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March 15, 2006
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Look for the Parking Cents shuttles at IAH.
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If finding the city’s economy parking lot at Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) has ever been a problem for you, a couple of pink pigs are hoping to make that a thing of the past. With a recently-unveiled new look and the same great value for on-airport parking, the city’s economy lot is now known as Parking Cents.
The on-airport value lot’s shuttle fleet, which is the largest at IAH, is already operating at Houston’s international airport. Each vehicle displays a pink piggy bank and a couple of cents on either side of the shuttle. |
Pictures of the same pink pig on airport signage direct passengers on how to get to the Parking Cents value lot.
“Making our on-airport value parking lot more visible to the public is a matter of customer service,” said Rick Vacar, director of the Houston Airport System (HAS), “and is also an extension of our commitment to making the travel experience at IAH the most efficient and enjoyable one possible.”
Parking Cents, however, is not the only ground transportation amenity offered at Bush Intercontinental that passengers enjoy. Parking rates across the airport system were recently standardized to an all-time low - $1 for the first hour and a half at any of the airports’ terminal parking garages – and two new cell phone lots at IAH offer convenient and free parking for passenger pickups.
Users of the pink pig-decorated lot, which is located at the intersection of John F Kennedy Blvd and Greens Rd, pay $6 per day to park their vehicles on the airport value lot and travel by shuttle to and from the terminal of their departure or arrival. If the value lot is used for less than an hour and a half only $2 are charged to the user.
Other customer-friendly services recently launched by HAS include a new interactive website and a mobile Flight Information Display Screen (FIDS) service.
The new website, www.fly2houston.com offers online flight information, interactive maps that guide users on how to get in and around the airports, the latest HAS and industry news and access to a downloadable mobile FIDS service. This service provides accurate flight information via Blackberrys and cellular phones to passengers that sign up for it.
So far, proactive initiatives such as these have yielded unprecedented successes to the sixth largest airport system in the world. In 2005, four million more passengers traveled through HAS that they did in 2004. This growth in passenger traffic brought the volume of travelers at HAS to a record high, 48 million passengers.
To support this significant increase and the promising forecasts of future expansions, the airport system has already introduced a new master plan. Among the projects to be completed under this new master plan are a new perishables cooling facility – scheduled to open this summer – and two new runways at IAH.
Conservative estimates indicate that by the year 2025 more than 80 million passengers will be using the Houston Airport System.
“Houston is a dynamic city and a crucial player in the global economy,” said Vacar. “It is the ideal location for international business ventures and combined with our airport system will only continue to strengthen in the future.”
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