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No, I am not sure. An airport’s purpose is to fly passengers. I don’t really want a mechanism for airlines to pay just to have empty gates. Isn’t that kind of d
by thehappypm 5y ago
No, I am not sure. An airport’s purpose is to fly passengers. I don’t really want a mechanism for airlines to pay just to have empty gates. Isn’t that kind of dystopian? Shuttered gates, paid for by Delta to ensure its monopoly?
- somebodythere 5y agoI mean it's not like they were flying passengers regardless.
- thehappypm 5y agoThey would gladly have passengers if the demand was there.
- thematrixturtle 5y agoIt's the airport equivalent of a land tax: making people pay for hogging scarce resources is a strong incentive to either use them or sell them off to somebody else who will.
- quantified 5y agoExactly. Let Lutfhansa spend all its money to fly the empty planes.
- KSteffensen 5y agoI'm sure this could be worked out using some combination of paying for the slot and requiring a minimum amount of passengers/cargo. Exact numbers would require some tuning by people who know about this but doesn't seem impossible to get right. E.g. have airlines pay a fee for any empty seat below an 80% full plane. Having planes fly empty to maintain a monopoly is just bad all around