When I talk to businesses in provincial locations, they are unanimous in saying that they would love to be able to work with their local airport and any aircraft operator who would provide the service that they, as customers, want not something dictated by the AOCs accountant based on trying to steal a piece of someone else's pie and supposedly "efficient use of the aircraft".
The service station analogy is reasonable, and it doesn't take much creative thinking to resolve the problem of confused queues, so yes - there's every incentive to integrate a 1500m runway + a/c into the local business infrastructure and invite the people of the area to write a better business plan.
Originally Posted by Capetonian
If an aircraft flying is 'burning through your cash reserves' rather than making money, there is something wrong with your revenue management policy.
I think we have more than enough past and present examples to show that the "industry standard" in this respect is hopelessly out of touch with commercial reality.