Opening-day visitors to the inaugural Singapore Airshow will find a brand-new site fit for the newly revamped event. Even the land it sits on is new, reclaimed over the last 10 years from the waters of the Singapore Strait. And best of all, if things go according to plan, access should prove pretty much painless.
Jimmy Lau, managing director of Singapore Airshow and Events, said here yesterday that the canal that separates the car park from the new Changi Exhibition Centre (CEC) provides a natural security barrier. So there will be no need to screen exhibitors’ and visitors’ vehicles entering via the new six-lane highway. And the only hindrance to access should be the occasional display aircraft being towed to or from the adjacent Changi East Air Base, whose runway will launch several of the flying display performers, including the Airbus A380 that dominates the static display.
