World Routes Awards 2012 Winners Announced

Abu Dhabi, Uae (ots/PRNewswire) -

Routes and OAG are pleased to announce Brussels Airport as overall
winner for 2012

Brussels Airport triumped as overall winner of the World Routes
Awards 2012 which were formally announced last night at the Abu Dhabi
Networking Evening which took place at the Yas Marina Circuit, home
of the F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix racing circuit.

"This is a wonderful recognition of the achievement of our
aviation marketing team over the past year. To be recognised for our
hard efforts by this industry's peers is even more rewarding," said
Arnaud Feist, Chief Executive Officer, Brussels Airport.

Having won the European heat of the Airport Marketing Awards and
now the Europe and overall award, Leon Verhallen, Head of Aviation
Marketing, Brussels Airport was in positive spirits after the awards
ceremony. "We have reached the top following our win tonight," he
said. "I don't think we can go any higher then achieving this
reward."

The awards, which are voted exclusively by airlines, included five
regional categories: Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and CIS. This
year, for the first time, the awards included a special award for
Airports Under Four Million Passengers and presentations of a Tourism
Award for best destination marketing campaign by a tourism authority
and the ORBIS Award for Social Responsibility also took place.

Brussels were also named as the winner from the European region,
with Dallas Fort/Worth International Airport honoured from the
Americas region. From the Africa region Jomo Kenyatta International
Airport, Nairobi were ranked top with Ekaterinburg Koltsovo
International Airport winning the CIS category whilst the Asia Region
saw top honours going to Singapore Changi.

Darwin International Airport were awarded as the winner of the
newest award category for Airports Under Four Million Passengers and
Seychelles Tourism Board were awarded best destination marketing
campaign by a Tourism Authority.

The World Routes Awards have grown and developed over the last 15
years and are unique within the industry because they are voted for
exclusively by the airline network planning community. The prestige
of these industry awards, which recognise excellence in air service
development by airports, is largely due to this method of voting.

David Stroud, Executive Vice President of Routes said "We would
like congratulate this year's winners and highly commended airports,
year on year we are impressed by the calibre of the submissions that
are supplied to us. Proving the importance of airline-airport
relationship. We would also like to thank our judges who are all
senior members of the airline network planning community and of
course to our sponsor OAG for their continued support."

In addition to the shortlisted finalists nominated by the
airlines, the regional winners from each of the regional Routes
events from 2012 automatically gained a place in the final judging.

A respected panel of industry executives then reviewed the lists
and submissions from the nominated airports in order to determine the
winners. The panel consisted of the following experts:

Mr John Kirby, Senior Director, International for Southwest
Airlines

Mr Rick Wagstaffe, Vice President Procurement & Logistics for
Emirates

Mr Alan McIntyre, Head of Network and Schedule Development for
easyJet

Mr Imed Ben Abdallah, Head of Network Planning for Etihad Airways

Ms Sabine Reim, Network Development Manager for British Airways

Mr Germal Singh Khera, Senior Vice President International Affairs
for Malaysia Airlines

Mr Mauricio Emboaba Moreira, Senior Strategic Advisor for Gol
Transportes Aereos

Mr John Grant, Executive Vice President of OAG

"This is the first year I have participated in the judging process
for the World Routes Awards. I was impressed by the quality of the
submissions and enjoyed the seeing the diversity of the approach from
airports across the world" Rick Wagstaffe, Vice President Procurement
& Logistics, Emirates

Additionally KLM/Air France was named as the winner of the ORBIS
Award for Social Responsibility.

The full list of companies shortlisted under each award category
were as follows:

Africa (All Airports)

- Jomo Kenyatta International Airport - Winner -
Accra International Airport, Ghana - Highly Commended -
Entebbe International Airport - Julius Nyerere International
Airport - Mombassa International Airport, Kenya

Americas (Over 4 Million Passengers)

- Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport - Winner -
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport - Highly Commended -
Chicago O'Hare International Airport - Houston Airports
- Portland International Airport, Oregon - Southwest Florida
International Airport

Asia (Over 4 Million Passengers)

- Singapore Changi Airport Group - Winner - Incheon
International Airport - Highly Commended - Melbourne Airport
- Highly Commended - Sydney Airport - Highly Commended
- Bangalore International Airport - Beijing Capital
International Airport Co. Ltd. - Delhi International Airport
Pvt Ltd (DEL) - Mumbai International Airport Pvt. Ltd.

CIS (All Airports)

- Ekaterinburg Koltsovo Airport - Winner
        - Sheremetyevo International Airport, Moscow - Highly 
Commended
        - Novosibirsk International Airport Tolmachevo
        - Saint Petersburg International Pulkovo Airport

Europe (Over 4 Million Passengers)

- Brussels Airport - Winner - Budapest Airport -
Highly Commended - Hamburg Airport - Highly Commended
- Amsterdam Schiphol Airport - Athens International Airport
- Birmingham Airport Ltd - Munich Airport - Rome
Fiumicino Airport

Airports under 4 Million Passengers (excluding Africa & CIS)

- Darwin International Airport - Winner
        - Queen Beatrix International Airport, Aruba - Highly 
Commended
        - Friedrichshafen Airport - Highly Commended
        - London City Airport
        - Princess Juliana International Airport, St. Maarten

Best Destination Marketing Campaign by a Tourism Authority

- Seychelles Tourism Board - Winner - Aruba Tourism
Authority - Czech Tourism - Greek National Tourism
Organisation - Department of Tourism, Philippines

Orbis Social Responsibility Award

- KLM/Air France

Overall Winner

- Brussels Airport

Notes to Editors

About Routes

- Routes organises world-renowned airline and airport 
networking events
          through its regional and global Route Development Forums. 
Each year, there is one
          global event and one regional event in Asia, Africa, 
Europe, the Americas and CIS
          respectively. http://www.routesonline.com

- Routes was founded in 1995 as part of the Manchester 
UK?based ASM Ltd.,
          a consultancy specialising in the field of route 
development for airports.
          http://www.asm-global.com

- Routes and ASM were acquired by UBM Aviation Worldwide Ltd 
in August 2010.
          From 1st August 2012 Routes, ASM and the Airport Cities 
Conference and Exhibition
          become part of the UBM Live division of UBM plc.

- UBM Live connects people and creates opportunities for 
companies across
          five continents to develop new business, meet customers, 
launch new products, promote
          their brands and expand their markets. Through premiere 
brands such as MD&M, CPhI,
          IFSEC, TFM&A, Cruise Shipping Miami, the Concrete Show, the
Routes portfolio of
          events, Airport Cities and many others, UBM Live 
exhibitions, conferences, awards
          programs, publications, websites and training and 
certification programs are an
          integral part of the marketing plans of companies across 
more than 20 industry
          sectors. http://www.ubmlive.com

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