This will have a knock on effect to the military airshows and maybe even the BBMFs survival, think about it, if a lot of airshows are priced out of existence where are you going to display the BBMF or the Reds? Once a year at Cosford? You then have problems justifying their military budgets as the airshow circuit dries up.
It also all has a knock on effect, without a plethora of airshows to offset the costs of owning and maintaining warbirds, owners will simply not be able to afford the operating costs, and sell off their aircraft, ( something that is already happening with some of the changes maintenance wise that has been foisted on them of late ) this will then in turn lead to a further demise of airshows as the acts are no longer in place to support them. And let’s face it, the likes of Cosford would then be a pretty short show if you took the civilian side out of it, and who would pay to see that.
My thoughts exactly.
The organisers of the airshows that have already cancelled are intimating (by cancelling) that they think these charges are going ahead regardless.
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