Not just Helitech this year
Just a couple of weeks now and the first week of October Helitech International returns to ExCeL London for 3 days of meetings.
But it is not quite alone this year.
Just down the corridor is an event focused on commercial aviation maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO), Aviation Week Network's MRO Europe Conference and Exhibition, is heralded as the industry’s largest event in the region.
The dates coincided a few years ago to the favour of both events but exhibitors were then in both halls at the same time.
Among the exhibitors list are names with links to the helicopter market, names you might expect to find at Heli-Expo including BAE Systems, Boeing, BP, Diehl Aerosystems, Donaldson, Eaton, GKN, Honeywell …etc. Without going to the trouble of comparing the exhibitor lists side by side ... how many of those exhibitors might have been in the Helitech hall if the two events were not on at the same time and venue? MRO appears to offer more exhibitors and a larger event so there must be a danger that some of the exhibitors that support Helitech could be turned off attending.
At least having both events co-located might make the helicopter event more attendable....