airport parking in the uk is officially the most expensive in the world five of the airports servicing london   london city, gatwick, heathrow, luton and stansted   and also edinburgh and manchester airports feature in the top ten most expensive airports for parking across the globe, with london city airport topping the leaderboard at £315 per week in many cases that may be more than the total price of the holiday booked london city airport's proximity in the heart of london means the site urges travellers to use public transport if possible   it's worth considering when parking can be as much as £315 per week  how the airports around the world ranked where it came to car parking  even when booked in advance, a week's parking at london city is twice the price of new york's jfk airport   and nearly three times the cost of parking at tokyo international airport, research by justparkcom has discovered parking rip offs are not only suffered by holidaymakers leaving their cars at the airport while travelling abroad those collecting friends and family from airports are also charged extortionate amounts for short term parking, paying £15 for 1 2 hours at london city and £12 at heathrow following london city int he rankings is london heathrow, where it costs an average of £167 a week to park the uk dominance is broken as sydney enters in third spot   parking there for seven days costs around £138 parking at heathrow airport was found to be the second most expensive in the world at £167 per week  anthony eskinazi, founder of justpark, said: 'we've long known that airport parking is overpriced across the country, but all the same these new revelations are remarkable 'finding that seven of the world's ten most expensive airports are here in the uk shows the extent of the problem we are facing' you could enjoy a seven night all inclusive stay at the four star mogan princess & beach club in taurito, gran canaria departing on june 17 price   £271 per person, flights and hotel spend seven nights, all inclusive at the four star elounda residence in greece, flying from gatwick on may 5 price   £224 per person, flights and hotel stay at the five star grand yazici mares hotel in icmeler, turkey, all inclusive, flying out of stansted on april 15 price   £197 per person, flights and hotel spend seven nights, all inclusive at the four star beach albatross, in agadir, morocco, flying from gatwick on april 21 price   £314 per person, flights and hotel he added: 'when people are paying more for their airport parking than their flights, something needs to change we want to redress this balance and make airport parking more affordable' the high cost of airport parking in the uk has led holiday makers to seek alternative, more affordable options over 600,000 drivers use the app and website justpark to find and book parking spaces on local residential driveways, rather than paying airport prices more than 200 heathrow homeowners are renting out their driveways for as little as £2150 per week through justpark, giving holidaymakers an 85 per cent saving on official airport parking and putting money back into local people's pockets a spokesperson for london city airport (lcy) told mailonline travel:  'lcy is unique in its close proximity to central london and limited space for parking 'we encourage passengers to travel via public transport, using the airport's own dlr station, and 70 per cent do so 'for those who do choose to drive, we offer free drop off and parking savings of up to 40 per cent by booking online in advance' a spokesperson for london city airport has urged passengers to use public transport to the site  and sean hagger, commercial director at holiday extras, told mailonline travel how it is important for holidaymakers to book their car parking as early as possible 'the figures given are rather misleading, he said here are car parking facilities available outside of the airport, that may be more attractive in price heathrow: https://wwwjustparkcom/uk/parking/heathrow/heathrow airport/  london city: https://wwwjustparkcom/uk/parking/london/london city airport/  gatwick: https://wwwjustparkcom/uk/parking/redhill/gatwick airport/  stansted: https://wwwjustparkcom/uk/parking/stansted/stansted airport/  'if you turn up on the day to park your car for a week or two at an airport designed for business travellers, as london city is, then you will be charged for the privilege 'the reality is that very few holiday travellers do this; i'm pleased to say that brits tend to have more foresight 'it pays to book ahead – even just a couple of days looking on our website i can see that booking a week's meet & greet parking at london city, starting this sunday, would cost £105 per week 'likewise, parking at london heathrow for a week from march 6 at terminal 2's official long stay car park would cost £7580 this price drops as low as £5295 if you use other long term parking options 'if you're just a tiny bit organised, you can save hundreds of pounds'
london city airport jfk 315 third second 167 london city sydney heathrow us
costs an average of £315 per week to park your car at london city airport  representatives from the airport advise customers to use public transport  price to park at london city is more than double that of jfk in the us  heathrow in second spot in price list at £167 per week, sydney is third 