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Actually, there is a “supply and demand” difference. It costs way more than $50 or $100 to heat a large hangar, and especially to reheat it after opening the doors. A small airport FBO would probably rather lose a little bit of income than lose money by reheating the hangar twice.
The larger airport FBO most likely didn’t open and close the doors twice for every airplane in the hangar. More likely they had a hangarful of airplanes ready to pull in at once, which would cover the reheating costs.
This may be the case but then they should have told me the fee is $150 + $200 to get in and out instead of sneaking in that charge. Also, nowhere else have I ever been charged a door opening/closing fee. Not in ND, MT, SD and all of those places were pretty darn cold when I visited.