference to "4 carriers going under in the same week..."
2) Anciliary revenue (with multiple references to Ryan Air)
3) Price of oil
It's enevitable - airline people just can't help themselves. For those of you that can't be here, go ahead and "ease the seat back", we'll post updates as noteworthy things happen and time permits.
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