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ALB Airport Parking Overview

As the state of New York’s capital city’s airport, the Albany International Airport is a fairly underused airport. Regardless, it sees a traffic of about 1,500,000 people flying out of Albany every year. Needless to say, the Albany Airport parking needs to accommodate thousands of vehicles everyday. This article will guide you to the best parking facilities available in and around ALB so that you can plan your commute accordingly.

Depending on your particular needs, you can choose from several Albany Airport parking options. Are you coming to the airport simply to drop off a friend, or are you going on a few days’ journey yourself and therefore need to use the overnight parking facility? Do you want a personalized cleaning and detailing service for your car in an off-site parking lot or would you rather avail economy parking on-site? In any case, you do not need to worry about handicap parking or arrangements for electric vehicle charging as you can find these easily both in the on-site and off-site parking lots.

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During normal operations, ALB airport offers five different parking options with designated parking spaces and respective parking fees. For travelers flying to another city for several days, the Albany Airport long-term parking offers a convenient parking facility. This comprises three parking lots, one on each end of the terminal (east and west) and one behind the north parking garage. However, two of these (east and west ALB parking lots) do not allow payment methods besides credit cards or EZ-Pass Plus, which may cause inconvenience to travelers who want to pay parking fees in cash.

Besides the long-term lots, ALB airport also has a short-term parking area, which is the ideal choice for those dropping friends or family off at the airport or simply visiting to greet a passenger in transit. This option allows car owners to park their vehicles for up to half an hour with no charge. If, however, a vehicle is parked for a longer period, the cumulative hourly parking charges may build up to greater than the daily rate of the other parking options. This parking lot is located very near to the terminal, in the entire first level of the north parking garage and in a signed area behind the parking garage.

The north and (newly constructed) south parking garages are the third option that flyers and other visitors to the ALB airport can utilize. These enclosed spaces provide a convenient option for accessible parking at an affordable daily rate. Owners of electric vehicles can also use electric vehicle charging stations located in the garage parking lots.

The fourth and fifth public parking facilities offered by Albany Airport are valet parking and economy E-lot respectively. In the first option, when available, passengers can simply hand their vehicles to a valet attendant and notify them of the time they expect to receive their vehicles from the same spot at the end of a trip. In the second option, passengers can park their vehicles at the E-lot and use shuttle buses (which, when operative, run 24 hours a day) to get to the airport. Normally, this is the cheapest Albany Airport parking option available. However, due to COVID-19, both valet parking and economy E-lot parking facilities (together with the buses) have been suspended. As compensation, the daily parking rates of the other visitor parking lots have been significantly reduced to keep the option for economy parking available.

All of the parking facilities at ALB Airport have reserved parking spots for persons with disabilities and handicaps. The vehicles parked at these designated handicapped accessible parking spaces need to have a disabled person plate, a disabled veteran plate, or a disabled parking placard.

In addition to the options listed above, passengers can also make use of services like Albany Park Ride Fly, which offers an off-site private ALB Airport parking option as well as services like shuttle buses, pick and drop from curbside to curbside, luggage assistance, as well as car services including cleaning, detailing, tyre change, jump-starting batteries and warming during winter. Passengers may also check into one of several hotels a night before their flight and be entitled to a free parking spot at the hotel until their return. With the availability of luxurious facilities at these hotels, which are situated right across the terminal and which also offer free shuttle services to and from the airport, this option is increasingly becoming a popular choice among flyers.