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How the airports profit from your lateness

Posted on 24. Jun, 2008 by Jonathan Cherry in Uncategorized

After reading this Forbes article – we can’t seem to get the image of greedy airport officials rubbing their hands together with glee behind darkened one-way glass, everytime there’s a nasty snarl up at the airport [which just seems to happen with disturbing frequency these days].

Think about it – your flight gets delayed, first thing you do is head to the Premier lounge and drown your sorrows in a bath tub of coffee and high-sugar cakes. Scheduled departure time axed – so too 5 pints of Guiness draft at the dodgy O’Hagens.
If everything ran like it should, the need for airport hospitality and retail wouldn’t exist.

Crafty buggers may just be behind these all of this recent airport mayhem, just to add a few more zeros onto their commercial bottomline.

Read: How airports profit from your wait – Forbes