The big picture LTNman is that you are already paying for airport services as part of the airport charges which are added to your ticket costs. Therefore they are in effect charging twice. Airports only started charging after the Glasgow incident and the subsequent idiocy that followed in the UK. As I said, airports over this side of the channel don't feel the need to charge for simply dropping off or picking up pax - and you can do so right in front of the terminal. I reckon they see the big picture better than greedy UK airport managers do.