John Williamson wrote:
On 28/06/2018 21:43, Roland Perry wrote:

It's not about gates, as people have said. More to do with "per departure".

And the number there is roughly a thousand passengers per staff member
per year, or, to put it another way, each person working at the airport
handles the equivalent of just under three passengers per day, ignoring
freight, which accounts for, at a guess, a quarter of the staff.


Each passenger, on average, probably uses the services of dozens of those
staff, even if they don't see them. For example, you don't see the baggage
handlers, ATC, cooks, CCTV operators, etc.