OnMyWay Posted October 24 Author Posted October 24 On 10/16/2024 at 6:06 AM, earthdome said: I will be giving the short term parking a test Sunday when my SIL fly's in from Saudi. How was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnMyWay Posted October 24 Author Posted October 24 October 7th. Plenty of parking for all those short term parkers who want to park very far away and enjoy a long walk. I'm guessing most of these cars parked way out there arrived before the Oct. 1 surprise and have not returned yet. Hope they have plenty of money with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support scott h Posted October 24 Forum Support Posted October 24 18 minutes ago, OnMyWay said: arrived before the Oct If that was filmed on Oct 7. perhaps they are some of those abandoned vehicles that were identified on Oct 17th. Best guess by authorities they were left by those fleeing the country or signed over to cover gambling debts at the nearby casino. Some were said to have been there since 2014 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnMyWay Posted October 24 Author Posted October 24 21 minutes ago, scott h said: If that was filmed on Oct 7. perhaps they are some of those abandoned vehicles that were identified on Oct 17th. I think I read that most of those were in the structure. Amazing that nobody noticed / reported those cars before. Clearing the lot probably helped. Not sure if the system was computerized 10 years ago but it is now. Reminds me of my LAX days. It was fairly common for people to leave rental cars almost anywhere. Running late? Jump out of the rental car at the departure curb and leave the keys in it. Security would call the rental company to come and get it. I even know of friends who have done that and I think they called the rental company to let them know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthdome Posted October 24 Posted October 24 3 hours ago, OnMyWay said: How was it? Pickup was for 9pm Terminal 1. Plenty of parking. Cost 50php. I noticed alot of cars pulled over on the side of the road on the way in waiting to drive in and do a pickup at arrival once they got the call. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnMyWay Posted October 28 Author Posted October 28 October 4th in the structure. Many of the cars left probably parked before the hike in price. Plenty of space now for those thousands of people doing short term parking to pickup friends and relatives. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support scott h Posted October 28 Forum Support Posted October 28 3 hours ago, OnMyWay said: Plenty of space now for those thousands of people doing short term parking to pickup friends and relatives. Good, so their plan worked after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnMyWay Posted October 28 Author Posted October 28 1 hour ago, scott h said: Good, so their plan worked after all. Me thinks that as they are a for-profit business, and they have thousands of unused revenue producing parking spots empty, they will find a way to fill them. They will never fill them at 1200 per day, so, maybe they will wise up and introduce a new plan to attract legitimate airport parkers while penalizing non-airport parkers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support scott h Posted October 28 Forum Support Posted October 28 9 hours ago, OnMyWay said: Me thinks that as they are a for-profit business, Now on that point, you will get no argument from me on! 9 hours ago, OnMyWay said: They will never fill them at 1200 per day I do not believe the intent is to "fill" them. The intent (I believe) is to reduce the number of cars circling the arrival level or parked (with emergency flashers on ) on the access roads leading to the airport, waiting to pick up a passenger and having them park, walk and meet them at the gate. So, it depends on the business model AND public relations. On 10/1/2024 at 7:33 AM, OnMyWay said: We parked for 9 nights last June, for p2835 Do they lose 1 customer (pick your number) at p2835 and hope that 56.7 extra customers park during those 9 days to make up the difference while reducing the traffic congestion at the airport and the city roads near the airport? I am here to tell you this policy is wildly popular with the average Juan here in the metro. I will be perfectly blunt Brother, as a for profit business, do you think they would rather piss off a few customers in the hinterlands or the millions of customers in "Imperial Manila"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum Support Mike J Posted October 28 Forum Support Posted October 28 59 minutes ago, scott h said: Do they lose 1 customer (pick your number) at p2835 and hope that 56.7 extra customers park during those 9 days to make up the difference My guess is that the accountant types did run the numbers prior to the increase. The number of short term parkers will increase as people find it easier and more convenient now that open slots are available. They could scare off 3 of 4 overnight parkers and still make close to the same overnight revenue while opening up a butt load of short term parking that was not available. I expect their overall parking revenue will increase substantially, especially in the long term, but I could be wrong. There goal seemed to be to get rid of those folks using parking who were not flying and it appears to be working. Parking revenue will (probably) increase and open slots will (already) increase. For every 100 overnight parkers/slots Old rate - 100 x 315 = 31,500 revenue (zero short term slots parking available) New rate - 25 x 1200 = 30,000 revenue (75 short term parking slots available) 30 of those 75 slots need to be used for short term (2 hours or less) during 24 hours for parking revenue to be flat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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