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MSE News: Airports now charging up to £4.50 for a 10-min drop-off - how to beat 'kiss and fly' fees

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More than half of the UK's major international airports now charge you if you spend 10 minutes dropping a loved one off outside the terminal building...
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The funniest thing about Birmingham Airport is the way they issue fake 'fines' for stopping on the red routes, yet their camera enforcement vehicle parks on those very same routes to 'enforce' the 'rules'. By the way, MSE's Parking tickets sub-board can help if anyone receives one of the fake fines.
Wouldn't it be helpful if comparison sites such as skyscanner were to list parking charges for each departure airport when displaying flight results? Might make people think before blindly booking at rip-off airports.
i haven't been since it started but apparently the area for free dropping of is tiny. especially when you compare it to the tree terminal drop off area's it replaced.
again common sense hasn't been applied. its all about money making.
My OH uses Stansted roughly every six weeks. It takes less than an hour to drive there, and the return car journey costs about £7 in petrol, plus £3.50 drop off fee.
The train takes almost two hours one way, costs £36, and is unreliable.
A similar thing happened to me although not at an airport. I pressed the button to speak to the operator, advised them of the circumstances and added that I had no intention of paying to open the barrier or moving my car until the barrier opened.
It opened.
If they added a small amount the landing fees people wouldn't notice, and I think it would be more cost effective.
People just seem willing to throw away money.
Its a lot cheaper to get a taxi to/from Parkway as well rather than using the on-airport operator.
They have a similar system at Luton, Gatwick and Heathrow as well as Stansted, i guess there are others that use a similar system.
https://www.london-luton.co.uk/to-and-from-lla/want-to-drop-off-for-free
First 2 hours are free:
https://www.heathrow.com/transport-and-directions/heathrow-parking/heathrow-long-stay-parking
https://www.gatwickparking.com/our-car-parks/passenger-collection/