yorky66
'If 100% of clients are totally pi**ed off with the whole concept of drop off charges and most say they will avoid BOH in future how can that possiby protect peoples jobs.'
There are not many people who will actually avoid Bournemouth in the future, maybe a few dozen, maybe a few hundred and if they are daft enough to pay extra petrol to avoid £2.50 then that's their choice. As has been explained several times on here,the airport HAS to make money to survive. It only has the choice of imposing a departure / development charge on tickets (WHICH AIRLINES WILL NOT TOLERATE) or to make money from the duty free or car parking. The car park charge, unpopular as it is, makes them money. This prevents them from going bust - it's as simple as that. They may not be very good at explaining it but you only have to look at MAG's accounts to see the problem.
Also, as has been pointed out, several other airports charge too, whether it's for drop off or via a development tax (such as at Exeter). Incidentally, the compulsory use of the car park also prevents the situation that used to occur where dozens of cars would sit on yellow lines / taxi ranks etc waiting to pick up passengers and happily blocking access for other users of the airport.
It's just part of the modern aviation business, cheap flights mean airlines do not pay much in landing or other fees to airports therefore airports are forced to charge for other services. Simples.