Taking a trip this summer? It might be cheaper to get a rideshare to the airport.
The Salt Lake City International Airport will hike parking rates starting July 1, Chief Financial Officer Shaun Anderson said during a City Council meeting last month. Garage parking will go from $40 to $45 per day, while parking in the airport’s economy lot will increase from $12 to $14 a day, Anderson said.
Parking is the airport’s largest source of concession revenue, and the fee hike is expected to bring in more than $5 million a year, according to Anderson’s presentation.
“People continue to use our parking garage, our economy lot… very heavily,” Anderson said. “... The garage is closed almost every week in the middle of the week due to business travel and people using that source.”
The Salt Lake City Council gave the airport authority to raise garage parking fees to $45 when it saw fit, Anderson said, and now is that time. The economy lot fee will also increase to be more in line with other parking lots near the airport, he added.
Jordan is a breaking news reporter at The Tribune. She graduated from the University of Oklahoma and has written for the Houston Chronicle along with the Enid News & Eagle. When she's not reporting, she loves watching football, reading books and painting.