East Midlands Airport - Rapid Pick-Up and Drop-Off

CarDriver01

I picked up my parents at EMA Rapid Pick-Up and Drop-Off. No barriers on entry or exit and signs stating charge of £5 for 5 minutes. Their signs state you must "pay online or via phone by midnight tomorrow". I forgot and am now expecting a £100 parking charge notice from APCOA.

Would I be right to ignore any parking charge notice on the basis of two points:

1) There was no opportunity to pay onsite
2) They may get details of the car and it's keeper, but the keeper may not be the individual who was driving.

My intention is to ignore any communications and threats from APCOA who manage on behalf of EMA.

Frankly my view is that they deliberately have not provided an opportunity to pay onsite exactly so people forget and then pay a PCN, profiteering from threats and fear.

As a newbie here, I'm keen to get your views and experience.

Gr1pr

Definitely do not ignore 

Appeal it as keeper in the same manner as Manchester Airport threads on here,  or the group thread first Gatwick,  Heathrow,  Manchester etc

No blabbing about who was driving or about what happened 

Its that simple,  no need to chew it over, no views required,  simple task to appeal any Apcoa at an Airport case

Coupon-mad

No ignoring it.

Read the Airport Drop Off Group Thread.

No link from us: just go & find it in a split second by searching the forum. It'll be cancelled this month.

ChirpyChicken

You can beat this with your eyes closed

innocentparker

This is what I sent and it was cancelled the next day. 

This is an appeal by the registered keeper - No driver details will be given. Please do not bother with your known fishing expedition in an attempt to get driver details to try and get around the fact there is no keeper liability (and never can be under POFA).

Due to this being airport land you will be well aware there is no keeper liability due to the byelaws in force and the fact this is not relevant land.

As there is no keeper liability then liability cannot flow from the driver to the keeper and thus is an auto win @ POPLA. Please therefore cancel the notice or issue a POPLA code where you will auto withdraw

If you waste your time asking for driver details this will be ignored and you will still lose at POPLA if you dont cancel the PCN

So let's save my time and yours and cancel this PCN you simply cannot win this (and you know it).

Giant_Hogweed

Thats odd, I thought it was VCS who were the PPC at EMA, last time I went I even saw the van in the airport petrol station (they photographed my son and granddaughter getting into the car but I've not heard a thing presumably as I'd put some fuel in and we went into the shop as well). 
Do VCS monitor the roads and APCOA the car parks?

Gr1pr

VCS definitely used patrol EMA because we used to see plenty of VCS threads about EMA, LJLA,  Southend & Robin Hood airports 

Apcoa do seem to monitor drop off and pick up areas at numerous airports like London and Manchester 

Coupon-mad

Giant_Hogweed said:

Thats odd, I thought it was VCS who were the PPC at EMA, last time I went I even saw the van in the airport petrol station (they photographed my son and granddaughter getting into the car but I've not heard a thing presumably as I'd put some fuel in and we went into the shop as well).

Do VCS monitor the roads and APCOA the car parks?

Yes I think APCOA do the drop off zone.

VCS infest the red lines roads.

ChirpyChicken

Coupon-mad said:

Giant_Hogweed said:

Thats odd, I thought it was VCS who were the PPC at EMA, last time I went I even saw the van in the airport petrol station (they photographed my son and granddaughter getting into the car but I've not heard a thing presumably as I'd put some fuel in and we went into the shop as well).

Do VCS monitor the roads and APCOA the car parks?

Yes I think APCOA do the drop off zone.

VCS infest the red lines roads.

that is indeed the case