The 2010 Singapore Airshow (Hall 2 Stand B9) has taken reservations for 80 percent of its available space just five months after this year’s inaugural event. Managing director Jimmy Lau is here at Farnborough aiming to sign firm contracts for 30 percent of that area and had already received 15 percent after Farnborough’s opening day. “We have to keep the momentum going,” Lau said yesterday.
The next event will be held earlier than usual, February 2 to 7, to avoid clashing with the Chinese lunar New Year. The move also removes the conflict between Singapore and the Heli-Expo show in the U.S., which in the past have overlapped by a day.
There will be no new buildings for 2010, Lau said, and there will be no temporary exhibition halls. “We decided to do away with building temporary halls as we always get complaints about the floor or the air conditioning being too loud, so we’re trying to squeeze as much as we can out of the main hall and trying to get people to contract for the space early,” said Lau.
