Originally Posted by
EI-BUD
No news story here. The challenge was that the airport in needing to facilitate a based low cost airline they needed to be open from early morning until late night. Resulting in coverage of all services being in place all day long.
Contrast to Knock airport who don't have a based airline and usually have a window of flying say 0900 to 1700 , with a bit later on some days, but not before 0800 and not later than 2000.
Even if the airport got strong fees from Jet2 (I don't know what there commercial terms were), they simply didn't have enough volume to cover costs. Volume is needed to support concessions and retailers and car parks which in many airports contribute over 50% of all income...
And at least for some time car parking was free.