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Not really for most small airports. The plane is in the $ 200 per hour range, so a 1 hour out and 1 hour back flight is $ 400 in rental and fuel. The landing fee is more like $10-20 and often free if you buy fuel there. Only big airports with mandatory ground handling are expensive to land at.
Typical small US airports still don't charge landing fees to light aircraft, but things are changing. Now that ADS-B[1] is deployed widely, airports are looking at automated landing fee charges as another way to soak pilots, just because they now can. A number of companies are sprouting up to meet this demand and offer airports their turnkey systems to monitor and charge everyone who lands, sharing the profit with th…
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When I was a teenager, I was in a boarding school (1975 or so). When we went on trips, we’d get $2 for lunch. At McDonald’s, I could get 6 cheeseburgers and a Coke for that (I was a teen. I had no problem, eating them all).
That's like >$10 in today's money. Significantly more than I would give kids for lunch today 5 EUR (about $1 in 1975) is about the cost of a Döner Kebab which is more than enough for a teenager
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When I was a teenager, I was in a boarding school (1975 or so). When we went on trips, we’d get $2 for lunch. At McDonald’s, I could get 6 cheeseburgers and a Coke for that (I was a teen. I had no problem, eating them all).
That's like >$10 in today's money. Significantly more than I would give kids for lunch today 5 EUR (about $1 in 1975) is about the cost of a Döner Kebab which is more than enough for a teenager
You watched any teenage boys eating, recently?
I assume a doner is about the same as a gyro sandwich, around here (usually $7-$10).
A good teenager can shovel down two of them, easy.