"Earl Grieda" wrote in message
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So, your guesstimate is that for every one person flying there is a
cummaltive 10 people in a terminal watching them depart or arrive. That,
to
me, seems like an inflated estimate.

It may be off, but I don't think it's by much. Here at SeaTac they have a
billboard with "airport statistics", and I was surprised at the large factor
between flying passengers and non-passengers in the airport. Non-passengers
beat out the passengers by a huge margin, and it was mostly friends and
family, rather than airport workers, that made up the difference.

I don't know if it was 10X, but it was some large (greater than 2) factor.

Not that whatever the factor is, it has anything to do with the original
question.

Pete