Look at Some of the UK’s Most Expensive Airport Parking

Short stay airport parking has never been regarded as inexpensive whether your stay is a matter of minutes or a couple of hours, airports have adopted the ethos that less is in fact more where paying for parking is concerned. Currently it is cheaper to park your vehicle for 24hrs than to use the short stay facilities, and nowhere is this more apparent than at Birmingham airport car park.

Research has shown that airport parking at Birmingham is in fact more costly than Heathrow – and given that Heathrow is regarded as the busiest airport in the world why is this so? And given the current economic climate and the approach of the 2012 Olympic games is this a trend that is set to continue?

For example the prices of the airport parking at Heathrow, Manchester and Birmingham at other vendors are as follows:

Short stay Heathrow airport parking is currently £8.00 for 30 mins.
Short stay Manchester airport parking is currently £8.00 for 30 mins.
Short stay Birmingham airport parking is currently £20.00 for 40 mins.

Birmingham charges its customers £10.00 for the first 30mins and £5.00 per 5mins thereafter. Should you be collecting a relative who experiences some delay, their subsequent arrival is a bitter sweet one given the charges that a 15minute delay would incur, but this is an advantage that our airports are happy to take.

These charges are excessive to say the very least, even more so when you consider the deals that comparison sites such as Looking4parking.com have on offer. Currently you can park at Birmingham for 7days from as little as £22.00...which is the equivalent of 42mins in the short stay! Obviously you can pre-book and save money, but given that people continue to take their chance when they get there, our airports are making a killing.

Therefore conclusion that we are being nothing more than “ripped-off” must be drawn as the charges that are being levied on users of the short stay facilities at our airports are extortionate and wholly unjustifiable but unfortunately are likely to continue being the norm rather than the exception.