This years Sywell Show is £15 if you buy your ticket early, and thats for a three and a half hrs display including the Red Arrows. Non profit making as all the profits go to the local Air Ambulance.
Although to be perfectly honest reading most of the posts here I wonder why we bother!!
If you are not happy with whats on offer then try running your own, maybe then you will understand the costs and hard work and hasell that is involved in putting a show on.

You seem to have misunderstood. I would prefer to visit Sywell than one of the massive shows like RIAT. Sywell is about 220 miles for the round trip – roughly the same as Old Warden – which means that the admission, petrol and something to eat for my other half and I isn’t going to leave much change from £100 and that is £100 that I simply don’t have.
In the past I have been involved in running motorcycle events so I am well aware of the costs, work and hassle in running any event but with the current financial squeeze I am sure many others, like myself, get left with little spare money at the end of each month. If I don’t have the money in the first place I can’t spend it.
One option is to join those who stand outside and watch from the boundary hedge but there is no way I would join the freeloaders out there. If I ever take photos from outside the airfield at Old Warden or any other show I ALWAYS pay my admission and make my way back to a good spot for photos simply because I want to do my bit to make sure that displays continue and that goes for all displays regardless of the airfield.