{"id":243488,"date":"2025-07-06T20:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T20:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243488\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T20:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T20:09:09","slug":"wales-airshow-2025-draws-huge-crowds-to-swansea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/243488\/","title":{"rendered":"Wales Airshow 2025 draws huge crowds to Swansea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days of flying featuring The Red Arrows, RAF Typhoon and many other displays delighted visitors from across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The Swansea Council-organised event saw huge crowds enjoy a wide range of interactive displays, activities, and live entertainment on the ground, as well as seeing the action in the air.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-193165 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/515973360_1143414207820669_497798099681645694_n-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\"  data-\/>Credit: Wales Air Show \/ Swansea Council<\/p>\n<p>Among the features and new for 2025, was The Royal Navy\u2019s Fleet Squadron Area Diving Group, with their exciting Dive Tank display, offering visitors a rare glimpse into the daring world of Mine Clearance Divers.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor\u00a0<strong>Robert Francis-Davies<\/strong>, Cabinet Member for Investment, Regeneration, Events and Tourism, at the council, said: \u201cAs one of the highlights of the annual Swansea events calendar, the airshow was a huge success, continuing to support the city\u2019s reputation as a top-class destination for major events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stars of the free-entry show included the hundreds of thousands of visitors who enjoyed a day out or a weekend in Swansea.\u00a0The family atmosphere resulted in a great weekend, and Saturday\u2019s rain didn\u2019t dampen the mood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe airshow contributes millions of pounds to the local economy, and we thank local businesses and residents for their patience with the road closures, and to all traders for their contribution to the latest show\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also appreciate the understanding of those whose daily routines were affected by the road changes implemented for everyone\u2019s safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The council thanked everyone who attended the airshow, as well council staff, emergency services, show sponsors and other council partners who helped make the event a top-quality showcase for the city.<\/p>\n<p>Swansea has a wide range of top-quality events this year and is welcoming the return of IRONMAN 70.3 Swansea on July 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two days of flying featuring The Red Arrows, RAF Typhoon and many other displays delighted visitors from across&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-243488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114808105508369900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}