Bill Watson
En-Route
- Joined
- Dec 5, 2007
- Messages
- 2,703
- Location
- Durham NC
- Display Name
- MauleDriver
- Home Airfield
- Lake Ridge Aero Park
We have to disclose the different aircraft we serve and they average our premiums based on that. So we give them year before numbers of the type/quantity aircraft we serviced. In a way like a work comp audit, but not quite as much.
The goal with the facility/ramp fees is to get people to buy fuel. Fuel is way more profitable than hangar, tie-down and ramp fees. That being said if you eliminate ramp fees you give away your services to those who don't purchase fuel or who purchased fuel next door for a lower price than came to use your services. We used to never, ever charge those fees. But once you're taken advantage of on a reulgar basis, you have to do something.
I've gotten in the habit of filling up at every stop. It's a practice and convenient thing to do in my flying of my RV10, YMMV.
No one has charged me a ramp fee in quite awhile as a result. Only loser is my home field's private pump because I buy bit less fuel at home.
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