When you have decided to travel by plane, you will want to quickly book airline tickets 'while they are still cheap'. In your haste, don't forget to check which airport you are departing and landing from. You won't be the first to stand at Schiphol while your plane departs from Eindhoven Airport. Your choice of an airport can also depend on the parking costs, if you want to go there by car. Especially when you fly from Schiphol.
The website Vliegveldinfo.nl conducted research into parking costs at sixteen airports in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. The parking rate in the May and summer holiday periods of 2024 was examined. The research shows that Schiphol is proudly the leader when it comes to the highest costs for parking.
Record parking turnover for Schiphol
Schiphol had a record turnover in terms of parking income in 2023. An average of 330,000 euros was collected per day, bringing the total per year to 120.3 million euros. The largest airport in the Netherlands appears to be doing this again in 2024. The costs for three days of parking at the weekend during the May or summer holidays have increased by twenty euros. You pay now 92.50 euros parking for three days.
Parking costs also went up at most other airports, which means you get an average price 54 euros you have lost parking for a weekend. For eight days of parking during the holidays, the average cost is 82 euros, but at Schiphol it is 121 euros. This makes Amsterdam airport not the most expensive: Antwerp Airport charges 132 euros for a week of parking. And no, your car will not be washed for that. And yes, that's probably in a parking lot 5,000 miles away.
Four airports (Cologne / Bonn Airport, Antwerp Airport, Liège Airport, Ostend Bruges Airport) did not change prices compared to 2023, and at two airports the price even went down. At Belgian Charleroi Airport you paid 50 euros for a weekend and 43 euros this year. Parking at Rotterdam The Hague Airport went from 71.25 euros to 55.50 euros. See here how much more expensive parking is at Schiphol than at other airports.
Costs for three days* parking at Schiphol and alternatives
Airport | Spring 2024 | Spring 2023 | Difference | Difference Schiphol | |
Average | 54.10 euros | 50.40 euros | + 3.70 euros | + 38.30 euros | |
1. | Amsterdam Airport Schiphol | 92.50 euros | 72.50 euros | + 20.00 euros | – |
2. | Cologne Bonn Airport | 77 euros | 77 euros | 0 euros | + 15.50 euros |
3. | Dusseldorf Airport | 70 euros | 65 euros | +5 euros | + 22.50 euros |
4. | Bremen Airport | 62.70 euros | 52.30 euros | + 11.40 euros | + 29.80 euros |
5. | Brussels Airport | 59.50 euros | 53 euros | + 6.50 euros | +33 euros |
6. | Eindhoven Airport | 57.92 euros | 48.40 euros | + 9.52 euros | + 34.58 euros |
7. | Maastricht Aachen Airport | 57.80 euros | 40 euros | + 17.80 euros | + 34.70 euros |
8. | Rotterdam The Hague Airport | 55.50 euros | 71.25 euros | – 15.75 euros | +37 euros |
9. | Dortmund Airport | 54 euros | 50 euros | + 4 euros | + 38.20 euros |
10. | Antwerp Airport | 49.50 euros | 49.50 euros | 0 euros | + 43 euros |
11. | Weeze Airport | 48 euros | 46.50 | + 1.50 euros | + 44.50 euros |
12. | Liège Airport | 45 euros | 45 euros | 0 euros | + 47.50 euros |
13. | Charleroi Airport | 43 euros | 50 euros | – 7 euros | + 49.50 euros |
14. | Münster Osnabrück Airport | 38 euros | 37 euros | + 1 euro | + 54.50 euros |
15. | Ostend Bruges Airport | 31.50 euros | 31.50 euros | 0 euros | +61 euros |
16. | Groningen Airport Eelde | 24 euros | 18 euros | +6 euros | + 68.50 euros |
* including the weekend
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