Wow, owning and managing Caribbean airports is an attractive business.
I wonder who gets the Passenger Screening Fees and Airport Improvement Fees. I'm assuming the Airport Improvement fees go to the airport owners as well. So that is $41.50 a passenger x 800,000 passengers for a cool $33 million annually plus all the other income generating activities. Not bad for an airport.
One thing to keep in mind is that many of these airports split fees with Airlines.
For instance, American Airlines makes a killing at CLT since they get a cut of parking fees, vendor fees and other airport generated revenue as part of their deal to use CLT as a hub. Not sure what the deals are with airlines but I would assume a 50/50 split is not unreasonable in order to get the cooperation of airlines and have it automatically billed.
It's a shame that this money is not going to the government where it is badly needed to invest in schools, infrastructure and security that ultimately benefits tourists.
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