Top UK airport plans car park fees hike in blow to | Tech News

One of the UK’s hottest airports might quickly hike car park fees as half of an formidable plan to secure a second runway. Gatwick Airport bosses haven’t ruled out rising car park drop-off fees and parking tariffs to pressure people to use the trains.

The transfer comes as half of a bid to secure planning permission to construct a second runway on the website. Gatwick believes a second runway would add an additional 100,000 flights per yr and will nearly double the airport’s capability to 75m passengers. The Planning Inspectorate has beforehand stated Gatwick should be certain that at the least 54% of travellers use public transport to get the inexperienced gentle for a second runway.

However, the choice is probably going to be unpopular amongst holidaymakers who may very well be compelled to splash out to head overseas.

Stewart Wingate, chief govt of Gatwick Airport, pressured car park fees had been in the highlight as bosses had no control over how many people used the trains.

Stewart stated: “We’d be making an attempt to affect people who had been making that marginal resolution of ‘should I drive and drop off or use the car parks, or should I use the rail services?

“The forecourt drop-off charge is the mechanism we can use. We could start to increase that drop-off charge. If we adjust that upwards we would also make changes to the car parking tariffs as well.”

Any higher increases could make Gatwick Airport London’s costliest airport for parking fees. 

Heathrow Airport prices street customers £6 to stop with Stansted’s drop-off fees presently costing £7.

Stewart added: “We’re trying to give the Government a pragmatic, sensible and rational pathway which achieves the objective of reduced road congestion and allows them to support the runway.”