Old Sarum is £10 including VAT per single landing (not ex VAT) and ONLY £25 excluding VAT per month unlimited landings. £20 ex VAT for microlights. The comment...
** To accommodate a similar requirement, this level of service would require an additional 3 members of staff to count / log the landings and provide monthly invoices on a retrospective basis
Is rubbish as Old Sarum, like most airfields, has 1 person to take landing fees from any VISITING AICRAFT, payments are taken on landing, no invoice and the pilot fills out the log. BUT are we are talking about 39 resident aircraft who would've paid already? Now if we are talking about visiting aircraft who exactly receives these fees? Surely it should be the resident GA who are being charged for the whole service....?
Why are they charging their their electric bill, rent etc (when they already removed the heating oil, window cleaning etc) all to GA - these are not all GA costs surely?
£30k pa for 'gate maintenance'?? WTF are they doing with my taxes?? these are NEW gates that only cost 6K (as they indicate) to replace every 20 years!!!
Why are they charging a yearly fee for 5/6/10/20 and 25 year items??? These should be divided by the years they are quoted for!
80,700 - QUESTIONABLE costs
850 cost of insurance
30,000 for "GATE MAINTENANCE"??
7,300 grass cutting
8,200 for landlord building maintenance
6,000 for bunding the runway
300 to replace the gage
1,200 for the fence
I make this £ 134,550
Now for the GA 'specific' costs:
A charge for the Air Support Manager of £10,500 which is a cost already being incured anyway and is not therefore GA specific and his pay rise as well?
An extra £500 quid to answer the phone and get the gate?? Come on he's on £ 72,500 a year already!
Profesional charges amounting to £350 per 'client' for a rolling lease??? What sort of rip off is this? These are not new contracts, the agreement automatically terminates if the the 'client' fails to pay so WHY the fees?
And the last laugh - being charged £30 each to run off an invoice. Hahahaha.
I think you'll find most of this falls under the unfair charges remit.
BUT lets say these charges ARE added then we have a total of: 134,550 x 20% = 26,910 plus 39,490 is 66,400 / 39 clients = £1,702
minus of course a 39th share of all the landing fees collected in the year.
If eveyone is parked in a hangar then these charges look more realistic.