Dublin Airport park and fly passengers face high prices and low availability as the airport struggles to deal with increased demand.
Passengers driving to the airport could potentially face having nowhere to park their cars while they head abroad as the airport resumes full operational capacity following the pandemic.
Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast, editor of Air and Travel Magazine Eoghan Corry said: "What we've seen is something quite interesting, Dublin airport until a few years ago had a very standard parking charge, you went in, you picked up your ticket, you paid quite a lot for short term and less according to which car park you paid in.
"What they did a couple of years ago is exactly what airlines like Ryanair have been doing for years, hotels are doing, dynamic pricing.
"They've changed the prices according to peek supply and demand. All that has happened… is that we've hit peak demand for car park rates.
"It means that the online deals that were available were effectively cancelled in the run-up to Easter."
Mr Corry said the impact would particularly be felt by people who have been travelling over the past two years.
He said: "In 2020, the airport ran at about 5 per cent of capacity. So you've got people who expected to get the online rates that were there. They are not there. In fact, for a long period in that very nervous run into Easter, online booking was knocked out altogether."
The travel expert warned that over the peak summer months, demand would outweigh supply.
Mr Corry said: "As with everything at Dublin Airport, it's a little bit more complicated than I just said.
"The biggest problem is that the demand is going to outstrip supply for the entire summer unless something dramatic happens.
"The clear reason for this is that one, of not a Dublin Airport car park, but a private car park, QuickPark closed during the Covid and had not reopened. Three thousand five hundred spaces have been taken, long term spaces have been taken, out of the system not sure how the summer demand is going to impact on the remaining spaces, but certainly, over Easter, it was panic stations almost.
"That's why they closed off the online car parking."
He added: "They did quietly decide that everyone who would come would that asked for a ticket at the gate would be able to do so.
"That means they were paying more, but it also meant that it got over the problem that people would arrive for to park in a long term car park in Dublin Airport and then an hour and a half before check-in be left with a car they didn't know what to do with.
"That didn't happen. I'm not sure what is going to happen over the summer."
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