Originally Posted by
LAX_LHR
Is the lack of parking spaces newsworthy, especially on TV, that's the question.
Plenty of other places (not talking just airports here) run out of spaces, but they dont feature on the news.
It's not a great situation to be greeted with, and maybe a few days warning could have been given if possible (EI, on social media highlight that car parks are close to capacity so may want to find other means to get to the airport.)
Also, wasn't aware there were that many people turning up on the day to park, I thought it was a thing most people would pre book?
It becomes newsworthy because keyboard warriors post stuff on the usual social media sites and lazy journalists pick it up. It makes their job dead easy because all they have to do its take screen shots of the various postings and make mountains out of molehills!
I never used to pre-book car parking, until airports, particularly MAG airports, made it prohibitively expensive to turn up and park. Now, unless you're made of money and can afford the business / express or whatever other fancy marketing name airports use, you have little choice but to pre-book.