Originally Posted by Romaro
If you take the most recent pre-recession throughput of GA at COV, say 2007, what you saw was 28K training movements, 5K 'aero club', 7K private and 3K 'air taxi' which must also havve included biz av in COV's case. That's 22K landings. Assume an average revenue of say £20 per landing (use any figure you want but let's be realistic), then that's £440K/annum.
£20 for training and club movements, maybe (but then some will be paying approach/beacon slot fees too). However, the prices that commercial aircraft (even just light twins) get charged for landing, parking and handling are much higher.
I've paid £450 for a night landing at BHX in a light cessna twin - less than four tonnes, no passengers. Even the smaller airports will charge £80+ just for a daytime landing. Now add to that the profits made on selling fuel (when landing away we'll regularly pick up 800+ ltrs), and handling (take the mandatory 25 metre ride in the back of the standard issue Merc VITO, open a cheque book and drop your pants)... It doesn't take many movements to build up a large turnover.