ASHEVILLE – Travelling to see the in-laws, occurring a enterprise journey simply earlier than Thanksgiving, or stunning household for Christmas? You will have new choices for parking on the Asheville Regional Airport.
In a 12 months of milestones, the Asheville Regional Airport will quickly open Shuttle Lot South, a brand new 600 house parking zone served by airport shuttles simply in time for the vacation season.
Shuttle Lot South will open earlier than Thanksgiving, in response to airport spokesperson Tina Kinsey. The lot is positioned simply subsequent to the Marathon fuel station off of Terminal Drive and throughout from the Western North Carolina Agricultural Middle. Drivers can enter the lot by way of Rental Automobile Drive.
A lot of the areas will open later this month, with “near 600” opening in the course of the vacation season, Kinsey mentioned. Extra work on the lot will likely be completed in the course of the first quarter of 2024, in response to an Oct. 31 information launch from the Asheville Regional Airport.
The airport expects the brand new shuttle lot to ease visitors in the course of the vacation season, Kinsey mentioned.
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Parking choices?
Parking choices range for the Asheville Airport, and, relying in case you are selecting somebody up or getting on a flight, listed here are your choices:
- The Every day Lot is accessible straight subsequent to the terminal, together with a 1,305-space parking deck.
- An Hourly Lot is accessible for these visiting the airport and is adjoining to the airport terminal.
- Two shuttle tons will likely be out there for parking. One is off Airport Park Highway, whereas the brand new shuttle lot will likely be out there off of Rental Automobile Drive.
- If you’re parking at a shuttle lot, arrive early. The common shuttle wait time is 10-20 minutes, and the airport recommends arriving two hours early, Kinsey mentioned.
- For any journey over 30 days, you should name 828-209-2125 to make preparations to go away your automotive.
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What if parking in the primary tons runs out?
If parking in main tons runs out, guests will likely be directed to park at Heaps A, B or C, which requires cellular cost, in response to the Asheville Regional Airport web site.
How a lot does parking value for a vacation journey?
- All parking on the airport begins at an ordinary fee of $2 for the primary hour and $2 for each extra hour.
- Parking for over 4 hours will value a flat $12 for day by day or shuttle tons and $15 for the parking storage.
- Shuttle and day by day tons will run a most of $72, with the seventh day free.
- The parking storage will value $90 for every week of parking, with the seventh day free.
- All tons are bank card solely.
Seeking to decide somebody up?
The Asheville Regional Airport additionally supplies a “Cell Cellphone Lot,” which permits those that are selecting up passengers to attend for his or her passenger to reach with out paying to park in one among their main tons. You need to stay in your automobile when you are parked within the Cell Cellphone Lot.
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What is going to the long run airport appear to be?
With a $400 million terminal enlargement underway, the Asheville Regional Airport isn’t trying to decelerate.
Final week, the airport held a public open home on the proposed 10-year grasp plan, displaying a map of proposed new parking, concourse expansions and visitors options.
A brand new grasp plan is created each 10 years, with the final being offered in 2013. Through the open home, consultants displayed projections that almost 1.45 million folks will enplane — that means depart — from the airport yearly by 2041.
In whole, 717,140 passengers have enplaned from the Asheville Regional Airport by way of August of this 12 months, in response to month-to-month visitors reviews from the Asheville Regional Airport. The airport served over 1.8 million passengers in 2022, making it the third busiest airport in North Carolina.
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As for parking, the airport is aiming so as to add over 3,000 new areas by 2041, with an alternate plan suggesting an extra plan including round 1,500 extra areas by the identical time, in response to the offered grasp plan land use alternate options.
Two plans for enlargement had been displayed in the course of the assembly, one suggesting two bigger parking decks to accommodate future visitors whereas one other suggests three 1,800 lot parking decks. Extra grasp plan modifications embrace slowly increasing the primary concourse over the following 20 years, including 5 new gates by 2041.
The grasp plan isn’t set in stone and “helps information long-range selections over time, primarily based on progress forecasts,” Kinsey mentioned.
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Will Hofmann is the Progress and Improvement Reporter for the Asheville Citizen Occasions, a part of the USA Right now Community. Obtained a tip? E-mail him at[email protected].
