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Asian Business Aviation Gets Its Own Trade Show Again
First of the new BAAFEx events will be staged in Singapore from March 4 to 6
Singapore Airshow
The first BAAFEx event will be staged in Singapore by Experia Events, the organizer of the biennial Singapore Airshow (shown here). © Mark Wagner/AIN

Singapore’s Changi Exhibition Centre is set to stage the Asia-Pacific region’s first dedicated business aviation trade show since April 2019, when the most recent edition of NBAA’s Asian Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition was held in Shanghai. The new Business Aviation Asia Forum & Expo (BAAFEx) will run from March 4 to 6 against a backdrop of strong market growth that has been sustained in many countries since the end of the Covid pandemic.

According to management consultancy Alton Aviation, there has been a strong uptick in business jet departures across the region. “[Traffic] is almost double what it was in 2019, and the region has seen the second highest growth rate after Latin America, far exceeding [that of] North America and Europe over the past five years,” managing director Adam Cowburn told AIN.