Paying for airshows?

[FiLtH]

 Its costs alot to "Live Free"

[milesobrian]

The person who said air shows should be free since we pay for it in our tax dollars is right.  If they needed money to run the show they should allow entry on donation so people can pay what they can afford especially in current economic times, at least if the air force or any other branch does it.  However private citizen run airshows i guess are another story......If they claim the proceeds go to charity they should have to specify how much is actually going to charity.

by the way did they give discounts to seniors and or students ???

[CAP1]

The person who said air shows should be free since we pay for it in our tax dollars is right.  If they needed money to run the show they should allow entry on donation so people can pay what they can afford especially in current economic times, at least if the air force or any other branch does it.  However private citizen run airshows i guess are another story......If they claim the proceeds go to charity they should have to specify how much is actually going to charity.

by the way did they give discounts to seniors and or students ???

no. it costs enormous amounts of money to fly these fighters.

the ww2 teams are paid to be there. there's a lot to take into consideration.....it's perfectly fair to have to pay.

[ZetaNine]

gone to more airshows at MacDill AFB is tampa (home of CENTCOM) than I can possibly remember.  never paid any cover..

[CAP1]

gone to more airshows at MacDill AFB is tampa (home of CENTCOM) than I can possibly remember.  never paid any cover..

they don't cost anything at mcguire afb either. well....for me they did. one of them, i think i got 8 hours sleep total for the weekend, as i was running cap's transportation there.......it's ok though, 'cause it was a BLAST.

 

[Belial]

Ive been to the reading PA arishow and that was like 30$....and I was at Dayton Ohio this year and I think that was 20 or 30$ too.


Nothing in life is free you pay for everything eventually one way or another.

[CAP1]

Ive been to the reading PA arishow and that was like 30$....and I was at Dayton Ohio this year and I think that was 20 or 30$ too.


Nothing in life is free you pay for everything eventually one way or another.

yea....i went to reading...i think 2 or 3 years ago. that's about what it cost us.......

when you think of the expense of the aircraft on display, not to mention the ones flying.......it is more than worth it.........