On Saturday, I flew out of MME and was slightly puzzled. As one of the last passengers to go through the gate, I noticed how quiet the airside area of the terminal was, and would remain for at least the next 3 hours as the next departure was in about 4 hours time. Even at zero rent, how do all the retail outlets make any money and cover the costs of staff wages plus cost of goods sold ?
While nobody wants to be majorly overworked in their job, it seemed as if all the people working in the retail outlets would have very little to do for a considerable length of time. There is after all only so much cleaning one can do in a cafe or shelf restocking in a shop, and chat all day with colleagues eventually becomes mundane - only so much to discuss about last night's TV. So what do these people do during the quiet periods at MME ?