Bye Bye Employee Lot
 

FLL people:

Looks like it's the old economy lot for us May 1.

No more discount parking at Fort Lauderdale airport - Sun Sentinel

The 4,000-space economy lot sits in the 2300 block of Southwest 42nd Street. Travelers pay $7.50 per day and take a shuttle to the terminal about a mile away.

When the lot closes, they will be directed to 3,100 spots in the Cypress parking garage, across from Terminal 1. The price there: $15 per day.

Travelers who leave town before April 19 will have until April 30 to move their vehicles out of the lot. They won’t be allowed into the economy lot if they are returning after April 30.

Airport employees who previously parked in the Cypress garage will use the economy lot beginning May 1.

Back to where it used to be.

Good luck covering turns

Hope it is not as bad as having to park at airlines parking for DTW crews. Nothing is worse then finishing a trip and having to ride around in a short yellow bus for 30 minutes over and over again. Why can't we get some priority with respect to dropping off? I say we implement a new tipping strategy: 2 bucks for first drop off, 1 for the middle and zero for last. Although out of principle I don't like having to tip to go to work but I do anyway.

I'm quite sure there's no tipping on the bus at FLL.

Also, wondering if the employee bus will stop at each terminal or if they'll have a scheme like they have now, one bus that goes to terminal 1 and 3 and one that goes to 2 and 4.

Gotta pay for all those crosswalk guards they've now employed at FLL.

Depending on which direction you drive from this could add up to 45min to the commute. What a poop storm. Sick calls are going to ratchet up is my guess.

Just the drive from the lot in the bus is going to add at least 30 minutes.

I think you're going to see a lot more late shows that's for sure. Talking to one of the airport employees, I heard the airport is trying to limit Uber access too.

Depending on how far you live it may be worth the cost of just taking an uber or lyft from home to the airport and get dropped off at the front door just to avoid the whole nightmare. Even better if a family member can drop you off.

For guys who are based in other bases, with employee shuttles, this is funny to read. DFW is 30 minutes from the lot to the terminal. And this doesn't count the 15 minutes it takes to get to the lot in the south of the airport, when you enter from the south of the airport.

Welcome to the real world of airport employee life, no better than the kid working at terminal Starbucks.

Then I'd have to tell them I work for spirit