www.JustParking.co.uk: As they say; "One man's meat is another man's poison" and that couldn't be better illustrated by this particular rant on the Lurking On The Web blog, about the price of Luton Airport Parking:
Well, I have to start somewhere so I thought I'd start with a moan...
Have you seen the amount it costs to park in the Short Stay car park at Luton Airport? I was there to pick up my Girlfriend flying in from Ireland an hour after I arrived at the car park. £6.50 for 1 hour!!!!! £10 for 2 hours!!!! You don't have to pay that much to park in Central London.
That set me in a bad mood, and from then until my Girlfriend arrived I tried to get some answers as to why they considered this justified. Imagine if the plane you are waiting for is delayed for some reason. The airline isn't going to care that they just cost you another £10 for parking just because their plane was late, so in effect, Luton airport (or NCP as it is their car park) are cashing in big time.
I spoke to the desk where you go to pay for your ticket, and they said it was NCP that set the charges, and they agreed that the prices were too high, and almost begged me to take the matter further, including going to the papers. All I got for NCP was an email address (which I shall be writing to shortly). I then asked to speak to a manager for Luton Airport. Instead, one of his staff came down to me as "the manager won't come down to speak to you about parking". He gave me an address to write to in Luton Airport to complain, but he said "I doubt you'll get anywhere, the airport has to make its money somewhere and they don't make much from the planes"
He explained the flight arrival times are available on teletext and on the internet, but sometimes I have to leave home to get to the airport before my girlfriends flight has actually taken off, and Ryanair in particular, (but other airlines too) are terrible to notify the passengers of a delay, until the very last minute. (and sometimes not even then).
He also said there was about 1000 spaces, and most of the time its around 75% full. If you imagine the average stay of 1 hour, thats £4875 per hour NCP makes from that short stay car park!! Flights come into and leave Luton airport from 7am to 2am! Thats potentially £92625 per day!!! Is this really justified?
Somewhere along the line, someone is sitting back and laughing their head off about the money they are making. For people waiting to collect someone from an inbound flight, the charge is unavoidable because of security measures, there is no waiting near the terminal, so you have to park up in the Short Stay.
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