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We the undersigned, believe that the Burlington International Airport Administration is taking advantage of local airline employees who use BTV to commute to their domiciles – the same airline employees who work for the very airlines that make BTV a viable airline destination.
We believe that the administration is price gouging, and arbitrarily raising parking lot fees on a yearly basis without justification, and without improvements commensurate with the increased cost.
It is patently unfair to charge full time airport employees less for parking than commuting airline crews who call Vermont home. BTV terminal employees enjoy paid parking, or parking reimbursement by their employers. This is NOT the case for most airline crews. Further, commuting airline crews occupy parking spots in the employee lot for a fraction of the time used by their local counterparts.
The recent response from your office has stated that the rates are "far under industry standard" but as most of us know, Vermont - and Burlington specifically, are anything but standard. In fact, many large metropolitan airports either charge less for employee parking, or afford space to the airlines who then GIVE their employees parking passes in the employee lots.
Airport management would not have heard a single word of complaint from airline crews about increases that were in line with cost of living, inflation, or some other sensible index. However, as recently as 2008, crew parking cost $100 annually. In 5 years’ time, that fee has exploded by 300%. These exorbitant and unjustified increases need to stop.
In case airport management is under the impression that our employers reimburse crews for parking at their home airport, and that increases of this magnitude in cost don’t affect us directly, this is not true. Most crews are paying this fee out of our own pockets, and out of our own family budgets. Like most Americans, our budgets cannot sustain 300% increases in ANY individual cost item in a 5 year period.
Please stop biting the hand that feeds. Should you need to raise revenue now or in the future, please look to passing these fees on to the consumer (either operators or users) rather than from the wallets of the individuals who work for the companies that bring revenue to our airport.
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Updates
January 30, 2014
The airport administration continues to dismiss our concerns by pointing to industry standards that simply do not reflect our reality here in Vermont. I keep thinking about the crews I know who are being priced out of their own home airport while they try to get to their jobs. We are preparing to bring these direct stories to the next board meeting to show them exactly who is paying for these arbitrary hikes.
January 30, 2014
Seeing this level of support reminds me why I started this fight in the first place because we deserve fair treatment at our own home airport. The momentum we have right now proves that airport management can no longer ignore the people who actually keep these planes running.
12 Comments
I hope we can come to a reasonable outcome, otherwise I will find parking elsewhere. Thank you to those who got this ball rolling!
The fee is too steep for an airline employee who serves the same location. We bring the business to you and you are trying to profit off of us while doing so!
Whether we do our job at the actual airport or fly out of it to our bases we are still airline employees and this should be treated the same as the others to park there. In uniform I am constantly asked questions by the traveling public while at BTV I am polite and I answer them. I don't charge them or say I don't work here go to airport management with your questions.
Employees working for the same airlines we work for that are not commuting are paying $125
I thoroughly agree. I also brought up the fact to the office on how much the rate has gone up. We, as crew members, should be charged no more than employees who work at the BTV A/P.
Hope airport leadership will get the clue
As a public property that is funded from state and federal taxes, I'm more than a little surprised that the prices have gone up again this year. After notifiying KBTV in writing about the safety concerns concerning the sidewalk issue to the long term parking, it was finally rectified after 3 years. They chose not to remove the snow on this sidewalk and instead posted a very expensive sign instead stating "Sidewalk Closed". Only after bringing it to the attention of the Chief of Airport Operations and stating that we would take it to the City of Burlington, they finally started to plow this sidewalk. I believe the head of Burlington Airport Operations is making these decisions at his/her own whim and not giving us sufficient information to warrant this increase in costs. Especially when other airport employees are roughly paying HALF the rate we are. In addition, the long-term parking lot is NOT plowed regularly like the short-term parking lot and several "close" parking spots have been barricaded off in the long-term parking lot. Those spots did not need to be blocked off when there is several other spots the snow could easily go and not provide a hinderance to the long-term parkers.
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Status: Closed — this petition is no longer accepting signatures.
Final supporters
We the undersigned, believe that the Burlington International Airport Administration is taking advantage of local airline employees who use BTV to commute to their domiciles – the same airline employees who work for the very airlines that make BTV a viable airline destination.
We believe that the administration is price gouging, and arbitrarily raising parking lot fees on a yearly basis without justification, and without improvements commensurate with the increased cost.
It is patently unfair to charge full time airport employees less for parking than commuting airline crews who call Vermont home. BTV terminal employees enjoy paid parking, or parking reimbursement by their employers. This is NOT the case for most airline crews. Further, commuting airline crews occupy parking spots in the employee lot for a fraction of the time used by their local counterparts.
The recent response from your office has stated that the rates are "far under industry standard" but as most of us know, Vermont - and Burlington specifically, are anything but standard. In fact, many large metropolitan airports either charge less for employee parking, or afford space to the airlines who then GIVE their employees parking passes in the employee lots.
Airport management would not have heard a single word of complaint from airline crews about increases that were in line with cost of living, inflation, or some other sensible index. However, as recently as 2008, crew parking cost $100 annually. In 5 years’ time, that fee has exploded by 300%. These exorbitant and unjustified increases need to stop.
In case airport management is under the impression that our employers reimburse crews for parking at their home airport, and that increases of this magnitude in cost don’t affect us directly, this is not true. Most crews are paying this fee out of our own pockets, and out of our own family budgets. Like most Americans, our budgets cannot sustain 300% increases in ANY individual cost item in a 5 year period.
Please stop biting the hand that feeds. Should you need to raise revenue now or in the future, please look to passing these fees on to the consumer (either operators or users) rather than from the wallets of the individuals who work for the companies that bring revenue to our airport.
Updates
January 30, 2014
The airport administration continues to dismiss our concerns by pointing to industry standards that simply do not reflect our reality here in Vermont. I keep thinking about the crews I know who are being priced out of their own home airport while they try to get to their jobs. We are preparing to bring these direct stories to the next board meeting to show them exactly who is paying for these arbitrary hikes.
January 30, 2014
Seeing this level of support reminds me why I started this fight in the first place because we deserve fair treatment at our own home airport. The momentum we have right now proves that airport management can no longer ignore the people who actually keep these planes running.
12 Comments
Ridiculous that they keep hiking these rates. Were basically paying for parking spaces that arent even maintained half the time. Stop treating us like cash cows just cause we live here.
I hope we can come to a reasonable outcome, otherwise I will find parking elsewhere. Thank you to those who got this ball rolling!
The fee is too steep for an airline employee who serves the same location. We bring the business to you and you are trying to profit off of us while doing so!
Whether we do our job at the actual airport or fly out of it to our bases we are still airline employees and this should be treated the same as the others to park there. In uniform I am constantly asked questions by the traveling public while at BTV I am polite and I answer them. I don't charge them or say I don't work here go to airport management with your questions.
Employees working for the same airlines we work for that are not commuting are paying $125
I thoroughly agree. I also brought up the fact to the office on how much the rate has gone up. We, as crew members, should be charged no more than employees who work at the BTV A/P.
Hope airport leadership will get the clue
As a public property that is funded from state and federal taxes, I'm more than a little surprised that the prices have gone up again this year. After notifiying KBTV in writing about the safety concerns concerning the sidewalk issue to the long term parking, it was finally rectified after 3 years. They chose not to remove the snow on this sidewalk and instead posted a very expensive sign instead stating "Sidewalk Closed". Only after bringing it to the attention of the Chief of Airport Operations and stating that we would take it to the City of Burlington, they finally started to plow this sidewalk. I believe the head of Burlington Airport Operations is making these decisions at his/her own whim and not giving us sufficient information to warrant this increase in costs. Especially when other airport employees are roughly paying HALF the rate we are. In addition, the long-term parking lot is NOT plowed regularly like the short-term parking lot and several "close" parking spots have been barricaded off in the long-term parking lot. Those spots did not need to be blocked off when there is several other spots the snow could easily go and not provide a hinderance to the long-term parkers.
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Ridiculous that they keep hiking these rates. Were basically paying for parking spaces that arent even maintained half the time. Stop treating us like cash cows just cause we live here.