Brent Pin­heiro 

brent.pin­heiro@guardian.co.tt 

The Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad & To­ba­go (AATT) is set to host Air­ports Coun­cil In­ter­na­tion­al – Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean’s (ACI-LAC) An­nu­al As­sem­bly Con­fer­ence and Ex­hi­bi­tion in No­vem­ber 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to a re­lease from the AATT, T&T was of­fi­cial­ly named as host at the con­clu­sion of the 2024 edi­tion of the event which took place in Guadala­jara, Mex­i­co from No­vem­ber 10-12th. The ACI-LAC An­nu­al As­sem­bly Con­fer­ence and Ex­hi­bi­tion is an avi­a­tion con­fer­ence that brings to­geth­er re­gion­al and in­ter­na­tion­al lead­ers to dis­cuss is­sues af­fect­ing air­ports. Trends in the ATC busi­ness, fi­nanc­ing the green tran­si­tion, and op­ti­mis­ing in­fra­struc­ture ca­pac­i­ty and the pas­sen­ger ex­pe­ri­ence were just some of the top­ics dis­cussed at this year’s con­fer­ence. 

AATT Gen­er­al Man­ag­er Hay­den New­ton was on hand to ac­cept the award and said “our se­lec­tion as host un­der­scores our na­tion’s im­por­tant role in the Latin Amer­i­can and Caribbean avi­a­tion net­work. We are be­ing recog­nised as lead­ers in avi­a­tion in the re­gion and emerg­ing as a pre­mier des­ti­na­tion for in­ter­na­tion­al avi­a­tion con­fer­ences” 

Flashback: Airline leaders participate in a panel discussion at CAPA’s Airline Leader Summit for Latin America and the Caribbean in August. Photo: Jayden Giles.

T&T is no stranger to host­ing in­ter­na­tion­al avi­a­tion con­fer­ences. In Oc­to­ber the In­ter­na­tion­al Fed­er­a­tion of Air Traf­fic Con­trollers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (IFAC­TA) held its 40th An­nu­al Re­gion­al Meet­ing at the Hy­att Re­gency Ho­tel in down­town Port of Spain. Ear­li­er this year the AATT host­ed the CA­PA Air­line Leader Sum­mit for Latin Amer­i­ca and the Caribbean, al­so at the Hy­att. Ac­cord­ing to the AATT, host­ing con­fer­ences such as these pro­vide sig­nif­i­cant ben­e­fits to the coun­try in­clud­ing in­creased con­sumer ex­pen­di­ture, vis­i­bil­i­ty and aware­ness of des­ti­na­tion T&T, and the po­ten­tial for in­creased routes through net­work­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties.