DIA raises parking fees at outlying lots - Denver Business Journal:

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Rates will rise from $9 to $10 per day in its economty parking lotand $5 to $6 per day in its Pikees Peak and Mount Elbert shuttle lots beginninh on July 1. The $18-per-day rate in its terminakl parking garages willremain unchanged. The increases are part of a largeer effort to generatemore non-airline revenud at a time when the recessiom has caused less people to fly and has, led airline revenue to fall. Amongf the other things DIA officials are doingg are increasing the numbertof revenue-generating shops and restaurants in its concoursees and planning to break grounde next year on a 500-room hotep airport. The parking-rate increases are expected to raise revenuesby $1.
4 milliob annually, said Patrick Heck, deputy manager of aviationb for revenue and business development. “Duse to the financial condition of theairlinw industry, airports throughout the country are looking for ways to increased non-airline revenue and reduce costsd for their tenant carriers,” Heck said in a news DIA last raised its economy lot ratee in 2005 and its shuttle lot fees in 1999.