Originally Posted by
Traffic_Is_Er_Was
Airports are wary of LCCs because they are here today, gone tomorrow. They are loath to provide infrastructure because the LCC will want everything, but want to pay nothing. LCCs also bring LCC problems, like LCC passengers, lowest tender GHAs, minimal staffing (if any) when things go wrong, etc.
Reminds me of way back when BA left QF and decided to give their GH to Menzies - somewhere down the track a phenomenal baggage outage occurred at SYD and hundreds of flights were delayed. QF delayed at least half a dozen QF flights to handle their client airlines first, BA were apparently told by Menzies later in the day "We've run out of staff, you'll have to check in and depart your own flight".
Not saying Menzies are like that now but it does tend to reinforce the efficacy of the old adage....... "pay peanuts, get monkeys"....