How we compile airport parking data
We build one honest record per US commercial airport from U.S. federal public-domain data and a public-domain airport spine — then we tell you exactly where a figure is indicative or generic and must be confirmed on the airport's own page. This page explains how, and what we deliberately do not do.
Who’s behind this site
Airport Parking by Airport is an independent publisher operated by VentureCorp, Inc. We are not an airport authority, a parking operator, a hotel, or a booking agent, and we do not accept payment to change a hub classification, a rate band, or a listing. The site answers one question honestly: what are the parking basics for a given US commercial airport?
Where our data comes from
| Data | Source | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| Airport identity (name, city, state, coordinates, ICAO) | OurAirports airports.csv (public domain) — the in-house JetCharterHub spine snapshot | Every airport record's identity spine |
| US commercial designation, FAA hub size (L/M/S/N), CY2024 enplanements | FAA CY2024 Passenger Enplanements — U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. §105) | The hub size, ranking and 'is this a commercial airport' classification |
| On-airport lot-type categories | Generic categories assigned by FAA hub size (economy/daily/garage/valet/cell/…) — NOT a scraped per-airport inventory | The lot-type pages and the comparison hub |
| Indicative daily-rate bands | Our own coarse tier construction by FAA hub size (Large & Medium hubs only) — explicitly indicative, never a per-lot quote | The daily-rate and parking pages (as caveated bands) |
| Official parking links | Hand-verified links to each airport authority's own public parking page (50 airports); null elsewhere — never machine-generated | The 'official parking page' link on each airport |
Read me first Parking rates here are coarse indicative tier bands by FAA hub size, not per-lot quotes, and they exist only for Large and Medium hubs (Small/Nonhub show "rates vary"). Lot types are generic categories by hub size, not a per-airport-verified inventory. Official parking links are hand-verified for 50 airports only — where we have not verified one, we point you to the airport authority rather than invent a URL. For exact per-lot prices and real lot inventories, a provider feed is required; we deliberately ship the indicative layer plus the official link instead.
How we calculate
Each airport is the FAA's CY2024 commercial-service list (service level Primary or Commercial-Service), joined to its OurAirports identity by IATA and ranked by enplanements. FAA hub size (Large/Medium/Small/Nonhub) drives the generic lot-type categories and the indicative rate band: Large and Medium hubs get the fuller lot set and a coarse daily band; Small and Nonhub airports get neither a band (rates vary) nor a full lot set, by design. Everything is re-pulled when the FAA publishes a new enplanements file (annually).
What we deliberately leave out. We do not publish exact per-lot prices, scraped lot names, or live availability — those require a parking-provider feed we have not wired. We also stay in our lane: this is travel-logistics (parking and wayfinding), not flight-safety, immigration, or money advice, and we rank no parking operators or hotels.
Independence & how we make money
Some links on this site may become affiliate links to airport-parking or park-sleep-fly partners; if you act on one we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. No partner has been approved yet, and a partner will never see or influence a hub classification, a rate band, or which airports we list. No placement is for sale.
Keeping it current
The FAA publishes enplanements annually and the OurAirports spine is stable, so we re-run the full join and review the rate bands yearly. Each page carries its verification date; current verification: June 2026.
Corrections
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