I have just read your article about the Air Tattoo (EA, Mon July 22) and I think it understates the anger, frustration and disappointment felt by many at the delays in getting to the event.

I work in Swindon but live some way away and so we made an early start on Saturday. We arrived at the back of the traffic queue on the A419 just short of the Turnpike roundabout at 7.40 am.

Although we tuned into Vulcan FM, the airshow radio station, there was no information at all as to why the traffic was stationary for a full hour on the A419 before moving again. We then stopped completely nearer to Fairford for another 40 minutes for no apparent reason.

We finally walked in to the actual show at 12.10, meaning we had missed almost half of the day. Contrary to your report most of us arriving into the blue car parks took two hours (not 90 minutes) to get from there into the show a couple of hundred yards away. I would say that the level of security required (presumably) by the US Air Force was incompatible with a large public event, and the best thing would have been to cancel it.

I certainly do not begrudge the RAF Benefit Fund the money from my ticket, even though I only got half what I paid for, but from the conversations with those waiting patiently around me, there will be many who will not make the journey to RAF Fairford next time.

This will be to the detriment of the RAF charity sadly.

The shuttle bus service from Swindon bus station may or may not have been quicker.

There was virtually no infor-mation to be had in advance about where the buses would drop you and whether you would have to join the onfoot queue like everybody else. Perhaps in future much more publicity can be given to this facility.

Then they should make sure people know it will be advantageous to use it maybe extend it to have more starting points than just the bus station?

I would certainly attend again in future if I felt that some drastic changes had been made to the admissions process.

But as I had successfully persuaded my wife and young daughter that it would be a good family day out for all of us, my credibility on that front has been well and truly destroyed.

Peter Beaves

Nutbourne

Chichester

West Sussex