The Innsbruck airport director, Marco Pernetta, was elected chairman of this member group in the European association ACI Europe during the conference of European regional airports. The first meeting of European regional airports after two years of the corona pandemic took place in Palermo at the beginning of this week. On the one hand, the meeting was under the impression of the consequences of the pandemic, which has hit aviation particularly hard in the past two years, but on the other hand, these consequences are put into perspective against the background of the current war in Ukraine. The more than 200 delegates experienced a very moving appearance by the director of Odessa airport, who reported on the dramatic developments and consequences of the war in Ukraine. Civil airports and their employees in particular have been one of the main targets of Russian attacks since the beginning of the war. Another important item on the agenda of the conference was the election of the new chairman, which this time fell to the managing director of Innsbruck Airport, Marco Pernetta. Pernetta will thus take over the chairmanship of the group with the largest number of members in the European airport association ACI Europe for the next two years and, together with his deputy Andrea Andorno, CEO of Turin Airport, will represent over 250 European regional airports. "It is a great honour for me to serve as chairman of ACI Europe, the interest group that is so important in the aviation industry," said Pernetta immediately after his election. "After the long Corona pandemic, we had hoped to be able to return to some normality in 2022, but unfortunately we are already in the middle of the next crisis," regrets Pernetta, referring, among other things, to the