ABACE: Region’s growing market entices attendees
Despite the beginning of the Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day (a popular holiday in Hong Kong), the fast-approaching Singapore Airshow and temperatures lo

Despite the beginning of the Chinese New Year, Valentine’s Day (a popular holiday in Hong Kong), the fast-approaching Singapore Airshow and temperatures low enough to break a 40-year-record, the third Asian Business Aviation Conference &
Exhibition (ABACE) drew 1,131 people, 29 exhibitors and 14 aircraft on static display. Co-hosted by NBAA and the Asian Business Aviation Association (AsBAA), ABACE is the only Asian event dedicated solely to business aviation.

The one-day event was held in Hong Kong Business Aviation Centre’s cavernous hangar, where many of the local workers providing food service and other support wore ski jackets as protection against the 50 degree F temperatures.
About 100 people attended the opening session, at which NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen lauded Hong Kong as “synonymous with international trade and commerce.”

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