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Angela Gittens, director general of Airports Council International (ACI), and Dominique Anglade, president and CEO of Montréal International, announced that ACI would expand its activities in Montréal to develop its Airport Excellence (APEX) program. The expansion will create nine permanent jobs and economic spin-offs of $1.7 million a year.
“Our relocation to Montréal in 2011 facilitated a closer alignment with the International Civil Aviation Organization and other aviation industry stakeholders based here in Montréal. We increased the quality and range of services to our members particularly with the APEX in Safety program, which was launched in September 2012. APEX has attracted a great deal of interest and we have entered into agreements with several international ACI member airports. The city has everything our organization needs to grow, so the decision to expand our facilities was a logical one,” said Gittens.
Passenger numbers and air traffic volume are increasing steadily. ACI’s recent forecasts indicate that there will be more than 12 billion passengers and over 135 million aircraft movements per year in 2031. “To better manage this growth we are looking at expanding the scope of APEX to cover other disciplines in airport management including service quality, operational security and environmental management. ACI has unique expertise in these areas and we will strive through our APEX expansion program to make Montréal a global centre of airport management excellence,” added Gittens.
“ACI’s global role is fundamental to the aviation industry and Aéroports de Montréal has played an important role in the worldwide rollout of the APEX program which has enabled a large number of airports to enhance the safety of operations,” explained Anglade. “We are therefore delighted with ACI’s success in Montréal and are honoured to have played a part. We believe in supporting our international organizations community, which is part of what makes Montréal such a unique multicultural and outward-looking city.”
Montréal is host to 62 international organizations, including 10 in the aerospace sector.
