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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Singapore Airshow reports
Jialat.com went to the Singapore Airshow and regretted it because of the congestion and crowds. See the report and photos at jialat.com.
Excerpt:
"I managed to get on the bus at about 1140am. And I did not know that, the nightmare just started…
The traffic jam started maybe 2 or 3 km from the location. The closer we get, the heavier the jam. It was the worst after the bus made the turn into the straight road leading to the venue. We saw many people taking cabs getting off their cabs and walked, and they were faster! But we couldn’t! The bus crawled and crawled and crawled to the designated dropping point. By the time it was already 1230pm. The Black Knights already flying! So, not wanting to waste time going into the venue, we all stood beside the big big longkang to watch. We got to queue again just to go into the place where the ticket house and security gantry are, and later queued to get through the security check. And I realized that, no one checked my ticket! No one! I saw a few staffs checking some other queues, but there were just none doing so for the other queues! Then what the hell I bought the ticket for if I can get in FREE?"
Weikiat even drew a detailed aerial view of the queue he went through just to get on the bus to the show. Read his report and see his photos at weikiat.net.
Excerpt:
"The news said that the huge jam and queue was due to insufficient bus. This is highly laughable. They can easily determine the kind of crowd that is going to turn up before 12.30 for the Air Performance through their outrageous ticket sales (which I highly suspect they sold as many as they want without regards to their catering capacity).
The 2 and a half hour queue that I endured was still OK, if not the fact that there were NO CROWD CONTROL IN PLACE until at least about 2hours in the queue when I see some uniformed police personnel appear and tried to maintain some order. Cutting of queues, something which Singaporeans were remarkably good at, were at its full display at White Sands today. I even shouted at a rude Indian Family to not cut the queue infront of me, and they did not even turn around."
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luckily i go today. and went there early. they had a better management (i think) than on saturday, more railings and more staff and more police. most importantly more buses.
think the sg airshow organisers are first timers and didn't anticipate the crowd. but being sporeans, they react quite fast and today's crowd control was much better.
just becoz one organiser screws up doesn't mean YOG will be screwed. we'll probably see the army involved and look at our NDPs...
summary - noobs sure make mistakes - and don't go on the first day. get trade tickets if u're KS.
Posted by: jim | Feb 24, 2008 8:32:50 PM
wtf these people have been living under a rock or what? of course airshow is crowded lah. dumbfucks. Singaporeans LOVE to complain. it was a great show. yes it was crowded but that happens every year. I've been to 2 before.
Posted by: laughing | Feb 24, 2008 10:18:44 PM
How can they NOT anticipate the crowd from the ticket sales???
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Posted by: Deceased | Feb 24, 2008 10:31:14 PM
I visited on Sundday with my family. This is my fist and last visit. My son likes Aeroplanes that is why we went. But it is waste nothing. Wasting of time. Wasting of money. Stand under sun......waste ..... nothing to see and the price of the ticket is to high. Car park is $50.00..........ohhhhh waste waste .............
Posted by: Visitor | Feb 24, 2008 10:58:18 PM
Why do people go in the first place?
Posted by: startears | Feb 24, 2008 11:55:15 PM
That's Singaporean, spend your hard earned cash to get the suffering
Posted by: DJ Standy | Feb 25, 2008 11:00:35 AM
Organizers - Probably had a prefect plan on how things should work.
Just like our Singapore.. Only Good On Paper.
How Our Media handles such stuff.
"Only hear the good stuff" Gold 90.5Fm
Priceless...
Come elections, forgetting to submit your papers or even having a flu might be Front page news for days....
That's Singapore's Media for you. I Sure Love our Media. Everyday is a propaganda. ehmm... I Mean... Everyday Is Singapore Day !
Posted by: xd | Feb 25, 2008 2:21:18 PM
ORGANISED BY CRABS
Posted by: jose | Feb 25, 2008 5:48:27 PM
Are we really biting of more than we can chew?
i couldnt help but feel cheated that its another show with all the hype & nothing but another money making scheme for the organisers. Black knights?? Call in the Thunderbirds & the Blue Angels lah....
Posted by: Jason | Feb 25, 2008 8:46:41 PM
I really see no reason why we should go... unless you are planning to buy a plane, why bother. Any race queens ??
Posted by: Lincoln | Feb 25, 2008 10:44:12 PM
Considering i 'participated' in Asian Aero actively..
Singapore Air.. er..
From de events pt of view (nasty ones) >
Party for 500..
Client pay X amount per head..
But hey, lets cater 400 from the caterer..*
*I dun think all will turn up.. we can increase our profit margin.. Anyway if client complain, we can argue his guests are big eaters..
(Who ask you all to come at the same time to see the one slot prog)
Posted by: Hendrick | Feb 26, 2008 12:09:23 AM
Reminded me of the "madness" at Sentosa during CNY...
Posted by: Singapore Resident | Feb 26, 2008 8:44:44 AM
As some of the comments had mentioned...why do people want to go to air show in the first place?
Don't go then won't suffer liao mah
Posted by: yamizi | Feb 26, 2008 1:16:57 PM
lucky i nv even go sia. lol
Posted by: keith | Feb 26, 2008 9:57:48 PM
Noticed the chaos of the airshow on public days is given very little attention in the public media, with only a brief mention of it and there were only 'some complaints'. Only way to know what really happened, is to google for it in the various personal blogs.
Organisers did pretty well in organising the exhibition EXCEPT for the crowd control for public days. It was a disaster waiting to happen... there are bottlenecks everywhere, from the pickup points at Pasir Ris MRT, the single lane road at Changi Coast Road, to pre-registration at the site (10 metal-detector screeners i believe), to the narrow bus bay for departure (without any barriers or visible signage)... all were never designed to handle the 40000 to 50000 load expected for the single aerial display starting at 12.15pm
I'm no expert in crowd control, but for the organisers to expect the mass public of more than 30000 to take the bus from one point (Pasir Ris) to catch the single air display, and again depart from one bus bay jammed together with other travellers taking other paid bus ride to hotels and Expo is asking for trouble. I personally won't worry about Youth Olympics or F1, cos the crowd would most likely be able to disperse in several directions, unlike the Changi Exhibition Site, which is so far in from Changi Coast Road, that you have no choice but to be jammed with everybody else.
Posted by: Simon | Feb 27, 2008 10:07:03 AM
Alamak, the air show targets mainly big-time business people to make multi-million dollars deal there. Small ikan bilis like us, they don't care one lah. This is not the first time that air show has been organized in Singapore and you think they don't know what crowd to be expected? They just simply boh chap.
Posted by: Ex-NS man | Feb 27, 2008 2:37:38 PM
I agree, those who want to see the Black Knights need not buy tickets, stand along Changi Beach also can see. For the military static display, the one i attended at AirForce Open house is better. Public spectators are the lowest in their food chain, so you think they bother to look hard enough in their crowd control? Whoever in their Org Committee suggest they spend more resource in the crowd control must be label as low CEP in their staff assessment. In fact, all foreign exhibitors took off during the Sat and Sun to enjoy their weekend in Orchard Rd or fly home already.
Posted by: Wesley | Mar 2, 2008 1:08:10 PM
