ABACE Quickly Becomes Preeminent Asian Bizav Show
Shanghai show has attracted a record-breaking 187 exhibitors and 38 static-display aircraft.
Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA) chairman Kevin Wu and NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen celebrate another successful ABACE in Shanghai. There are a record 387 exhibitors and 38 static-display aircraft at the Asian business aviation show, and the co-organizers NBAA and AsBAA expect attendance to exceed the 7,714 visitors at last year’s show by the time the event closes tomorrow afternoon. (Photo: David McIntosh/AIN)
Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA) chairman Kevin Wu and NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen celebrate another successful ABACE in Shanghai. There are a record 387 exhibitors and 38 static-display aircraft at the Asian business aviation show, and the co-organizers NBAA and AsBAA expect attendance to exceed the 7,714 visitors at last year’s show by the time the event closes tomorrow afternoon. (Photo: David McIntosh/AIN)

“There has been an enormous amount of energy and enthusiasm here in Shanghai at ABACE, despite the change in weather from sunny skies on the opening day [yesterday] to rain today,” NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen told AIN as he summed up the show so far. According to NBAA and show co-organizer Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA), ABACE 2014 has already attracted a record-breaking 187 exhibitors and 38 static-display aircraft. And Bolen expects the number of attendees this year to top the 7,714 people who came through the doors during ABACE 2013.