Originally Posted by
172pilot
How much does one pay for the airport improvement fee in YVR? And more importantly, other than really big pieces of local art, what are they doing with it? Obviously it's not on the security screening.
You know those kiosks anyone with a Canadian or US passport can use next to the Nexus machines that reduce crowding and expedite processing? Those were engineered with AIF funds. Now YVR gets to license those across the world.
YVR management have their fingers on a lot of things the average FF won't know about. Providing seed funding to new airports in developing countries (to then take a royalty), designing new tech (new machines are coming to CBSA soon), etc