Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) will be installing new state-of-the-art equipment and technology at its on-airport parking facilities that will provide its customers with one of the fastest, most convenient and easiest-to-use airport parking operations in the country.

The new technology, called 1-2-3 Park - Credit Card In / Credit Card Out, will soon allow on-airport parkers to use their credit or debit card to enter and exit DTW’s onsite parking facilities, without the need to pull a ticket. The new system will function much like airline E-ticket machines, or gas station pay-at-the pump, where customers will:

1 - ENTER - by simply inserting their credit/debit card into the lot’s new automated 1-2-3 Park entry device.

2 - PARK - there is no ticket needed … the customer’s entry information, including date, time and lot is securely stored in the system.

3 - EXIT - When the customer returns, they simply insert the same credit/debit card into a 1-2-3 Park exit device. The system calculates the correct charges, bills their card, prints a receipt, and they are on their way.

With approximately 70% of Metro airport’s parkers already using their credit/debit cards to pay for parking; 1-2-3 Park will bring a new level of convenience and service to DTW’s parking customers by eliminating the hassle of pulling and keeping track of a paper ticket stub. It will also eliminate the need for customers to make the extra stop at the existing pay-on-foot machines at the McNamara Terminal, and will keep lanes moving quickly at the lot exit plazas, with dedicated 1-2-3 Park exit queues for those who use the system.

Metro Airport will phase-in the new 1-2-3 Park system later this Spring in the DTW’s Green and Yellow Lots, followed shortly thereafter by the Big Blue Deck. The project will be completed by the end of this summer, when the McNamara Terminal Garage incorporates the new technology.

Customers will still have the option to pull a ticket and pay by cash at the exit plaza cashier lanes, if they so choose. But as frequent traveler and industry expert David Beckerman, director of consulting services for BACK Aviation Services, states, “Why would you want to? Most people, especially business travelers, are already paying by credit/debit cards anyway, and keeping track of a ticket stub is just one more thing to worry about. Automated Credit Card In / Out parking systems are the wave of the future, and it’s great to see that Detroit Metro Airport is on the leading edge of this new technology.”

For more information and details about Detroit Metro Airport’s new 1-2-3 Park — Credit Card In / Credit Card Out technology coming soon … travelers can visit the airport’s website @ http://www.metroairport.com/.