Invite: Expert Access: Barclays: Deep dive into the Kafka-esque world of airline ownership and control

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Invite: Expert Access: Barclays: Deep dive into the Kafka-esque world of airline ownership and control

are highly topical as the European industry evolves, with several live M&A situations and

Ryanair's EU ownership shaping the relationship between its ADR and ordinary share.

Meet the Speakers

Dr Barry Humphreys, Aviation Consultant, Former Director of External Affairs Virgin

Atlantic and Head of Air Services Policy at the UK CAA. Aviation Consultant, Former

Director of External Affairs Virgin Atlantic and Head of Air Services Policy at the UK CAA. An

economist by training, with a PhD in Air Transport Economics from the Univ. of Leeds,

Barry has some 50 years experience in the aviation industry, much of it at senior levels. His

early career was mostly spent with the UK Civil Aviation Authority, where he became Head

of Air Services Policy, a Member of the Senior Management Group. In 1995, he was

appointed Director of External Affairs and Route Development at Virgin Atlantic Airways

with a wide range of responsibilities, where he remained until his retirement in 2009.

Subsequently he served two terms (six years) as Chairman of the British Air Transport

Association (now Airlines UK), the trade body for UK airlines, and was for several years a

Non-Executive Board Member of NATS. Barry is now an aviation consultant. In 2023 his

book, 'The Regulation of Air Transport. From Protectionism to Liberalisation, and Back

Again', was published by Routledge.

Meet the Analysts

Andrew Lobbenberg is head of the Barclays European

Transport equity research team following aviation stocks.

He joined Barclays in 2023 and has been an equity

research analyst since 2000, most recently at HSBC,

achieving consistent high rankings in the II and Extel

transport surveys.