The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said on the 14th that Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) poorly managed the parking lots at Terminals 1 and 2. It said the area eligible for parking with season tickets issued by the corporation to employees and tenant companies amounted to 85% of the entire parking capacity. In practice, the number of daily parking cases using these passes averaged 5,134.
That day, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) released the results of an audit of Incheon Airport's employee parking system. It said the audit was conducted to check for problems in the corporation's internal management system following criticism that parking shortages at Incheon Airport are severe.
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), the corporation issues free season parking passes once every six months to employees and to employees of subsidiaries and airport-tenant institutions. It also provided paid season parking passes to airlines and terminal retailers, among others.
However, as of early February, 31,265 season parking passes had been issued, amounting to 84.5% of the total parking capacity (36,971 spaces). A Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) official said, "Without setting a cap on the number of season passes, the corporation has issued airport parking passes to anyone who wanted one," adding, "This practice has exacerbated congestion in Incheon Airport parking lots."
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport ordered the corporation to tighten the criteria for issuing season parking passes. It also instructed a thorough investigation into improper use cases and to claw back parking fees that were wrongly waived.