How an airport makes money?

Question

How an airport makes money?

Answer 1

Landing fees are a big one.  Every time an airplane lands, it pays a fee to the airport.  Airlines lease gates and ticket counter space.  Vendors lease retail space.  Selling advertising space.  The passenger ticket taxes go to a government fund, which then gets reinvested into airports.  Many airports are municipally supported (taxpayers).

Answer 2

when you buy the tickets it goes to the air port

Answer 3

Oh, that's a complicated question. But basically it goes like this:

An airline signs a "master contract" with an airport, that basically says here's $$$$, I want to operate here. This is for length of contract (usually several years)

Then the airline will negotiate for individual flights "landing fees".  This fee is paid "per flight". Some time slots cost more than others. Day time cost more than night time, and so on and so forth.

Then the airline will negotiate for gate space. If they want gates dedicated to them, and gates closer to the exit, they pay more than if they share with other airlines or further away. Same for the ticket counters.

Airport will contract out the plane refuel and plane maintainance operations, but depending on the contract negotiated, it could get back a flat fee per month, or a small percentage of the proceeds.

And that's just the airline side.

Inside the terminals, every one of the shops, food or other things, even the duty-free shops, are leased out by the airport. That is often the reason why airport food costs way more than outside food. They pay a LOT in rent. That's revenue.

On the passenger side, there's parking fee for the long and short term parking. There's charges to the taxi and limo drivers (taxis PAY the airport to pick up from the airport, really) as well as the various charter bus and van shuttle operations (they issue transponders to licensed vehicles, and charge both a monthly fee as well as a trip fee based on the transponders). There's also the 9/11 security fee surcharge per ticket.

Finally, many airports are large enough to have extra land, so there are nearby hotels and gas stations and other businesses built nearby on airport land. Those are leases and also generates some revenue for the airport.

Answer 4

Lots of ways. If your refering to the airport property, then Almost all the land at an airport is owned by the county that it is in. They then lease the land to the buisness. Almost every terminal buliding is on leased property.  Because the city owns the land, every aircraft that lands, (over a certian size) has to pay a landing fee. Also, there is at many places, a ramp fee for parking an aircraft.

Passenger tickets also have a surchage on it.

Business make their money by charging for fuel, (other than contract, which they will charge an in to plane rate to fuel the aircraft), load/offload/cleanging/sanitation fees to handle the aircraft, a facality fee, and overnight parking fees

Although, not the airport's money,

Fuel sales generates alot of money in taxes, and so does FET. (Federal Excise Tax) that is applied to charter costs and passenger ticket sales, like a sales tax.  These taxes are what helps pay for airport expansion, improvement, and maintence.

Answer 5

the rent the gates to the airlines, rent the commercial stores, charge for parking, etc.

Answer 6

Airports are supported with tax money, as well as fees charged to airlines that use it.

Answer 7

From buying tickets, a certain amount of the cost goes to them.  Then each of the companies that operate out of the airport pay the airport terminal fees.  Not to mention the money paid by all the stores inside the airport.

Answer 8

IT MAKES MONEY BY:

1)PARKING FARE

2)BUYING TICKETS FOR GOING INTO THE AIRPORT

3)FOOD COUNTERS

4)ETC