Aviation India 2025 Gears Up in Delhi with Key Leaders, Strategic Partners, Shaping the Pathway for Growth
Aviation India & South Asia Summit & Exhibition 2025, organised by Times Aerospace Events (MESA), is set to return to New Delhi on 29-30 October 2025 at the JW Marriott, Aero City. Building on the success of the inaugural edition in 2024 that drew 582 delegates, this second summit is expected to attract over 800 delegates and around 70 exhibitors, bringing together the commercial air transport community and ecosystem under the theme “Shaping the pathway for Indian aviation.”
The event is being organised alongside the MRO Association of India, which has come on board as a strategic partner. Its President, C S Tomar, highlighted the significance of this association, noting, “The MRO sector in India is responding strongly to our country’s need for more home-grown engineering and technical services and promoting these efforts at Aviation India 2025 will play a vital role in this drive.”The Business Aircraft Operators Association (BAOA) of India is also returning as a supporting partner, to help address the issues faced by this growing segment of India’s aviation ecosystem.
This year’s summit will bring together key figures and executives from across India and South Asia. Confirmed speakers include:
Pieter Elbers, CEO of IndiGo, who will share the airline’s growth story and roadmap towards becoming a global carrier by 2030. Elbers remarked, “From long-haul debut into Europe to introducing premium offerings like IndiGoStretch and IndiGo BluChip, IndiGo is taking massive strides towards evolving into a global airline by 2030. We believe this is India’s time to take its rightful place on the global aviation stage. Events like this help showcase the growing Indian aviation to the world and demonstrate the sector’s significant role in the nation’s progress.”
Campbell Wilson, CEO of Air India, will be among the keynote speakers shaping discussions on how India’s airline sector is evolving.
Vipin Kumar, Chairman of the Airports Authority of India (AAI), will speak about expanding and enhancing India’s ground and air infrastructure, capacity, and capabilities. AAI recently marked its 30th anniversary, with Mr Kumar stating, “India’s civil aviation sector is experiencing rapid growth, becoming a significant engine for economic expansion, with increased passenger traffic, infrastructure development, establishing India as the third-largest domestic aviation market in the world and government initiatives driving this surge.” AAI remains central to delivering the country’s Vision 2047 roadmap, managing over 100 airports.
Salil Gupte, President of Boeing India and South Asia, will discuss how Boeing is working at scale in India across commercial and defence aerospace, MRO, training, manufacturing and IT. Boeing’s sourcing from India stands at $1.25 billion annually with a network of over 300 suppliers, employing 7,000 people directly and more than 13,000 through its supply chain.
The speaker line-up also features Videh Kumar Jaipuriar of Delhi International Airport, Hari Marar of Bangalore International Airport, along with a special panel formed by Times Aerospace Events to help shape the summit’s content. This panel includes Bharat Malkani (Max Aerospace and Aviation), Willy Boulter (senior airline consultant and former CCO of IndiGo), Sunam Datta (Skyplan) and veteran correspondent Neelam Mathews. Aviation India 2025 continues to build on the foundation laid by the long-running Times Aerospace Aviation Africa events, successfully hosted since 2015 in Dubai, Rwanda, Egypt, Nigeria, Ethiopia and South Africa, now focused on supporting the momentum in India and South Asia’s aviation landscape.
