Turkey Confirms to Attend the 3rd D-8 DGCA Meeting in Bali, June 17-18

Istanbul, Turkey | June 14, 2008 by D-8 Secretariat

Mr. Candan KARLITEKIN, President of the Executive Board of Turkish Airlines will attend the 3rd D-8 DGCA Meeting in Bali, June 17-18. Beside all DGCAs of D-8 will attend the meeting, Turkish delegates are accompanied by some companies such as Turkish Airlines, MNG, and TAV.

TAV has been renown within the D-8 countries as an active company that supports construction of airports. Last year, Egypt inked the agreement to construct and expand Alexandria Borg Al-Arab Airport, and Cairo International Airport by cooperating with the Turkish TAV. Cairo International Airport is now carrying out its biggest-ever expansion project, constructing a new terminal which will take the airport’s capacity from nine million passengers per annum to 20 million passengers. The $280 million project is financed by the World Bank and construction is being carried out by Turkish TAV Construction.

Meanwhile other companies that already confirmed to attend the meeting are Air Asia, Garuda Indonesia Airlines, and aircraft industries such as PT Dirgantara Indonesia, airport companies Angkasa Pura I and II. Iran delegates also confirmed its attendance accompanied by Iran Air and other companies.

The meeting of D-8 DGCA was first recommended by D-8 Foreign Ministers Meeting in New York last September 2006, and followed up by the visit of D-8 Secretary General to Turkish DGCA on April 4th  2007, to discuss the possibility of Turkey to be the hosting country for the 1st Meeting. In Antalya , June 27-30 2007, the meeting of D-8 DGCA discussed some issues successfully on Civil Aviation cooperation among D-8 member states. Some activities and experiences of  D-8 DGCAs were presented and shared, as well as idea on the cooperation in Flight Safety and Security; Environment, Quality and Training.

Commeting about the upcoming DGCA meeting, D-8 Secretary General, Dipo Alam, encourages the civil aviation authorities of the memberstates to develop detailed program and plan to boost the involvement of private sectors in the airlines, and airport construction business. He brought to mind the model of cooperation betewen Malaysia’s AirAsia, that worked with the Islamic Development Bank, Gulf-linked Crescent Venture Partners and Deucalion Capital, a Frankfurt-based global private equity fund to help finance the purchase and lease of 11 Boeing 737-300 aircraft.

“These are potentials sectors to work on, considering that we have a very huge potentials in terms of our population that use aviation service for massive purposes, such as for umrah, and hajj” he said in his office yesterday. He also underlined the growing importances of air-cargo for export/import, and the migrant workers who are frequently using the service of civil aviation. “To support all of these, of course we should also develop programs of passenger safety, pilot and staffs trainings, especially for aircraft and airport maintanance,” he added.

Secretary General firmly believes that D-8 WG on Civil Aviation is one of D-8 dynamic working groups, and he is also glad after having a meeting with Turkish Minister of Transportation Mr Binali Yildırım, that Turkish minister fully supports D-8 cooperation in civil aviation and assigned Turkish DGCA, Dr Ali Ariduru, to lead the Working Group.

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