Prague airport has bad rep for prices

Prague Airport has had a bad reputation for a while now because of taxi drivers routinely ripping off tourists.
They’ve been trying to fix that and attempts have been made to standardise fares to/from the airport.
The reputation of Prague airport being a ripoff however isn’t being helped by their food prices. Popular wisdom in airport pricing says you should price benchmark products (like coffee & beer) at roughly the same as city prices.
However at Prague Airport, a latte is 110Kc (vs 40Kc in the city) – for Aussies thats $7 for a cup of coffee. A beer costs about $7 (vs $2 in the city) and a cheeseburger from one of their cafes was a whopping $17!.

McDonalds since they opened there have been going well with their more reasonably priced food but thats creating unmanageable queues at McDonalds and chewing up valuable dwell time (read spending time).

Prague Airport have recently commissioned a major research study into what passengers want in airports. It will be interesting to see if any issue is able to see daylight if there’s that much problem with pricing.

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