Just back from the 'airshow'. What a load of rubbish that was, with all due respect to the skills and daring of the aircraft crews who did show up. Maybe I don't understand the costs of the flying displays, but really the flying programme was so meagre and so interspersed with long gaps that it ranks (for me) as the worst large airshow I've ever witnessed. Yes, the weather was a bit uncharitable for the first hour (Red Arrows flyby cancelled), but there were no fast jets or any jets, apart from the A350 who made mockery of the laws of flight so graceful was it's display. All other participants were either rotary or propeller driven. Almost forgot, as it was rather anti-climactic, there was a flypast of (I think) Korean fast jets at the end.
Truly, the organisers should just have the 54 days for the trade and be done with it.