So, all of those charges at nearly £25 just to make the Airport experience bearable. When plenty of other airports manage to provide said services for free, including ones with large low cost pre
Good point BUT at "expensive" airports like LGW and LHR, that is factored into what they charge the airlines, it's in your ticket price. So when airports like EDI for example go for broke in getting new operators in, they give the airlines a cut price deal and worry about how they'll get the revenue back later. This is the result, you generally get what you pay for, except when you pay a lot of money for your ticket and you still have to pony up for all the "extras".
I typed that as extras, but they're BASICS (!)