Is Quick Park Dublin Airport gone?

Yes it's gone in its current form, I'd say once air traffic picks back up someone will reopen it. Too near the airport to get planning for housing.

Gannon homes own it. I think they go permission for a hotel IIRC.

There is permission for a hotel beside the Carlton, but you'd fit forty hotels on the carpark site. Its up for sale.

It was a coach company that ran it before - getting shuttle drivers wouldn't be easy for even a well established firm these days.

The parking fees are basically the same as they always were, but with all the promotional discounts gone.

People are parking in housing estates in swords and getting busses and taxis to the airport much to the annoyance of locals who regularly see cars parked for weeks in crowded housing estates.

At points at peak times the long term was completely full, so even paying through the nose was not an option.

It transpires that DAA bought this car park and some want this investigated for competition reasons.

It would be helpful if it were allowed operate while this investigation is taking place.

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The price of parking shot up after quickpark closed, and at times the carpark was 100% booked out and full days in advance of things like bank holidays. They used to price match quickpark if booked in advance.

"Tiny" competitors exist such as nearby hotels with their own airport busses offering park at hotel for a week deals. There is also a lot of busses "direct" to airport from all over Ireland including Donegal for example.

The nearby Swords pavilions also offers an airport parking deal, mainly due to all car parks full at airport. They expect you to get public bus to airport and they lock up your car at night.

We really do need a competitor to Aer Rianta, they were full because they prevented their competitor from reopening?!.

They also probably have room to expand on other sites besides quickpark and chose quickpark over other options presumably to prevent someone else opening up there.

I think it's definitely a candidate for anti competitive practice.

They prevented anyone else from operating it by buying it themselves.

Someone else could have opened it in competition undercutting slightly like quickpark did in the past. Then DAA undercut or matched quickpark in the past if booked a few days in advance, but we're much higher last minute.

I reckon quickpark was a big money maker depending on the rent and cost of busses. It always seemed busy even off peak. They expanded the size multiple times.

Where does it say they forced QP to close?