On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 3:23:01 AM UTC+5:30, Ding Bat wrote:
On Friday, June 29, 2018 at 2:30:37 AM UTC+5:30, 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.

1000/ employee/ year if you count passengers twice - when they arrive
and when they depart. For a passenger who both arrives and departs to
have to support 2/3rds of an employee's daily wage seems expensive.
That was the reason for the OP.

I wondered how many passengers per employee were handled by other
airports. Take Stansted airport. I paid 27 pounds to fly from Stansted
to Szczecin on Ryanair. How is the ticket so cheap if it has to cover
a substantial fraction of a worker's daily wage?

FWIW, there's this USA Today article:

How many people does it take to run an airport?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...yees/82385558/

63,000 people work at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In that count, ATL includes airline, ground transportation, concessionaire, security, federal government, City of Atlanta and airport tenant employees.

That count doesn’t include workers for the courtesy vehicles for airport-area hotels, rental car companies and private parking lots; nor the drivers of public transportation such as taxis, door-to-door shuttle vans, long-distance buses, etc.