Airports are ripping you off even more than you realized. Food and drink is often only supposed to cost 15% more at airports than it does outside. But when we went to investigate we found prices 50%-90% higher, and multi-billion dollar corporations making huge profits. Airport Prices Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTwtqw7k/_Cs47TKN53yvH8Smbru0kFBOgXIX8rdcK1J9gMfcnn2G2VxZeOz/_NwJGiONt54iCOnD-0uS/pubhtml#gid=809343588 Airport Prices Data (excel): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vReeKQjb90lKLfYpx5zR/_RYGEREfeBSYp4C-vhfNp6gK2dF8zwSQw1TokTbJOawoNZmXCZLWhtbB-xj/pub?output=xlsx Producer: Alec Opperman Editor: Addison Post Motion Designer: Addison Post Videographers: Evan Carter, Mark Comberiate, Addison Post Supervising Producer: Sam Quigley Research Fellow: Daria Nastasia Video Production Manager: Isabel Atalaya Video Production Coordinator: Jodi Clemens

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