Originally Posted by
RobertS975
The airline industry is really not a good way to make money... I always thought that the airlines, if they were clever, would ask for a cut of all the airport concessions, the terminal rentals, the parking etc. For without the airlines flying their historically money losing routes, those airport parking spaces would have no cars parked in them for $25 a day!
Some of the European LCC's, notably RyanAir, does exactly that.