Who pays?
what happened Tuesday is a tragedy and I have followed some of the technical discussion amongst you with interest. I am not a pilot but involved with one of the Airport Operators and the type of developments you have been talking about.
No I am not going to tell you which airport but many of you would have and continue to use it.
I see the figures across the whole business. Operations, landing charges, power, water, maintenance, upgrades to runways, rent from your business and the non aviation occupiers. By the way, we do pay council rates and non avaiation tenants also get levied a land tax...
The truth is we loose money operating the airfield. A lot of money. We make money with the non aviation tenants and that income subsidies the airfield operations.
So who pays? Do you want your landing and parking charges to double. (Still won't get us to break even by the way - I've run the model)
No government is going to resume our (or any other) airport lease.
Happy to discuss.