Originally Posted by
Hotel Tango
@ LTNman
Have you read my post?
Allow vehicles into the drop off area free of charge and charge if their stay extends say beyond 15 minutes. The area at BHX is large enough and the traffic will flow even better than it does now! Tell me, how do major airports such as Schiphol, Dusseldorf, Brussels continue to allow terminal drop off without any congestion? I know the answer but I'll let you work it out. If you're defending the need to charge for a simple drop off then you must be working in airport management.
Edit: Sorry, I should say UK airport management!
The problem that exists in UK is twofold.
First, privatised airports that are there to make profits for shareholders, be they Canadian pension funds or Spanish quasi-private airport operators. Most airports in Europe still tend to be state or local government operated or controlled.
Second, the UK mantra "security is paramount". Simply because a pair of incompetent terrorists tried to drive through the terminal doors as Glasgow, HMG government over reacted, as usual, and gave the airport operators the golden opportunity that you describe above.