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How many employees per gate do London's airports have?
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? Stansted, like Heathrow, has a lot of freight, and none of its costs are covered by passenger fares. Heathrow airlines tend to provide more luxuries than Ryanair (some included in the fare, some not, but still needing staff). For example, Heathrow has numerous staffed first and business class lounges, at least 25 in all. It has more manned check-ins per thousand pax. Stansted has few such facilities. Nor does it have branches of Harrods, Gordon Ramsay restaurants, etc. Heathrow has many long haul flights, that need more catering and other amenities. These are Heathrow's charges: https://www.heathrow.com/file_source/Company/Static/PDF/Partnersandsuppliers/HAL-Conditions-of-Use-Amendment-SCHEDULE5-Up_date-25April2014.pdf As you can see, it explains why you don't find Ryanair, or Ryanair-style fares, at Heathrow. |
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How many employees per gate do London's airports have?
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-sept ember.org, at 04:08:33 on Fri, 29 Jun 2018, Recliner remarked: 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? Stansted, like Heathrow, has a lot of freight, and none of its costs are covered by passenger fares. Heathrow airlines tend to provide more luxuries than Ryanair (some included in the fare, some not, but still needing staff). For example, Heathrow has numerous staffed first and business class lounges, at least 25 in all. It has more manned check-ins per thousand pax. Stansted has few such facilities. Nor does it have branches of Harrods, http://www.harrodsaviation.com/stansted.html Gordon Ramsay restaurants, etc. Joking apart, Stansted has several "overpriced franchise" retail and catering outlets though. https://www.stansted-airport-guide.co.uk/shops.html http://www.stanstedairport.com/at-th...t/restaurants/ James Martin is the new Gordon Ramsay, perhaps? Heathrow has many long haul flights, that need more catering and other amenities. These are Heathrow's charges: https://www.heathrow.com/file_source...artnersandsupp liers/HAL-Conditions-of-Use-Amendment-SCHEDULE5-Up_date-25April2014.pdf As you can see, it explains why you don't find Ryanair, or Ryanair-style fares, at Heathrow. -- Roland Perry |
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