Drivers Drivers include amount of non-aeronautical operating revenue, as well as amount of aeronautical revenue. Non-aeronautical revenue drivers include management decisions, passenger scale, contractual terms, facilities constraints, natural resources on site, location in areas that offer commercial opportunities, degree of competition with off-airport parking and other commercial vendors, availability of mass transit, and many other factors. In cost-recovery based regulatory systems, aeronautical revenue may be driven primarily by capital and operating costs, which are often a function of the airport’s capital development phase as expansion/modernization programs are most likely to increase an airport’s cost when initially completed. Benchmarking Useful for internal benchmarking. External benchmarking should be approached very carefully because of the difficulty in finding a comparable peer group in terms of the many factors listed above. Comments Measures success in diversifying revenue source away from aeronautical charges. However, measures revenue only, not margin or ROI. Primary sources of non-aeronautical operating revenue are typically retail concessions, car parking, property income and rent, food & beverage, rental car concessions, advertising—with significant variations in mix between airports and in different regions. Use of this PI is primarily a starting point for further analysis.
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Definition Total non-aeronautical operating revenue per passenger, measured over the course of a year. Applicability All commercial service airports Drivers Drivers include management decisions, passenger scale, contractual terms, facilities constraints, natural resources on site, location in areas that offer commercial opportunities, degree of competition with off-airport parking and other commercial vendors, availability of mass transit, and many other factors. The passenger divisor is driven by local demand and airline route planning and pricing decisions.
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