The ninth edition of the aerospace and defense biennial will take place from February 20 to 25, 2024, and tickets for the public to enter the Changi Cinput Exhibition on February 24 and 25 will go on sale from January 2.
There will be a charge of $34 for adults and $17 for youth ages 3-12 to attend what will be called Weekend@Airshow. There will also be an organization package priced at $240 that includes 4 tickets and a parking tag.
Organiser Experia Events said that in the new year more main points will be announced about what to expect during the two public days. More than 60,000 public visitors are expected this weekend.
The first four days of the airshow, billed as Asia’s most influential aviation event, are usually reserved for trade visitors, and the two days after that are usually ticketed events that are open to the public.
Attendees come with high-level government and military delegations, as well as senior executives from aerospace and defense corporations around the world.
For the 2020 edition, the organisers had to especially control the number of tickets sold to the public as a precautionary measure against the emergence of the Covid-19 virus.
More than 20,000 people attended the event that year, about a third of the 70,000 spectators in 2018.
In 2022, the air show was further reduced due to strict pandemic-related restrictions and public days were eliminated.
For professionals, the 2024 edition promises a full-scale comeback, with more than 1,000 corporations from more than 50 countries participating.
According to the list of exhibitors on the air show’s website, more than 390 had submitted for the occasion as of December 8.
They include the usual heavyweights such as aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing, as well as companies that had dropped out in 2022 due to pandemic restrictions, like Canadian business jet manufacturer Bombardier and American jet maker Gulfstream.
Experia Events said Panasonic Avionics, which makes and sells in-flight entertainment and communication devices, and California-based aerospace startup JetZero, which will showcase a futuristic aircraft to reduce fuel consumption in between, will also attend for the first time in 2024.
In 2022, the Singapore Airshow featured nearly six hundred companies from 39 countries.
In 2020, there were 930 corporations from forty-five countries. This came after 70 companies, or about 8 percent of all exhibitors, pulled out shortly due to coronavirus concerns.
For the 2024 air show, environmental sustainability is expected to be a major theme.
A forum on reducing carbon emissions in the aviation sector will be organized in collaboration with consulting firm McKinsey. Meanwhile, airshow attendees will be able to offset carbon emissions related to their business by purchasing carbon credits from Kiwi company CarbonClick.
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