East Midlands Airport brings in £1 drop-off fee
In Brum the taxis came up with the idea of dropping pax outside the IBIS Hotel entrance (it's close to the terminal). That worked for a while until the Airport Gestapo got wind of this and began to fine them 60 quid a go!! If you know the BHX airport layout you will also know that a quick drop off at the IBIS is pretty harmless and does not block traffic flow. The airport authorities just needed to protect their fat cash cow. It's really disgraceful.
In Brum the taxis came up with the idea of dropping pax outside the IBIS Hotel entrance (it's close to the terminal). That worked for a while until the Airport Gestapo got wind of this and began to fine them 60 quid a go!! If you know the BHX airport layout you will also know that a quick drop off at the IBIS is pretty harmless and does not block traffic flow. The airport authorities just needed to protect their fat cash cow. It's really disgraceful.
And it is all so unnecessary. Yes we know the drop off lane was closed as a panic response to the Glasgow incident, but a better solution was eminently feasible. The placement of concrete blocks to prevent cars mounting the kerb would have been far more intelligent than concrete blocks and bollards closing the whole drop-off lane (apparently for good judging by the look of them).
The cynical turning of a security issue into a money-making scheme is shameful.
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I drop off near the roundabout at BHX, along with lots of others from what I've seen, I can use a permit at EMA but the petrol station is just as good.
I refuse to pay the parking fee on principle.
I'm either bringing or collecting THEIR customers, none of which would have been using the airport had they not been visiting my company, so in effect I'm being charged a fee for generating business for the airport.
Anywhere else I'd be getting paid a commission!
I refuse to pay the parking fee on principle.
I'm either bringing or collecting THEIR customers, none of which would have been using the airport had they not been visiting my company, so in effect I'm being charged a fee for generating business for the airport.
Anywhere else I'd be getting paid a commission!
