Gouge the customer
We all know that Manchester Airport planning that customers must pay to be dropped off and picked up at airports is just another way to extract cash and has nothing to do with congestion.
Congestion that was caused by reformatting the road system. Not that this frequent traveler has seen any congestion.
They have form on this of course. Security queue too busy. Pay for fast pass. Good way of funding the staff to man those unmanned security channels.
Day one of the new drop off regime might be interesting if cars deliberately stopped outside the charging zone and blocked all access to the airport with queues backing up to the M56.
What is Manchester’s solution? Increase door to door travel time by another 30 minutes. Reminds me of the pirate t-shirt slogan ‘the beatings will continue until morale improves’