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Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - AndrewK

Merry Christmas from Newcastle Airport! 59 minutes parking for £5.90 - 10p per minute!!!!

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - FP

Luton Airport drop-off: £3 for up to 10 minutes. 30p per minute. Overstay and the rate rises sharply (£1 per minute).

Edited by FP on 13/12/2018 at 12:48

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - Snakey

Newcastle airport parking is a disgrace, most of the airport is simply there to get money out of your wallet but the parking is cringeworthy!

You can't even drop people off without paying!

Last year I had to pick someone up from there and was in the car park for 50 minutes (i.e £6) and I got stuck in the queue of cars trying to get out as the barriers weren't working properly. By the time I reached the barrier I'd flipped into the second hour band by about 2 minutes and charged £12!!!

Obviously I complained, and sure enough the airport management viewed the cctv and 'couldn't' see any issues' Downright lies.

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - Heidfirst

You can't even drop people off without paying!

You also can't at Glasgow or Edinburgh.

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - daveyjp
Standard approach now I'm afraid.

The ex CEO at Newcastle is now at Leeds Bradford and charges are of course similar.

Last summer we used Manchester about a week after the drop off charges were introduced and 'stop and drop off anywhere to avoid paying' seemed to be the order of the day.
Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - Vitesse6

Makes you wonder how we ended up like this, all our services like this have become cash cows to be milked mercilessly.

Maybe it's time to put yellow waistcoats on.

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - gordonbennet

I don't use airports, but my son and family found it's as easy and cost effective to arrange a one way car hire, simply dump the hire car at the terminal drop off and (in the case of Heathrow at least) hop on the courtesy bus to the terminal, at many airports it's a short stroll in...to be fair theirs was one way due to emigrating.

I refuse to allow these bandits to plunder my pocket of the increasingly less the govt of the day allows me to keep of my salary, so any alternatives will be considered where pure rip offs are found.

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - kiss (keep it simple)

Luton has free drop off at the medium stay car park. They are obviously trying to encourage drivers to stay away from the terminal. You can collect as well as long as you don't wait for more than 20? minutes. There are a few side roads where the local cabbies hang around until their punters are on the bus.

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - badbusdriver

£2 to drop off or pick up at Aberdeen airport.

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - Cluedo

What do they charge you if you're not driving a Subaru Outback :-) Sorry guys I couldn't resist a bit humour at this festive time. I do appreciate your post is making a serious point.

Edited by Cluedo on 13/12/2018 at 20:32

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - barney100

Stansted was £3 to be dropped off from a taxi a few months ago. It's a great cash cow for the airport, They must make a fortune and it's a charge that will not go away just like hospital car parking charges...in England. I suspect we won't borrow the gillets jaune from our French friends but send e mails to our Mps.

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - tourantass
Manchester airport charge £3 for 4 mins or £4 for ten mins...however if you find yourself running out of time and recirculate...you will be hit with a hefty £25 penalty charge. Trying to get picked up from arivals by a taxi or uber is a joke as they cant find you and wont hang around looking.
Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - Catfood

I only turn up at the airport when I receive a phone call from my family that they are in the arrival hall. We meet and pick up from the Shell garage in front of the terminal building.....It costs me nothing....They fence up every inch of street around there and it's like walking in the cattle market....

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - badbusdriver

If picking up family or friends from Aberdeen airport the waiting time in the drop off/pick up zone is only something like 10 mins and they are very strict on it. So i park at a popular point overlooking the airport about 5 mins away waiting for a phone call or text message. Onfortunately there is no way to avoid the £2 charge though, at least not without whoever is being picked up (or dropped off) making a 10 minute walk. And while i may be Scottish, i'm not stingy enough to make them do that!.

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - Snakey

Last time I was flying back to NCL from T5, my mate dropped me off outside the entrance - entirely free (and legal!)

If T5 can provide a drop off point for free, its only sheer greed that the likes of Newcastle airport charge for it. Mind you if Newcastle airport is like the others its all about selling booze and perfume and providing as few toilets and seats as they can get away with!

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - Engineer Andy

Sounds like there's an opening for a bike-rickshaw entrepreneur to set up shop just outside the entrance on the public road (or whever the time charge for cars starts).

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - nick62

It has got totally ridiculous, the charges are an outrage.

It would only take one week of everyone refusing to fly and the job would be sorted, but a snowball has as much chance of surviving in hell as the British have of showing solidarity.

At least my local airport (Liverpool) still has a free drop-off / collect within 5 mins walk of the terminal. I think it's 40 (or maybe 50) minutes free, but it's impossible to find if you don't know it's there, .................... I wonder why?

Edited by nick62 on 14/12/2018 at 14:29

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - tourantass
Apparently iLiverpool lead the way for the rip of charges for dropping off, when Manchester airport heard what they were making they decided they wanted some of that. No other reason just greed.
Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - nick62
Apparently iLiverpool lead the way for the rip of charges for dropping off, when Manchester airport heard what they were making they decided they wanted some of that. No other reason just greed.

Liverpool drop-off is free for 40 minutes if you can manage a 5 minute walk. Alternatively it is £3 for 20 minutes outside the terminal.

AFAIK, Manchester don't offer a free drop-off (within walking distance)?

Birmingham airport was the first airport I know of to introduce drop-off charges, as far back as 2010/2011?

Manchester airport has gone from being decent 20 years ago to being a truly horrible experience nowadays. Unfortunately I use it approx. every two weeks and security early on a Monday morning is an absolute joke. The same at passport (un)control on a Friday evening.

We have now stooped so low that you can pay a fee to get preferential treatment at passport control, what sort of a disgrace it that?

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - bathtub tom

Sounds like there's an opening for a bike-rickshaw entrepreneur to set up shop just outside the entrance on the public road (or whever the time charge for cars starts).

Not at Luton (sorry, London/Luton). The station's at the bottom of a hill and the airport's at the top. The road between is a nightmare. They've promised to spend millions improving it, but they've just opened a multi-million pound improvement to the airport to enable it to take more passengers.

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - nick62

Sounds like there's an opening for a bike-rickshaw entrepreneur to set up shop just outside the entrance on the public road (or whever the time charge for cars starts).

Not at Luton (sorry, London/Luton). The station's at the bottom of a hill and the airport's at the top. The road between is a nightmare. They've promised to spend millions improving it, but they've just opened a multi-million pound improvement to the airport to enable it to take more passengers.

I bet they improve this road before they electrify the Liverpool - Leeds - Hull railway line though.

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - FP

As I'm fairly local to Luton and use the airport several times a year (five times in 2018) I maintain an ongoing interest.

Construction has already started on a driverless automatic rail link between Luton Airport Parkway (Thameslink main line to London) and the terminal building. It will run 24/7. When it's complete I imagine a lot of passengers will be dropped off at the Parkway station and not the terminal.

The present car drop-off area, I'm told, is temporary and will be relocated underground at some point - I'm not sure where this will be.

Recent improvements have included opening two lanes in each direction on the road to the terminal and the traffic flow is generally better than it was, but is still liable to congestion. The new rail link will improve that, but as passenger numbers have increased by 66% over the last five years and further expansion is planned, one can only surmise that it's all a matter of running to stand still.

Edited by FP on 15/12/2018 at 10:20

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - FoxyJukebox

Look forward to the rail link from Luton Airport Parkway up the hill to (hopefully) check in area--and not the current crazy 5 minute external hike from the current drop off to the main building.

One point though-Luton Airport Parkway will probably have to adopt a strict drop off zone( with a nice hefty charge as well of course)-this area is currently pretty small and taken up mainly by bus companies and around 50 car parking spaces-always full of course( who are these people who park there all day?).

Also I believe there is currently station parking for commuters that will have to compete with airport travellers wishing to use long stay/short stay or what have you.

So--all in all--a major revamp for Luton Airport Parkway too--and about time too--it's an unpleasant place

Subaru Outback - Airport Parking - FP

"...Luton Airport Parkway will probably have to adopt a strict drop off zone( with a nice hefty charge as well of course)-this area is currently pretty small and taken up mainly by bus companies and around 50 car parking spaces-always full of course..."

The new rail link will be on the other side (the north side) of the present Luton Airport Parkway station buildings, where there is quite a lot of space and where, presumably, passengers will access the new link directly. However, no doubt there will need to be strict parking controls there.

Presumably it will be possible to access the link from inside the mainline rail station for those arriving by rail, but passengers will not be enter the mainline station without a ticket. Will you be able to buy a ticket just to the airport terminal at the present entrance to the mainline station? How all that will work we can only guess.

From glancing at the landscape and seeing the various construction projects in progress it's clear that a lot more parking will be provided relatively near the terminal.