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Birmingham Airport parking massive increase

For those that are planning to park at Birmingham airport, they seem to have increased their prices by £40, i have been keeping an eye on the prices as i am going away in October, last week the cost for 4 days was £67.99 today its £107.99. (carpark 1) yesterday it was £87.99. not sure why the sudden increase.

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  • TELLIT01
    TELLIT01 Posts: 17,868 Forumite
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    The increase is likely to be based on a combination of current booking level and time before departure date.  I've seen similar in the past when I've been checking prices at Brum.  I have just checked an see the same price as the OP.
  • Think it's booking level as I checked before and it went up when less than 3 months before departure
  • daveyjp
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    Demand pricing in action.
  • Darola
    Darola Posts: 6 Forumite
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    edited 20 May 2022 at 7:12AM
    I travel from BHX regularly. And book generally two or three weeks before I fly, parking has been pretty consistent for years. I travelled a couple of weeks ago and paid £54 for 2 days in CP1. I’ve just booked the same 48hr period for two different trips in June, and the cost now is £98! 70% increase!! I’ve never seen such a one off increase in over 5 years of regular travel (pandemic obviously slowed that down a bit). In 2019 I made 36 return flights out of BHX. So am used to seasonal variations. This increase is absolute robbery!
  • ABARKIE
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    edited 22 May 2022 at 12:16PM

    You could park at the train station at Birmingham International and walk across.

    Circa £12 per day, £6 at weekens

    Alternatively some train stations with a very small journey offer very good daily rates or even free

    Marston Green is an example - £3 per day I think it is
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