AAAE Certified Member (CM) Module 2 Practice Test

In airport terminal planning, you only rent out spaces that are designated as rentable or usable for tenants. A large portion of the terminal must remain for passenger movement, security, operations, and support services, so not all space can be leased. The fraction that can be rented is the rentable area divided by the total terminal area.

55% being the answer fits the common balance between revenue-generating space (shops, lounges, concessions, offices) and necessary non-rentable areas (circulation corridors, gates, security zones, mechanical rooms, baggage handling, back-of-house spaces). For example, if the terminal is 100,000 square feet in total, about 55,000 square feet would be rentable, with the remaining 45,000 square feet allocated to non-rentable or operational use.

So, the available-for-rent figure reflects how much of the terminal space can be leased while still supporting efficient passenger flow and essential operations.