AUS Parking
 

CBA 5.G

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“where otherwise allowed by the local parking authority”. Apparently AUS doesn’t allow it anymore. The kid frying chicken at the Fly-Rite gets a spot, no questions asked. The guys trying to get to work flying the planes that the airport was built for…nah.

Well then, maybe you should apply for a part time job frying chicken at the Fly-Rite

Problem solved!

The kid works there every day, and also makes 10 to 20 times less than you so….

Is the airport there to sell chicken sandwiches or to transport people and goods on planes? And you are correct, they know they can flip pilots the bird because we have much more invested than the kid flipping burgers. Guessing you have a place to park?

You understand that the majority of FLL pays the daily rate in the garage bc the employee parking is an absolute shiit show.

You have a place to park. It’s called the long term lot.

So you also have a place to park?

The Capital Metro's Route 20 (Manor Road/Riverside) and the MetroAirport Flyer are the primary city bus options for getting to and from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS). Route 20 runs frequently, with service every 15 minutes, 7 days a week. The MetroAirport Flyer is a faster, more direct option, with service every 20 minutes and stops in downtown and at the University of Texas.

There you go, now you have options. You asked, APC answered, let it die.

Hilarious that everyone talks trash…who also has a place to park 😂. Not sure what else I was expecting from APC. Thought maybe someone might provide something useful. Why start today?

Why not buy a Cirrus SR22 and a hanger at the airport and park your car in your hanger for free. Ever thought about that?

Im confused what the problem is. Are you saying that AUS has no parking available? You don’t work there. You fly in and out as a passenger. Where do the passengers park? Just pay it or take an Uber and move on with your life.

Most solid advice I’ve received so far…

Do you have parking at the airport?

I have yet to see an airport that doesn’t offer parking.

Whats this hang up on employee parking. Employee parking at most airports is generally a major PIA and not worth the time and effort.

Airport employee parking companies also exist to make your life harder and more irritating. The sooner you accept that the sooner you will move on

The blue garage looks quite convenient and not overly expensive compared to other airports. The economy lot doesn’t look very far and is downright cheap these days

I understand most employee parking is inconvenient and many pilots make enough money to pay for convenience…but they still have parking. What do regional FAs do who don’t make much money? I’m not comparing my situation to them, I’m just curious…

That’s not your problem. They get dropped off curb side or Uber or move to a base.

You need to come to grips with the fact that you don’t work in AUS

Do you have parking at the airport? We both know why you’re not answering that question.

If I want to jump through endless hoops every year with forms and registrations and getting letters of permission for a car I drive everyday but is not in my name, then yes. If I choose not to jump through all those hoops, no. I choose no.

I live in a base and our CBA requires it. What our CBA doesn’t say is where that parking is located. You can argue that in some airports, particularly FLL, the employee parking is not actually at the airport. It’s in fact no where near the airport.

I commuted for many years of my career and never had employee parking available as a commuter bc I did not work at that airport

If you want to drive your car to any of our bases you will be provided your requested crappy parking. AUS is between two of them. Better get moving

You don’t work at the airport either, yet you are provided with parking. How can that be? Everyone is making that argument, while they have parking, at an airport where they don’t work 😂.

You read my mind…same with IAH. Of course I’ll figure it out and let it go, but then what’s the point of a forum? Was hoping someone would chime in with the least inconvenient option outside of just paying the daily rate. That’s what I’ll do for now. Life is hard.

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You asked and obviously did not get the answer you wanted and started to complain about your perceived injustice of the airport not offering your employee parking when you are not an employee there and your airline has zero pilots employed there.

This is part of commuting. It’s a huge inconvenience, cost, time suck, and lost earning potential.

The current state of our airline and the slowing of the industry at large is starting to manifest as frustration in many pilots, but especially pilots that only saw good times from the day they took their first lesson to the day they got their first airline job making six figures. That timeline being periods of months sometimes instead of the decades it was in the past. There are many things we cannot control once you make it to the show. Starting your own business is really the only way for you to control your own destiney.

It is an injustice! The crew who operate the aircraft at that airport don’t have a place to park. And they don’t have a place to park because the city knows that pilots have so much invested into their careers, that they will pay to park elsewhere. And everyone’s argument is that I don’t work at the airport…neither do you, yet you have parking! Or that employee parking is inconvenient, and you choose not to use it, so therefore, obviously I shouldn’t have parking at all 😂😂😂

Incorrect. You do not report for duty in AUS and pilots that park in their domicile are reporting for duty and therefore work there. Pilots that commute from one Spirit domicile to another are provided a parking accommodation through the negotiated CBA. You do not meet either of those.

You were being provided employee parking at a cost as a courtesy by whoever governs parking at AUS. They have decided to not extend that courtesy any longer to a passenger that happens to be a pilot based elsewhere, and Spirit is not required to accommodate you as it was not negotiated under section 5 of the CBA.

It’s not an injustice, it’s an inconvenience, and you have to live with it unless Spirit opens a domicile in AUS, you choose to drive to a domicile, or the parking authority in AUS changes their policy.

SMH…the mental gymnastics you have to pull to make the case that you or someone who lives at a DIFFERENT domicile are an airport employee, and I am not, is astonishing. I understand what the CBA says. I never claimed that Spirit owes me a parking spot in AUS…it’s a completely different conversation.

Someone that lives in a different domicile is NOT an airport employee of that airport. However, those pilots are required to be accommodated per the CBA.

This wouldn’t be a Miata that you’re trying to park?