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If you're near San Diego, or can get yourself there, I highly recommend you attend the Women in Aviation Conference that is being held on March 13-15th (and no, you don't have to be a woman). Nearly all airlines and many corporate flight operations attend this convention, and they bring recruiters and accept resumes. There are also numerous education sessions that can help you in your career. More information can be found on their website at www.wai.org.

Here's the list of companies who will be there:

Booth # Exhibitor Name
536 AAR Corp.
713 Abingdon Watches
228 Air Force Reserve
319 Air Line Pilots Association International
723 Air National Guard
522 Air Race Classic, Inc.
625 Air Serv International
709 Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp.
512 AIR, Inc.-Aviation Information Resources,Inc
222 Airline Ground Schools
224 AirNet Systems, Inc.
604 AirTran Airways
401 Alaska Airlines
112 Alpha Flying, Inc.
701 American Airlines
705 American Airlines Federal Credit Union
702 American Eagle
608 American Eurocopter
530 Ameriprise Financial Advisors
315 AOPA Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association
220 ASA (Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc.)
529 ASTAR Air Cargo
119 Atlantic Southeast Airlines
135 Author's Table
614 Aviall
118 AviaNation.com
721 Aviation Training Center
508 AWAM(Assoc. of Women in Aviation Maintenance)
618 Bombardier Aerospace & Bombardier Flexjet
217 CAE SimuFlite
120 California Wing Specialties
226 Cape Air / Nantucket Airlines
322 Cessna Aircraft Company
106 Chevron Global Aviation
124 Cirrus Design Corporation
133 Civil Aerospace Medical Institute
602 Colgan Air
111 Comair
734 Compass Airlines
518 Continental Airlines, Inc.
428 CSC DUATS
634 Daniel Webster College
720 David Clark Company Inc.
101 Delta Air Lines, Inc.
109 Delta Community Credit Union
107 Delta Connection Academy
505 DTC DUAT Service
719 Elliott Aviation, Inc.
329 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
327 Experimental Aircraft Association
430 ExpressJet Airlines
610 FAA - Aeronautical Charting
710 FAA - Air Traffic Organization
616 FAA - Surveillance & Broadcast Services
708 FAA - System Operations
607 FAA First FCU
205 Federal Aviation Administration
301 FedEx Express
328 FlightSafety International
108 FLTops.com
104 FLYING Magazine
335 Frontier Airlines
635 Gabrielle Becker Designs, LLC
209 Garmin International
129 Girls With Wings
535 Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
628 Gulfstream
235 Gulfstream Training Academy
420 Hamilton Sundstrand
504 Hawker Beechcraft Corporation
402 Horizon Air
334 International Women‘s Air & Space Museum
501 ISA+21
317 Jeppesen
722 Jet University
623 JetBlue Airways
600 JetDirect
131 Kansas State University at Salina Aviation
601 King Schools
424 LeTourneau University
725 Lockheed Martin
219 Mach 2 Management
728 Marine Corps Recruiting Command
718 Mesa Air Group
636 Mesaba Airlines
707 Midcoast Aviation
116 Middle Tennessee State University
609 Museum of Women Pilots
622 National Air Traffic Controllers Association
410 National Association of Flight Instructors
215 National Business Aviation Association
436 National Gay Pilots Assoc.
509 NetJets Aviation
735 Northwest Airlines
434 Omni Measurement Systems, Inc.
724 Pacific Southwest Instruments
704 Pan Am International Flight Academy
526 Pinnacle Airlines Inc.
605 Plane Mercantile
429 Port to Port Air Jewelry
414 Pratt & Whitney
534 Professional Aviation Maintenance Assoc(PAMA)
528 Professional Women Controllers, Inc.
712 PropCovers.com
321 San Juan College
521 Sikorsky Aircraft
304 Silent Auction
435 Skybus Airlines
117 SkyWest Airlines
507 Southern Illinois University Carbondale
214 Southwest Airlines
621 Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
714 Talon Systems
627 Tecnam Aircraft
624 Telex
314 The Boeing Company
514 The Ninety-Nines, Inc.
502 The University of Tennessee, Aerospace MBA
523 TIMCO Aviation Services, Inc.
711 Transportation Security Administration
612 U.S. Customs & Border Protection
615 U.S. Navy
431 UND Aerospace
211 United Airlines
613 University Aviation Association
700 University of Dubuque
404 UPS
629 US Airways
426 US Airways Exp - PSA Airlines, Inc.
620 US Coast Guard
800 US Navy Trailer
611 Utah State University Flight Program
527 Utah Valley State College Global Aviation
706 VedaloHD Performance Sunglasses
726 Virgin America
100 WAI Membership/Chapter Booth
204 WAI Merchandise
511 Wal-Mart Aviation
236 WASP World War II
531 Westminster College
500 Whirly-Girls
221 Wings Financial
716 WMU College of Aviation
215 Women in Corporate Aviation
325 Women Military Aviators

If you make it, stop by booth 118 and say hello.

Tim Kirkwood
AviaNation.com


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They are getting awfully proud of themselves... Have you seen the fees? $$$$ I certainly can't afford to go.
 
Speed said:
They are getting awfully proud of themselves... Have you seen the fees? $$$$ I certainly can't afford to go.
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:hairraise::hairraise::hairraise: Another aviation related rip off. In the maritime industry, all this stuff is free.
 
Speed said:
They are getting awfully proud of themselves... Have you seen the fees? $$$$ I certainly can't afford to go.
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Henning said:
:hairraise::hairraise::hairraise: Another aviation related rip off. In the maritime industry, all this stuff is free.
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Too many of these are expensive for both attendees and exhibitors. In the lab equipment industry, it's not uncommon to pay $8000 for a 10'x10' booth and $450 to attend the show. Add in travel, hotels, meals, cost of exhibit signs, and shipping a trade show gets expensive. The exhibit hall also charges for every thing- table, card scanner (needed to read the badges, and they are all slightly different), chairs, trash can, etc. You also must buy labor (provided by the helpful union) if your booth can't be assembled in a few minutes by one person.

To attend the American Chemical Society meeting, it's $400 for members. You don't wnat to know what we pay for a booth (albeit 20'x20'). The exposition (trade show part) is only $35 to get in, but an exhibitor can get you in for free.

All these trade shows (except maybe in the marine industry) are money makers for the various organizations.
 
Cap'n Jack said:
All these trade shows (except maybe in the marine industry) are money makers for the various organizations.
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I think the difference is that with most trade shows the exhibitors are trying to market their products to other companies. The attendees usually are people representing these companies and are able to afford the $300-400 price of admission. I have never been to one of these WAI events but I know that they are promoted more as job fairs. If I was at the start of my career, that would be a lot of money to pay to attend, not to mention getting there and the hotel expense. On the other hand, if you were able to get a job as a result it would be worth it. :dunno:
 
$300-$400 is a lot to pay to get into a job fair IMHO unless you walk away with a job.
 
I thought I wanted to go... But $430 for registration, plus airfare which when I looked a month ago was running $510 on the cheapest ticket I could find (must be spring break over there? I just bought a round trip instead to go visit family, $128), plus airport parking, plus the conference rate of $139/night for hotel, etc, sure adds up quick!
 
Yeah, trade shows do get expensive real quick for exhibitors. I'm not sure what the grand total wound up being for the one I just finished there, but I can tell you that just my hotel bill was nearly $1000.00. Now, there were 7 of us there, and when you factor in airfare and meals to that, plus some other expenses, you're talking almost $10,000.00 just in travel expenses. That doesn't include the cost of the booth space, the display, shipping the display, or all of the brochures and schwag that we handed out.

On the flip-side, for those who go, the San Diego Convention Center is literally around the corner from the USS Midway, an aircraft carrier that they turned into a museum. Those who are fans of the History Channel show Dogfights will remember it as being the aircraft carrier that all of the planes were based on in the episode with the F-4 Phantoms fighting Migs over North Vietnam. Sadly, I didn't have time to go, but it will be a must-do thing on a return trip.
 
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