This is killing me!!!

"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Joe Johnson" wrote in message
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Because you paid for the food. The analogy to your remark is pretty
clear...


It's a bad analogy. In a restaurant I pay for the food and tip for the
service. If I'm being charged directly for parking why would I tip for
parking?

Do you tip the guy at the valet parking lot?


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

"Allen" wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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The analogy is sound...You would pay for the parking spot and tip for
the service.


What service? Are we talking about valet aircraft parking? Telling me
where to park my airplane is not providing me with any service. It's a
bad
analogy.


Bringing me the food I ordered is not a service, that is what they are
paid
for.


If they just tossed it on yur table I suspect you'd scream bloddy murder.
:~)

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Allen wrote:

Bringing me the food I ordered is not a service, that is what they are
paid
for.

Actually, it's not. Many places in this area actually charge the wait
staff to
allow them to work there. Even where that is not the case, they are
usually paid
little or nothing. They really are working for the tips.

And the really good ones make plenty...the really bad ones last two days.


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

"Joe Johnson" wrote in message
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"Steven P. McNicoll" wrote in message
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"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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Okay, you've never studied economics, but this isn't a proper forum for
me
to teach it to you.

Ease up on the sarcasm. You failed to understand a simple analogy above.

And his understanding of economic, particularly market economics is abysmal.

As usual, he demonstrates little knowledge outside ATC rules and comes
across as a pompous and ignorant fool with his foot stuck in his mouth up to
the knee.


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

"Blueskies" wrote in message
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What subsidies to the feds give to the airport? There should be a public
transient
parking area for (pick a time) short term use...

The subsidies go to the municipality that owns and operates the airport, not
the FBO.
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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO

"jim rosinski" wrote in message
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mindenpilot wrote:

What makes it worse is they said, "There's no fee if you get 15
gallons of fuel".
That sounded OK to me. I was almost full anyway.
18 gallons of fuel at $3.73 a gallon!

Hard to see how providing a second option "makes it worse". 15 gallons
is a pretty small number, so I think this option takes quite a bit of
the sting out of having to otherwise spend $15 for pretty close to
nothing.

Jim Rosinski


Or so they'd have you think.
It was worse because it would have been cheaper to just pay the $15 pay for
the difference in price on 18 gallons.
If I was empty, it would have cost me $60 more to fill up there than at my
home base.
If you subtract out the $15 fee that I didn't pay by buying fuel, I'm still
$45 in the hole!

Just a bummer all the way around.
The two other places that sell 100LL at Reno charge $3.99 and $3.50, so
Sierra is right in the middle.
Similar to the original question I posed, how is it that there is a $0.50
difference at the same airport?
That's a 15% difference (from the lowest to highest)?

Adam
N7966L
Beech Super III

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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Do you tip the guy at the valet parking lot?


Yes.

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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And his understanding of economic, particularly market economics is
abysmal.

As usual, he demonstrates little knowledge outside ATC rules and comes
across as a pompous and ignorant fool with his foot stuck in his mouth up
to
the knee.


Wrong on all counts. You are consistent, I'll give you that.

Sorry for the rant.
I just flew into Reno tonight.
As it turns out, Sierra Air Center, the only GA facility on the ramp that
doesn't charge a ramp fee, now charges a $15 parking fee.
Yup, as of Jan 1 there's no more free landing at Reno.
What makes it worse is they said, "There's no fee if you get 15 gallons of
fuel".
That sounded OK to me. I was almost full anyway.
18 gallons of fuel at $3.73 a gallon!
It would have been cheaper if I filled up in Minden and paid the $15 parking
fee.
It's only $2.80/gal in Minden!
I felt violated!

Man, I'm bummed.
I liked to fly into Reno, get some lunch/dinner, practice in class C, etc.
No more.

Adam
N7966L
Beech Super III


KMTP, Montauk L.I. also charges $15 for parking but has no fuel. It's a great
place to fly into for lunch, the beach at the end of the runway, or golf . As a
resort area the price of land and housing is out of sight. If the property was
to be used for multi million dollar housing, would we regret not paying the
parking fee it it had helped keep the operation in business. Would we be
****ing and moaning if we had to pay parking fees to have kept Meigs open?

John

"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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As usual, he demonstrates little knowledge outside ATC rules and comes
across as a pompous and ignorant fool with his foot stuck in his mouth up
to
the knee.

Agree with that, Matt...