Mike Martin
Dubai will be celebrating the tenth edition of its air show this year – and the event will be the biggest to date and the last at the present Airport Expo venue.
From 2009, Dubai air show will move to Dubai Exhibition World, located at the new Dubai World Central (DBX) airport at Jebel Ali. DBX will be the biggest airport (by land area) in the world when finished and the new exhibition facility will also be the world’s biggest. No surprises there, then!
“We are experiencing tremendous growth in demand for floor space and the constraints of Airport Expo has led to some creative solutions – including an increase in the number of outdoor pavilions both on the static park and at the edge of the stair wells for East and West Halls. Aisle width has also been reduced,” says Alison Weller, aerospace director, Fairs & Exhibitions (F&E), which organises the Dubai event.

New-to-market
Dubai 2007 has some 40 new-to-market exhibitors in this year’s profile and five companies are planning specific pavilions. These are Dubai Aerospace, Dubai World Central, Action Aviation, Eurofighter and Italy’s International Aviation Supplies.
To date, around 90% of floor space for Dubai 2007 has been sold or reserved to companies from 36 countries – including first-time representation from the Cayman Islands. All of the onsite chalets have been reserved with F&E now allocating applicants to a waiting list.
“National pavilion commitments are expected to follow this month’s Paris air show which will see us firmly on the path to a ‘sold-out’ scenario,” says Weller. Dubai air show is making its last sales push at here at Paris where it has a presence in Hall 3.
Dubai 2007 will also feature two industry-specific pavilions – an unmanned aerial vehicles pavilion organised by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International and a training and simulation pavilion.

Dubai celebrates with commemorative book
Exhibitors at the Dubai air show as well as VIPs throughout the aerospace industry will have a special keepsake from the 10th Dubai show.
HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al Maktoum, head of Dubai Civil Aviation authority and the chairman of Emirates as well as show organisers Fairs & Exhibitions have given the go-ahead for a special commemorative coffee table book to be produced for the show. F&E will be giving a complementary copy to all exhibitors and Dubai’s DCA will be sending the book to contacts and officials throughout the region.
The book is being published by The Times Group of the UK and is written by leading aviation journalists and edited by Flight Daily News editor Alan Peaford.
Mark Brown, managing director of the Times Group, says: “The book is about more than the show. It looks at the importance of the show to the growth of aerospace business in the middle east region but also the history and the depth of the whole industry. 

 

Source: Flight Daily News

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