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I always thought BNE parking was expensive, now it's confirmed
This article in this morning's Courier Mail
BRISBANE Airport has the most expensive carparking in the world but there's no abuse of market power.
A Productivity Commission report showed Brisbane Airport's average hourly car parking cost is ahead of Sydney and Melbourne, and double that of the travel capitals Paris, Tokyo and Frankfurt.
On a long-term basis, Brisbane also was in front of the other state capitals at $150 a week, compared with $122 in Sydney, $88 in Perth and $77 in Melbourne.
Despite the high cost of pulling up at the airport, the Productivity Commission and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found there had been substantial investment in car parking and prices reflected the "cost of the service".
In the last year, Brisbane Airport Corporation made an average $6151 for every one of its 9767 parking bays, more than any other facility except for Sydney Airport which has nearly 13,000 parking spots.
Australian Airports Association executive director Caroline Wilkie said it was reasonable to expect airports to seek to make a return on their investments.
"Despite insinuations by the ACCC that airports earning money is somehow inappropriate, the Productivity Commission has found that Australian airports' aeronautical charges, revenues, costs, profits and investment are comparable to overseas airports," Ms Wilkie said.
"Airports must make a return on their investment in order to continue to invest in the necessary infrastructure to meet growing consumer demand."
The ACCC scored Brisbane most highly for quality of service, awarding the airport 3.82 out of five, compared with 3.67 for Adelaide, 3.15 for Sydney, 3.01 for Melbourne and 2.61 for Perth.
Leonie Vandeven from the Brisbane Airport Corporation said the higher parking rates reflected the closer proximity of the long-term car park to the terminal and the fact both the long and short-term car parks were fully covered.
In its submission to the Commission, the BAC also argued its parking charges had not increased as rapidly as those in the CBD where motorists pay as much as $70 for more than three hours of parking.
Ms Vandeven said Brisbane's facilities were the "newest, most state-of-the-art of any airport".
A new "public road" for drop-off and pick-up was now open, primarily for the use of private vehicles, she said.
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This article in this morning's Courier Mail
BRISBANE Airport has the most expensive carparking in the world but there's no abuse of market power.
A Productivity Commission report showed Brisbane Airport's average hourly car parking cost is ahead of Sydney and Melbourne, and double that of the travel capitals Paris, Tokyo and Frankfurt.
On a long-term basis, Brisbane also was in front of the other state capitals at $150 a week, compared with $122 in Sydney, $88 in Perth and $77 in Melbourne.
Despite the high cost of pulling up at the airport, the Productivity Commission and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission found there had been substantial investment in car parking and prices reflected the "cost of the service".
In the last year, Brisbane Airport Corporation made an average $6151 for every one of its 9767 parking bays, more than any other facility except for Sydney Airport which has nearly 13,000 parking spots.
Australian Airports Association executive director Caroline Wilkie said it was reasonable to expect airports to seek to make a return on their investments.
"Despite insinuations by the ACCC that airports earning money is somehow inappropriate, the Productivity Commission has found that Australian airports' aeronautical charges, revenues, costs, profits and investment are comparable to overseas airports," Ms Wilkie said.
"Airports must make a return on their investment in order to continue to invest in the necessary infrastructure to meet growing consumer demand."
The ACCC scored Brisbane most highly for quality of service, awarding the airport 3.82 out of five, compared with 3.67 for Adelaide, 3.15 for Sydney, 3.01 for Melbourne and 2.61 for Perth.
Leonie Vandeven from the Brisbane Airport Corporation said the higher parking rates reflected the closer proximity of the long-term car park to the terminal and the fact both the long and short-term car parks were fully covered.
In its submission to the Commission, the BAC also argued its parking charges had not increased as rapidly as those in the CBD where motorists pay as much as $70 for more than three hours of parking.
Ms Vandeven said Brisbane's facilities were the "newest, most state-of-the-art of any airport".
A new "public road" for drop-off and pick-up was now open, primarily for the use of private vehicles, she said.
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