Here’s how to get discount parking at Wichita Eisenhower Airport for holiday travel
Going home for the holidays could be a little bit cheaper this year at Wichita Eisenhower National Airport.
The airport is offering 25 percent off parking at the park and ride lot now through Jan. 4.
The regular price has been discounted from $8 to $6 a day for all airport patrons using the remote lot, with its no-extra-charge shuttle service, said Brad Christopher, assistant airport director.
“It’s something we just wanted to do,” Christopher said. “It’s kind of a ‘thank you’ (customer) recognition.”
Christopher said the airport is also trying to get more people to use park and ride and save money.
“It’s kind of like a coupon to a restaurant,” he said. “Once you try it out, then we hope you’ll like it and we hope you’ll come back.”
Even at regular rates, park and ride is the cheapest way to park at the airport.
Parking in the garage is $16 a day and the economy surface lot is $11. Parking in the short-term lot can cost $20 a day.
Christopher said people who don’t travel frequently may not be aware of the cheaper parking.
“The park and ride lot is primarily a local leisure traveler type thing, more so than your business traveler,” Christopher said. “That was the group we certainly wanted to target.”
To get to the park and ride lot from the main airport entrance off Kellogg: go south on Eisenhower Airport Parkway. Exit to the right at the off-ramp labeled “General Aviation, Air Cargo,” then take the first right onto Crossfield Road.
The airport also recently introduced a smartphone app that lets park and ride users track where the shuttle is at any given time.
Instructions for downloading the app by scanning a QR code are posted in the park and ride lot, Christopher said.
