December 31, 2023 - Happy New Year! ABM, the company that operates public parking for Maui's Kahului Airport (OGG), is ringing in 2024 with a huge rate increase! Parking fees have held steady for several years, but beginning February 1, the daily parking rate is going up a full 60%, from $15/day to $24/day. Rates for short duration parking - 15 minutes to five hours - are doubling in some cases. 

Here is exactly how much it will cost to park at Kahului Airport (OGG) public parking, hour by hour, with the new rates effective Feb.1 2024 compared to the old rates: 

Duration    New Rate    Old Rate

0-15min        FREE          FREE

16-30min     $2.00         $1.00

31-60min     $5.00         $3.00

1-2hrs          $8.00         $5.00

2-3hrs        $11.00         $7.00

3-4hrs        $15.00         $9.00

4-5hrs        $19.00       $13.00

5-24hrs      $24.00       $15.00

And, to crack down on supposed parking fee fraud - according to ABM, a huge problem - brand new parking machines have been deployed, with OCR cameras that stamp the car's license plate number on the parking ticket on entry, and verify it automatically on exit. 

This is a great technology advancement, but it does not really help with the only form of parking fee fraud we're aware of, which is ABM actually double charging - and in some cases, triple charging - for parking, both with the new system, and the old system. And we have documented instances of both! Is it incredible that the new system was malfunctioning right from the get-go? No, absolutely not. This is typical of what we've come to expect of ABM. 

For the coming week, these are the lowest advertised rates for a one-week rental from Maui's Kahului Airport (OGG), beginning Monday, 1/1/24:

Off-airport (with shuttle): $180.99 (down from last week)

Airport Rentacar Center: $237.17 (also down)

Source: rentalcars.com