exploit the hell out of their labor

The word you are looking for is “slavery”.

Anything can be an airport if you are suicidal rich enough.

It found almost half the jets travelled less than 500km and 900,000 were used “like taxis” for trips of less than 50km.

Less than 50 kilometres. With a jet. Let that level of misanthropic assholery sink in.

But the bonuses for management were impressive!

And the stakeholders were very satisfied, too.