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Here’s how airports make money

Posted by / July 22, 2018

How often do you go to the airport without buying a single a thing? Probably pretty often, if you’re even the least bit frugal. But even if you did buy a lot––which many people do––those purchases still aren’t enough to keep an airport in business. This video looks at the example of Heathrow, an entirely privately-owned airport. For it to break even, each passenger needs to spend nineteen bucks. Everything people buy at the airport goes towards that number, but each business takes a big cut of the expenses. The rest comes from airlines.

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  • Great blog post! Very cool information that I never knew!