Willie Walsh is to make his first public speech as the new ceo of British Airways at the Association of Corporate Travel Executives' (ACTE) London conference.
Mr Walsh will give the keynote address on Monday (October 24) at the conference Beyond Barriers – Creating Solutions at the Hilton Metropole Hotel.
About 900 industry executives have registered for the event which its organisers say they plan to make more interactive with members.
Featured topics include passenger security, and data privacy issues and the role of the EC in shaping the future of the industry. Break-out sessions will focus on self booking tools, the challenges of implementing global travel management and performance measures.
Speakers include Ann Barrett, managing director of the US Bureau of Consular Affairs and Passport Services, Trevor Soames, an expert on traveller identification technology, and Gus Hossein, an expert on privacy issues.
Delta plans European expansion
Delta Air Lines, currently in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has announced major plans to switch capacity from America to Europe and Latin America.
Loren Neuenschwander, managing director of the carrier's Atlantic Region, said it would cut capacity by 15-20% on US domestic routes and switch many of its wide-body Boeing 767-300s and 400s to the European and Latin American market for next summer.
New routes in Europe include Athens, Nice, Venice, Tel Aviv, Dusseldorf, Copenhagen and Edinburgh to Atlanta, the airline's biggest US base and Budapest, Manchester, Dublin/Shannon and Kiev to New York JFK.
The new routes will be introduced from March next year.
Mr Neuenschwander said the expanded services would make Delta the world's largest transatlantic airline with about 50 flights a day.
Planes will be re-configured to provide travellers with Delta's BusinessElite service.
Mr Neuenschwander said the timescale for the airline to be in Chapter 11 was between 18-24months.
He said it had been knocked off course in its aim of $5bn cuts in costs by the sharp rise in fuel prices. The airline was now looking for a further $3bn cuts which could means the loss of up to 9,000 jobs.