2014-04-01
In celebration of April Fool's Day, we are finally delivering on a long-overdue promise to publish some of the silly or nonsensical queries that grace the QoD "in" box from time to time, together with our hypothetical answers. It's all just in the spirit of some harmless fun, so please don't anyone take offense, should you find a question of yours below that was submitted in all seriousness; instead, take gratification that you know your goof is giving others a healthy giggle.
2014-03-27
Camels: The Trilogy (Part I). We have, seemingly coincidentally, received a number of camel-related Questions of the Day lately, so we've decided to string together a camel train, so to speak, commencing with an updated re-run of an interesting QoD about live ones that first ran back in August, 2007. Stay tuned for more tales of even-toed ungulates in coming days!
2014-03-22
I was looking at the revenue from the Consolidated Facility Charge (CFC) at McCarran Airport and the number did not make sense to me. For fiscal year 2013 (July 1, 2012-June 30, 2013), the CFC brought in $36,166,000. At $3.75 per day, that is 9,644,267 rental car days. If an average rental is five days (probably less) that is 1,928,853 car rentals. With 11 companies in the Rent-A-Car center and 365 days per year, that works out to 480 rentals each day at each rental car company or 20 rentals per hour per company.
That just does not sound right. Any insight into the CFC totals? Also, is there any reason why we still have to pay that when the original purpose of the fee was to finance the building and facilities? That has to be paid off by now.