It's quite reasonably priced too (for airport parking), about £80 a week booking for September today. I paid that for short stay parking at Stansted earlier this summer.

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tehwebguy 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Wow, who is subsidizing it?

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throw2ih020 4 hours ago | parent [-]

London Gatwick is outside of London, so I assume land costs are low enough that a multi-story car park isn't too expensive.

	▲	0x3f 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Most 'London' airports are outside of London and they still charge a ton for parking. Captive audience. This one is unusually cheap, even for Gatwick.
	▲	7952 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Most of the long term parking is surface rather than multi storey.
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sixQuarks 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That is pretty good pricing. I’m surprised. I wonder if this is just introductory pricing. It seems like there’s not much throughput for something like this. I can’t see how this could handle a constant stream of people wanting to park their cars.

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michaelt 3 hours ago | parent [-]

> It seems like there’s not much throughput for something like this. I can’t see how this could handle a constant stream of people wanting to park their cars.

Assume your car park is a grid of cars, 20 cars wide and 20 cars long, i.e. 400 parking spaces.

You make the entire first row drop-off/pick up points. With 20 pick up/drop off points you can have a lot of people dropping off or picking up at the same time. And you know pretty well when people will be picking up their cars, as you know their flight arrival details.

Assume your average airport parking customer parks for 5 days, that's 80 arrivals and 80 departures per day. Each of your 20 pick-up/drop-off points only needs to handle 4 pick-ups and 4 drop-offs per day. To me that sounds feasible.

	▲	sixQuarks 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, in theory, but this assumes a linear demand curve, whereas there may be periods where lots of people come to park at the same time. Most airport parking lots have thousands of spots so you’d need a lot