At night, a tethered hot air balloon glows while rock bands play in a concert. The event starts with hot air balloon take-offs very early in the morning and ends late at night after the concert. Various stalls, including restaurant outlets showcasing Pampanga's mouth-watering delicacies, are set up for spectators. The event starts with hot air balloon take-offs very early in the morning and ends late at night after the concert. Various stalls, including restaurant outlets showcasing Pampanga's mouth-watering delicacies, are set up for spectators.

The festival, over the years, has attracted thousands of spectators and participants to this once-a-year affair in Clark Field – formerly the largest American airbase outside the United States. Local and foreign pilots offer fun flights in balloons, fixed-wing aircrafts and ultra lights to the public at reasonably discounted prices.

The Philippine Aeromodellers Club performs freestyle aerobatics, pylon racing, gliding on hi-start launch, banner towing, helicopter flying exhibitions and an aero-modeling symposium.

The Kite Association of the Philippines (KAP) – an all-volunteer, non-profit, nongovernmental cultural organization – participates in the fiesta to develop and promote the art of kite making and kite flying.

The Philippine Flightsimmers Group promotes flight simulation through the Internet. Although based in the Philippines, the Group's friends from all over the world make “group flights” to wherever they want to go, like say, from Cebu to Sydney or even Europe.

Of course the festival will not be complete without the participation of the Angeles City Four Wheelers Club, Inc. Members of the group do not merely serve as chase crews but have actually become real friends of the regular balloonists of the festival. The annual event has two objectives, that is to promote the Philippines as a sport aviation destination in Asia and to increase public awareness of hot air balloons as an aviation sport.