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Across the weekend, huge crowds turned up to enjoy a whole range of shows on the ground as well as in the air.<\/p>\nSWANSEA\u2019S Wales Airshow has had another brilliant year with hundreds of thousands of people descending on the city to enjoy the country\u2019s biggest free show.<\/p>\n
Two days of flying featuring The Red Arrows, the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight and fighter planes from World War I proved irresistible to visitors from all over the UK.<\/p>\n
Across the weekend, huge crowds turned up to enjoy a whole range of shows on the ground as well as in the air.<\/p>\n
Robert Francis-Davies, Cabinet Member for Innovation, Regeneration and Tourism, said: \u201cIt was yet another fantastic weekend for Swansea.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Airshow contributes more than \u00a38.4m to local businesses and local economy every year.\u00a0It\u2019s been a brilliant Airshow.<\/p>\n
“Thanks to the clear skies, we had our best ever Saturday with tens of thousands of people on the beach soaking up the sunshine and the show. We\u2019re still evaluating Sunday\u2019s figures after the rain but it has been a truly amazing weekend. Despite the showers, Sunday’s show still went ahead and we only had to cancel two of the 18 flying displays.”<\/p>\n
For safety and security reasons this year\u2019s show saw road closures on Oystermouth Road, but this also meant that visitors had more space to enjoy increased ground displays including a rare appearance on the ground of a RAF Red Arrow.<\/p>\n
Cllr Francis-Davies said: \u201cThis year the RAF is celebrating its 100th<\/sup> anniversary, we\u2019re commemorating the centenary of the end of World War I and Saturday was Armed Forces Day.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Wales Airshow was the perfect platform for all these occasions \u2013 a mix of old favourites as well as new recruits such as live music featuring local bands on the ground and the Bremont Great War Team including British SE5 biplanes and a German Junkers CL1.<\/p>\n Cllr Francis-Davies said: \u201cThe real stars of the show, apart from those in the skies, were the hundreds of thousands of people who come to enjoy a day out or a weekend in Swansea. The family atmosphere they helped generate resulted in one of the best weekends the city has seen.<\/p>\n \u201cFollowing so closely on from BBC Music\u2019s Biggest Weekend in Singleton Park and seven days after The Killers took the Liberty Stadium by storm, it just proved that Swansea has got the biggest and best stage for summer events.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI also want to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the tremendous effort put in by council staff, South Wales Police and by our other partners to make the event such a brilliant showcase. I\u2019d also like to thank our sponsors who help to support the sustainability of the Show.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re confident that the thousands of visitors who enjoyed themselves this year will return to Swansea Bay again soon. We are already looking forward to the rest of this year\u2019s events calendar, giving more people even more reasons to visit this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hundreds of thousands of people descend on Swansea to enjoy the country\u2019s biggest free show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-airshow-news","8":"category-press-releases","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n