Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
By getting in first and having a crisis and collapse before everybody else?
And the way I read DC3 Dave's original post was that if demand falls significantly, small airports with their lower overall cost base would have an advantage - bigger airports would be spreading their higher fixed costs over a smaller number of customers, so would lose their economy of scale advantage.
And no, I don't remember the dinosaurs!
But the bigger airports generally have a financial infrastructure backing them to support a prolonged downturn in revenue!