Parking Oxford Airport::

[Bergkamp10]

A warning from a good friend and a situation that occuered to our crew last week as well. This this legal at all?

I just want to offer some advice which happened to me at Oxford airport recently.

As not being based here, i went through security with my ID and was told where to park by security and the company i was doing some flying with.

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Today 2 weeks on, i have been hit with a £150-00 parking fine that has just dropped through the letterbox. Apparently i was 16 minutes over my free two hours.

I have called the airport manger who states there is nothing that can be done its out of the airports hands. he said there are signs about but i never saw any and to be honest i wasn't looking for any, i have never been charged to park a car airside before.

So if your going there to do freelance or visit, please be careful, or if you are thinking of basing an aircraft there, seriously think twice about it, imaging if that was one of your passenger's.

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Any advice or comments against these people?

[VIKING9]

Talk to James Dillon-Godfrey and if you get nowhere, speak to the newspapers :ok:

[HS-125]

Is it a council ticket?

If not, just ignore it - they can't do anything at all.

[First.officer]

Had a parking ticket there earlier this year.....although slightly different for me in as much as the car i was using was a rental car, and i did try to 'phone the number at 5 a.m. to pay, oddly the line didn't work, hence couldn't pay, and had to go off on a few days flying and leave the car parked without paying !.

First i new of the parking fine was when the car rental company sent me a letter advising of the £150 penalty (reduced to £75 if paid within 14 days), along with their "admin" charge of approx. £36. I was slightly irritated, and drafted a quick letter off to the company concerned about the circumstances leading to the fine of £150, and in fairness they then invalidated the fine. Took a little while longer to get back the £36 admin. fee from the car rental company mind !! lol.

Might be worth a letter in summary to the company concerned ? oh, think the company concerned use ANPR to issue fines to cars parked in contravention...not sure what time period they use as a "cut off" to issue offending cars ?

[Poltergeist]

seems to be a growing trend, I posted a thread a few weeks ago about being clamped at Shoreham for overstaying by a few mins. :sad:

[The Grim EPR]

As I understand it, unless the ticket is issued by a council officer of some sort, a traffic warden or the police, then the contract is between the car park operator and the driver (not the registered keeper) of the vehicle.

So, when the letter arrives at the registered keeper's address, either don't respond at all, or reply saying that you are unaware of who the driver was at the time. This excuse doesn't work with the police (speeding fines etc), but should work in this case.

[FrankR]

Be careful here gents. I was faced with a similar situation last time I was driving through Maidstone. Remember that with a rental ride, you sign to pay all charges. When I erroneously got nicked for parking too long in a spot, the traffic authority sent the bill to the rental company, who in turn added fifty (!) and charged my card.

I went round and round with the traffic company, and they admitted to their error and gave me a refund, but the rental car co was unrelenting, the charge stuck!!!

A friend told me that in the future, he would cancel a credit card if he ever got wind of bogus charges that were inbound, and put the onus on them to squeeze harder to collect.

- Rubbish, all of it! I'd rather be in France!!

FR

[Gentle Climb]

I visit Oxford reasonably frequently. The organisation that I am seeing ask for my behicle details and inform the car park operator. I have never had an issue. It might be worth speaking to the company that you wee flying for.

[ITFC1]

I got one of those in July 2010, is it City Enforcement Ltd.

I ignored all letters, fine!! went up to £238-00, i ignored all letters, and nothing.

Just google CEL or who ever they call themselve's now, just ignore.

You will get brightly coloured letters come through, but don't worry.

[READY MESSAGE]

A guy I was flying with had the same thing at Oxford, one phone call to the airport 'management' and he never heard anything more about it. Take it up with whoever you were flying for and get them to take it up with the airport. They are rather anal about the parking at Oxford these days.

[x933]

Parking is the one thing that ruins Oxford airport - though the parking gestapo only visit once every 1-3 months or so. Far be it for me to suggest that the airport owners are on a kick back...

The company is Parking Control Services - i've had one or two tickets and have never paid them and so far have not had any issues. Usual disclamers, your mileage may vary, etc.