Leaderboards
Everything here is a sort of the same dataset. Nothing is scored, weighted or given a rating, because a rating is an opinion and this is a record of prices.
The most expensive trolley on record
- 01 MIA Miami International United States $9.00
- 02 LAX Los Angeles International United States $8.00
- 03 JFK John F. Kennedy International United States $6.00
- 04 SYD Sydney Kingsford Smith Australia $2.64
- 05 EDI Edinburgh United Kingdom $2.56
- 06 BHX Birmingham United Kingdom $2.56
- 07 MAN Manchester United Kingdom $1.28
- 08 LBA Leeds Bradford United Kingdom $1.28
Converted to US dollars at a rate dated and committed to the repository, so the order can be reproduced later rather than shifting under you. Where a machine takes several coins the cheapest one is used, because that is what an informed traveller pays. Refundable deposits are not here at all: you get that money back.
Airports that went free
- CVG Made carts free Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International CEO Larry Krauter: "Providing complimentary new luggage carts demonstrates our commitment to putting passengers first."
- GEG Made carts free Spokane International Announced in August, live in early September, alongside free wifi in the same announcement.
- ABZ Made carts free Aberdeen The date has not been established.
Airports that went the other way
- EDI Started charging Edinburgh A new contactless-only fleet. Announced at £1 and reported at £2 since, so the launch figure is disputed.
- LAX Put the price up Los Angeles International The rate was set by a Los Angeles World Airports resolution.
- MIA Ruled out free carts Miami International The airport considered making carts free and decided against it.
- MAN Started charging Manchester Introduced with a new fleet.
- BHX Stopped refunding the deposit Birmingham The old £1 was a deposit you got back, so the real change was from nothing to £2.
The same company, different prices
The strongest thing in this dataset is not any single price. It is that the same operator charges nothing at one airport and nine dollars at another, which means the price is set by the airport and not by the company wheeling the trolleys out.
Smarte Carte runs the trolleys at Changi across all four terminals and they are free there. The same company charges at Miami, Los Angeles, Kennedy and Sydney. Sydney is the airport that says so out loud: the operator's Australian managing director has stated on the record that the prices are set by the airport.