I can see where he is coming from in having the airport as a venue destination where flights are a part of it but not the main part.
Would that be like one of these petrol stations that now doubles up as a 7/11 or 24/7 shop?
One nips in to fill the car with fuel, rushes to the cash counter only to get stuck behind a long queue of people buying their Sunday newspaper, their pint of milk, their bag of potato chips and so on ...