Bill Watson
En-Route
We have to disclose the different aircraft we serve and they average our premiums based on that. So we give them year before numbers of the type/quantity aircraft we serviced. In a way like a work comp audit, but not quite as much.
The goal with the facility/ramp fees is to get people to buy fuel. Fuel is way more profitable than hangar, tie-down and ramp fees. That being said if you eliminate ramp fees you give away your services to those who don't purchase fuel or who purchased fuel next door for a lower price than came to use your services. We used to never, ever charge those fees. But once you're taken advantage of on a reulgar basis, you have to do something.
I've gotten in the habit of filling up at every stop. It's a practice and convenient thing to do in my flying of my RV10, YMMV.
No one has charged me a ramp fee in quite awhile as a result. Only loser is my home field's private pump because I buy bit less fuel at home.
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