Minutesof
General Assembly of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS)
Held on 26th June, 2016 atRodos Palace Hotel, Greece
Pursuant to the Statutes of the Air Transport Research Society, the President of ATRS called for the third General Assembly at theRodos Palace Hotel from 12:00 to 13:25.
In total, 91 members participated.
Agenda 1. Approval of minutes of last General Assembly, Singapore, July 5, 2015
Secretary Koki Nagata presented the minutes of the 2015 General Assembly.
After a motion to approve the minutes, and the seconding of the motion, the minutes were unanimously approved.
Agenda 2. Report of Annual Activities
President, Martin Dresner, chairing the Assembly, first thanked and congratulated Rhodes Conference Chair Dr. Iatrou and the Organizing Committee headed by Captain Stavlasfor a great success.
His report included Airport Benchmarking activities and the ATRS contribution to the ICAO-International Air Transport Symposium in the 2015/2016 activities.
Agenda 3. Election of VP Publications
To replace the resignaton ofDr. Paul Hooper from this position, Dr. Tae Oum nominated Dr. Gianmaria Martini as VP Publications. There were no other nominations. Dr.Chunyan Yu proposed a motion and Dr. Kostas Iatrou seconded. As there was no opposition from the floor, the General Assembly unanimously approved the appointment of Gianmaria Martini to VP Publications.
Agenda 4. Report of the Treasurer
Treasurer, AndreasWittmer, presented financial reports for 2015/2016 and the budget for the 2016/2017 fiscal year.
The budget and financial reports wereapproved unanimously. In addition, the GA voted to keep dues at the same level as the previous year.
Agenda 5. Report on Activities of the Rhodes Conference
First, representing the hosting committee, Captain IoannisStavlas of Rhodes CAA expressed his appreciation to all participants of the 20th ATRS 2016 RhodesWorld Conference. He announced 247 members, spouses and guests participated and 167 papers were presented during the conference.
Agenda 6. Report on Special Issues
VP Publications,Gianmaria Martini, expressed the hope that special issues from this conferencebe completed before the next ATRS World Conference. This goal will help determine the deadline dates for paper submissions and reviews.
Agenda 7. Election of ATRS Fellows
VP External,SveinnGudmundsson, proposed nominations of Prof. Ann Grahamto ATRS Fellow and Mr. Mario Diazfor ATRS Professional Fellow, and also renaming Prof. Yoshitsugu Hayashi and Mr. William Swan (formerly ATRS Distinguished Fellows) as ATRS Fellow and ATRS Professional Fellow, respectively, to be consistent with the new ATRS Fellows the Committee has adopted.
The nominations of the four fellows were unanimously approved.
Agenda 8. Appreciation to the Conference Organizing Committee and Workers
President, Martin Dresner, representing the ATRS, expressed appreciation to theRhodes Conference Organization Committee members headed by Dr. Kostas Iatrou and Captain IoannisStavlas.
At this time, he announced that ATRS 2018 site will be in Korea.
Agenda 9. Welcome to the 21th World Conference in Antwerp, Belgium
VP External, SveinnGudmundsson,invited the 2017 ATRS World Conference Organizing Committee for their briefing of the conference site, conference logistics,and facilities with an audio-visual video. The announced conference dates are from July 4 to July 8, 2017. The 2017 ATRS Conference website was announced as being up and running.
Agenda 10. Other Business
Since no other issues were raised, the Assembly was adjourned at 13:25.
(Agenda 7 ATRS Fellows revised by Tae’s input)