This piece is the third in a series called AIRMALLed: Failures of the Airport Concessions Private Developer Option. Recent data regarding poor quality of jobs under a private airport concessions developer indicates that this concessions model not only harms workers but also negatively impacts taxpayers and the local economy.

This piece is the second in a series called AIRMALLed: Failures of the Airport Concessions Private Developer Option. Overall sales performance at concessions programs managed by Airmall needs to be higher to justify foregone revenue from percentage rent under this model.

Over the last year, Lufthansa, the largest airline in Europe and a leader in the global Star Alliance, has been involved in contentious contract negotiations with unions representing thousands of workers in Europe and North America. The situation poses a short term and potentially long term risk of travel disruption at several locations in Lufthansa's global network.

This piece is the first in a series called AIRMALLed: Failures of the Airport Concessions Private Developer Option. This piece demonstrates that the percentage rent of concessions sales paid to airports which utilize the concessions developer Airmall USA (Baltimore/Washington, Boston Logan, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland Hopkins International Airports) are lower than rents collected by peer airports.

The first in a series of assessments of what airports are doing to secure this increasingly critical part of the financial equation.

Read the Airport Group's analysis of airport concessions developers and their impact on airports and workers.

Our database of 215 airports in the U.S. and Canada offers a comprehensive portrait of the airport concessions industry, including concessions operations, upcoming and current Requests for Proposals, and expansion possibilities.

The Airport Group keeps current on trends in airport development and capital investment. We have answers to your questions about how privatization could change the airport landscape.