PH-UKU
No, I'm not an accountant and never have been, nor anything like it. Never worked in aviation or the travel industry either.
My position is that of a person who is interested in civil aviation, although I have never collected aircraft numbers or anything like that. I enjoy the ambience of airports, any airport large or small, and I love seeing airliners, again large or small, strutting their stuff. I often go out to BRS to watch the activity and can quite easily follow events from the perimeter public road, a country lane actually, but there is a large pull-in that can accommodate probably thirty or forty cars. Even has a resident ice cream van in summer.
I have watched my local airport (BRS) grow over the past twenty years or so from basically a charter field with an annual thoughput of just over a quarter of a million pax to a point where today it is an important regional airport with 4 million annual pax, and with more scheduled flights and pax than charter.
The old airport terminal was homely and friendly but not very efficient as the pax numbers grew. The new terminal is perhaps more sterile but it does the job, although at times even it is not always big enough.
Any future pilots, atcos or engineers have the benefit at BRS of seeing a much busier airport than was once the case in operation, although they may have to inconvenience themselves a tiny bit to see it. That would stop anyone bent on an aviation career I am sure.