On October 14, 2026, we relaunched our own project, OnTime Airport Parking, an independent comparison of parking at US airports. We wrote about its launch back in 2023. The site does not book spaces or sell parking: it puts the rates of airports and nearby private lots side by side and estimates the cost of a trip for your dates. The site is funded by Google AdSense ads; parking lots do not pay to be listed.
What is on the site now
- 4 airports — Albuquerque (ABQ), Sacramento (SMF), Indianapolis (IND) and Providence (PVD).
- 25 parking lots — 17 of the airports' own lots and garages and 8 private lots nearby.
- A cost calculator — enter your arrival and departure dates and times, and the site estimates the total from each lot's posted rates: hourly rate bands, the daily maximum, partial days. Where an operator does not say how it counts days, the assumption is shown next to the price.
- 79 source pages — mostly airport and parking operator websites. Verbatim quotes from those pages are saved for every lot, and each price includes the date it was checked (all were checked on October 14, 2026).
- 4 guides — how much airport parking costs, on-airport versus off-airport parking, how to use a free cell phone lot, and how to get from Albuquerque airport to Santa Fe and Taos.
An example is the page on Albuquerque airport parking: it compares the airport garage (daily maximum $14), two airport economy lots ($8 and $10) and private shuttle lots.
How we check prices
Each price comes from the page of the airport or of the company that runs the service: a parking operator, a hotel, a transport company. We save the page as a snapshot, and the site's data keeps a verbatim quote from it next to the price. When an operator does not publish a rate and only shows a price in an online quote, the site gives a sample quote for specific dates and says when it was taken. Booking marketplaces that sell many operators' lots are not used as a source of prices.
Technology
The site is static and built with Astro: every page is ready-made HTML, and a sample calculator result is already on the page before any script loads. Airport and lot data live in JSON files together with their sources, and a separate script checks the built pages before deploy. Addresses from the previous version of the site redirect to the new pages with a 301, and removed sections return 410 Gone.
Want a reference site built the same way?
Like OnTime: data with a source and check date, a static build, and checks of the built pages before deploy. Get in touch.