Passenger drop-off charges elevated at greater than a 3rd of UK airports

Fees for drivers dropping off holiday-goers have elevated at greater than a 3rd of UK airports.

Since August 2022, eight out of 21 airports analysed by the RAC have both raised or launched fees for dropping off passengers.

It mentioned motorists ought to “brace themselves” for record-high charges.

Southampton Airport and Belfast International Airport noticed the most important hike in costs, with the previous elevating the payment from £4 to £6 for 20 minutes and the latter from £1 to £3 for 10 minutes.

Despite not elevating its worth this 12 months, Stansted Airport continues to high the desk for the most costly drop-off price at £7 for quarter-hour.

Aberdeen, Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford and Liverpool John Lennon airports have every added £1 to their charges whereas London’s Heathrow froze the payment at £5 with no time restrict.

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The solely airports – out of these analysed – which permit free drop-offs exterior terminals had been Cardiff, Inverness and London City.

Nicholas Lyes, head of roads coverage at RAC mentioned the annual rise in airport charges has turn into a “ritual”, including that persons are more and more pressed to ask family and friends to drop them off as a result of industrial motion on the railway.

“Being dropped off at the airport by car is the only reliable way to make their flight on time,” he mentioned.

“Drivers tempted to drop loved ones on the roads inside the boundaries of the airport should beware as many enforce no-stopping areas with cameras which could lead to hefty penalty charges.”

Numerous airports provide free choices for dropping passengers off in mid or long-stay automobile parks, that are additional away from terminal buildings however linked by buses.