But Massport plans to cut the daily rate at its Logan Express lots by $4, from $11 to $7. The satellite lots, located in Woburn, Framingham, Braintree, and Peabody, require passengers to take a $22 shuttle.
The price at the economy lot for longer-term parking, located about a mile from the terminals, will remain $18 a day.
The price changes are expected to generate an additional $10 million a year for Massport. Officials plan to propose the new rates at the next board meeting; they could go into effect as early as March 1.
Massport officials say the new prices are necessary to encourage people to park in remote lots as passenger numbers continue to rise. The airport hit a record high of 28.9 million travelers in 2011, and the number of cars parking in the terminal lots has been rising by about 4 percent a year.
The growth is mainly fueled by business travelers, who last year during the peak Tuesday-Thursday travel period filled the terminal lots to capacity a dozen times: This year, without any change in parking incentives, officials say the lots could exceed capacity in 30 of 52 weeks.
When the airport’s 16,500 spaces are all occupied, parking attendants fit about 1,500 additional cars into nooks and crannies, an inefficient system that requires Massport to pay workers to valet-park cars and leads to more fender benders in cramped quarters. When these extra spaces are all occupied, cars are sent to parking lots along Route 1.
The airport isn’t allowed to build additional spaces because of a citywide parking freeze in effect since the 1970s.
Massport counts on parking revenues to help finance operations and construction. Airports are not allowed to make money from the terminal rents and landing fees they charge airlines, but Massport can use its parking profits to fund projects, including at the Port of Boston.
