Originally Posted by
tigertanaka
- Look at pre-covid - £7.6m revenues on 138k pax - so £55 per passenger
- Last year had 193k pax - £15m is about £78 a head - an increase of 43% in 3 years, this feels like a big increase but not a ridiculous amount.
Of course not all the revenue is related to passengers but it is one of the key drivers. One would also imagine that Draken would be paying more than in the past and that fuel sales (which were £1.8m 5 years ago) would have been heavily helped by inflation.
Doubt we would get more info in the published accounts but there are strict rules about what companies are allowed to declare as turnover and there is added scrutiny as the airport has a public body as it's majority shareholder.
Is there though? I won’t pretend to know the ins and outs of what they are obliged to declare, but it does seem a bit dodgy that when Esken left their shares in the airport were handed to a ‘charitable trust’ that neither provides grants or accepts donations… Does this make the whole thing less susceptible to detailed scrutiny?