James_Chan wrote:
Other airports across the country have plenty of unused slots, but refuse to drop their prices and/or impose significant mandatory handling fees.They cannot be bothered with “poor” customers.
I can imagine that. In the UK, business people will commit financial suicide in trying to cultivate a posh image, and that’s fine as long as it’s a posh suicide 
I think they are conditioned to believe that somehow, someway that ‘posh’ will produce wealth, versus volume of sales. Its a cultural issue that prevents competition – because none of the players believe they will benefit individually if they compete based on value. It would be rational behavior in a world where buyers could only be drawn from a small, status conscious fraction of the population to whom cost was not a problem, but that’s not how you make money in the modern world.
That’s an accurate summary of Europe’s “bizjet airports”. Attract the posh, keep the non-posh out of the way while the post are being loaded and unloaded, and hope the posh will continue to spend their money
