This also results in a relatively large number of IT consulting companies, many of which specialize in public sector service bidding. Certain large consultancies winning most of the bids and then under-delivering has pretty much become a meme at this point.
Downloadable airport data on OpenFlights tends to be quite dated, missing notably e.g. the Berlin Brandenburg Airport. OurAirports (https://ourairports.com/) has a slightly different format but the data there is significantly more recent.
source: started with OpenFlights but had to switch to OurAirports for my project https://flightnotebook.com
Interesting observation. I wonder if the number of upvotes depends more on the quality of the article or the quality of comments. I have to admit that even here, I personally didn't even open the article but rather went straight to the comments.