Farnborough International Airshow. A whole industry, in one Hampshire town.

Farnborough is an ordinary Hampshire town with an extraordinary week bolted onto it. The exhibition centre sits beside a live airfield, the approach is via a handful of roads, and the trade days concentrate arrivals into a narrow morning window because everybody has a nine o'clock meeting in a chalet. General visitor parking is off site, with free shuttle buses from Queens Parade in Aldershot, and there is a continuous free shuttle from Farnborough Main station. That works well for a visitor. It works badly for a delegation with four back-to-back appointments and a flight to catch.

What our clients want in show week is different from what a general attendee wants. They want a car that stays with them from Monday to Thursday, drops as close to their gate as the traffic plan permits, and is waiting when a meeting overruns. They want the same chauffeur, who by Tuesday knows which of the approaches is moving. And they want somebody else to be watching the return flight.

Farnborough Airport is one of Europe's leading business aviation airports for fifty-one weeks of the year. In show week the airfield is the show, with the flying display, the static park and the arrivals of participating aircraft taking priority. Expect movement and access restrictions during display hours, and ask your operator or handling agent about them long before you book a meeting for four o'clock on the Tuesday.

In practice a lot of visiting aircraft arrive the weekend before, or use Biggin Hill, London Oxford, Luton or Northolt and drive in. That adds forty minutes to two hours each way depending on the field and the hour, which is exactly the sort of decision worth making in April rather than on the day. Ask us and we will lay out the options with honest times against each.

If you are hosting customers, the transport is part of the hospitality and it is the part they remember. The useful details are unglamorous: give us the gate on your pass rather than the site address, tell us how many guests are arriving under their own steam and from where, and decide in advance whether cars wait on site or stand off and come forward on a call. We will also tell you plainly when walking two hundred metres is faster than moving a car, which in show week is more often than people expect.