[Finance] gatwick drop-off fee £5

[wardy wonder land]

anybody ignored this and got the follow up PCN ?

have to midnight sunday to decide to pay it or ignore

any insights ?

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Don’t ignore it. You’ll receive a letter in the post.

 

[Pudos]

anybody ignored this and got the follow up PCN ?

have to midnight sunday to decide to pay it or ignore

any insights ?[/QUOTE

Pay the £5 or you pay a lot more

 

[BNthree]

Good luck trying to blag that.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

A fiver to drop off? ********!

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[Miximate]

Just back from Cork airport this morning, first 10 mins are free and then starts charging ( via ANPR)

 

[Bold Seagull]

Picked Daughter up on Tuesday, long stay is free for 2 hours, they hopped on a bus and met me there. Very easy stress free option all be it it adds a 5min bus transfer for the travellers.

Edit - sorry didn’t realise this was past not future!!

 

[doogie004]

anybody ignored this and got the follow up PCN ?

have to midnight sunday to decide to pay it or ignore

any insights ?

Don’t ignore you will get a letter


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[Wrong-Direction]

Picked Daughter up on Tuesday, long stay is free for 2 hours, they hopped on a bus and met me there. Very easy stress free option all be it it adds a 5min bus transfer for the travellers.

Edit - sorry didn’t realise this was past not future!!

Good to know though

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[dazzer6666]

Picked Daughter up on Tuesday, long stay is free for 2 hours, they hopped on a bus and met me there. Very easy stress free option all be it it adds a 5min bus transfer for the travellers.

Edit - sorry didn’t realise this was past not future!!

5 mins can easily be 20 mins+ if you just miss the bus and have to wait…….been caught like that a few times.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

anybody ignored this and got the follow up PCN ?

have to midnight sunday to decide to pay it or ignore

any insights ?

It’s only £5, why would you not pay it?

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

A fiver to drop off? ********!

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Almost like airports have been destroyed over the past two years financially

 

[Jim in the West]

I've used it a few times recently - when the trains are f***ed, my daughter gets out at Gatwick Airport and I pick her up from the Drop Off zone. Very happy to pay the £5, considering how convenient it is.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

anybody ignored this and got the follow up PCN ?

have to midnight sunday to decide to pay it or ignore

any insights ?

Quibbling over a fiver? really? I have no problem with paying it, Gatwick has to find a way of reducing it's massive losses somehow, and £5 to drop someone off is small fry really.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Genuinely amazed the majority think this is ‘fine’. Agree have to pay it if rules and got an instruction, but the underlying rule sounds pretty scummy and crap. Thankfully not used Gatwick in well over a decade and flights always seem to be from Heathrow or one of the smaller London airports.

 

[Springal]

Genuinely amazed the majority think this is ‘fine’. Agree have to pay it if rules and got an instruction, but the underlying rule sounds pretty scummy and crap. Thankfully not used Gatwick in well over a decade and flights always seem to be from Heathrow or one of the smaller London airports.

This exists at Heathrow. Has existed at Luton for years. Not sure about Stansted or Southend

https://www.heathrow.com/transport-and-directions/terminal-drop-off-charge

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It’s only £5, why would you not pay it?

This. It's pathetic. Maybe have one less pint in the Red Lion to offset the cost or something. If you can afford the flight, you can afford the drop-off fee. Suck it up cheapskates!

 

[Seagull58]

It's extortion and utterly outrageous to charge someone to drop off or pick up a traveller who is paying the airline for the flight, from which the airline pays the airport for the lake-off and landing slots. It doesn't matter whether it is "only the cost of a pint", it's still outrageous.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

This exists at Heathrow. Has existed at Luton for years. Not sure about Stansted or Southend

https://www.heathrow.com/transport-and-directions/terminal-drop-off-charge

Abso-flippin-lutely, Airports worldwide have been absolutely starved of income for the past two years, they have to start recouping money from somewhere, however little.

£5 is an absolute bargain as far as l'm concerned. All power to their elbow l say.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

It's extortion and utterly outrageous to charge someone to drop off or pick up a traveller who is paying the airline for the flight, from which the airline pays the airport for the lake-off and landing slots. It doesn't matter whether it is "only the cost of a pint", it's still outrageous.

Nonsense, would you rather see airports and ultimately airlines go bust. It could happen.