The US-India Aviation Cooperation Partnership Conference in Delhi

 

I just returned from coordinating the Air Traffic Flow Management Seminar for the Aviation Cooperation Partnership in Delhi.  I’m happy to say that the folks at USTDA, which sponsored the conference, were happy with the whole event.  

 

A good bit of credit for the smooth functioning of the event has to go to the fabulous people at the Oberoi New Delhi Hotel.   We had our challenges, but due to an all-nighter pulled by the IT guys, quick thinking by the catering crew and the diligent attention of the duty managers – nobody noticed!

 

The jet lag was also a lot easier to deal with because the Oberoi opened the gym early just for me.  There was never any temptation to sleep-in knowing that the kitchen had egg dosas on the griddle!  And the overnight print job of 100 conference books was no sweat after a little time in the sauna.

 

So the logistics never got in the way of the presenters which helped educate the Indian audience of government and industry on the policy issues, technical matters and air safety of having state-of-the-art air traffic flow management systems.