In message , at 20:26:33 on Mon, 1 Dec
2014, Michael R N Dolbear remarked:
A taxi can also be cheaper than a week's parking at many airports.

You usually have to be living fairly close to the airport (and
certainly around its nominal names town or city) for that to be the
case. I live over 70m from Heathrow. There is no way that a taxi (both
ways) can compete with parking at the airport. At least, not just in cost.

There's obviously going to be a break-even point, although 140m in a car
is going to cost £30 on top of the parking, just counting marginal
costs.

I looked up long stay parking at Heathrow just now, and it's £145 a
week, with an "offer" of £77 at the moment.

When I used to fly from Birmingham it was 50m each way and a taxi was
cheaper than a week in their mid-stay car park. And of course the car
was available for other people to use at home, while I was away. The
other solution is for them to give you a lift to the airport, if they
have the odd three hours to spare, twice.

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Roland Perry