Air show mayhem
Sometimes Dubai does it so well, but at the last moment manages to totally screw up and leave people thinking the place is a shambles.
Take today, a great airshow, well attended with a good cross section of totally the right kind of people , I must have heard every language on earth at some time or other.
The displays were good, even the boring interior stuff was good, the aircraft were much more accessible than the big shows in Europe and the US .
At the end of the day, in fact just after a great show from the A380, the weasel started to wander home and this is where all the effort fell totally off the rails.
The idea is good, remove the delegates from the crush outside the show to a manageable space near the end of the runway by bus, where fleets of taxis will be waiting.
It all works up to the taxi bit, not only were the not fleets waiting, there weren't any waiting and only 1 every 2 or 3 mins coming in.
Busses arrived every minute bringing people in and nobody left, at one stage the queue must have been 5 or 600 yards long and 3-4 deep, do the maths that is well over a thousand delegates of an industry that Dubai in some ways depends on, left standing in a car park near Mirdiff.
I stood in the queue for 1 hour 40 mins, it was just as long when I left as when I arrived.
When we got in the cab we asked the guy what happened?
It turns out none of the cabs knew where to go, he had been trying to find the place almost as long as I had been standing in the queue.
So several thousands of delegates have now left wondering if this place will ever be able to work out it's arse from it's elbow.
Quel surprise
Take today, a great airshow, well attended with a good cross section of totally the right kind of people , I must have heard every language on earth at some time or other.
The displays were good, even the boring interior stuff was good, the aircraft were much more accessible than the big shows in Europe and the US .
At the end of the day, in fact just after a great show from the A380, the weasel started to wander home and this is where all the effort fell totally off the rails.
The idea is good, remove the delegates from the crush outside the show to a manageable space near the end of the runway by bus, where fleets of taxis will be waiting.
It all works up to the taxi bit, not only were the not fleets waiting, there weren't any waiting and only 1 every 2 or 3 mins coming in.
Busses arrived every minute bringing people in and nobody left, at one stage the queue must have been 5 or 600 yards long and 3-4 deep, do the maths that is well over a thousand delegates of an industry that Dubai in some ways depends on, left standing in a car park near Mirdiff.
I stood in the queue for 1 hour 40 mins, it was just as long when I left as when I arrived.
When we got in the cab we asked the guy what happened?
It turns out none of the cabs knew where to go, he had been trying to find the place almost as long as I had been standing in the queue.
So several thousands of delegates have now left wondering if this place will ever be able to work out it's arse from it's elbow.
Quel surprise
posted by Desert_Weasel at 8:01 pm
6 Comments:
It was a similar situation after the Phil Collins concert the other week.
oh my - i am going there tomorrow. What do you suggest Weasel? Should i take my car or a cab?
sorry didn't read this in time, there is a car park after the exhibition centre but no signs to it so naturally it was empty.
Hope you made it ok
tomorrow for me too.....hope someone sorts this bit out for me, I don't like messes.
A couple of days after this post I booked a taxi from Do Buy TranzPORT. I called them when nothing had appeard after half an hour and they said that all their taxis were at the Air Show, but that one of them had been despatched from there (it was 7 pm, we're in Jebel Ali - do they really think we're gonna wait for over an hour for the cab to get through the traffic?!). We ventured out onto the road and found a spare National Taxi after about 10 minutes.
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