[Finance] gatwick drop-off fee £5

[pastafarian]

Edit just seen your post, 10 minutes wow, I won’t pick anyone up until they call me at kerbside, I’m there no more than 3 minutes each time, 10 minutes is ridiculous!

Im just using the 2 hour free long stay option now.
Refuse to give these money grabbing bastards any drop off/pick up tax
+ save my morning dump and have a good long relaxing 30 minute shit at the airport instead, must cost them £10 quid in air freshner
F*&K the airports

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Out of principle.
The driver who took us to Heathrow for the return journey home had to pay the same.
Bloody daylight robbery, what next a pound a person to drop off at railway stations !
Have to pay for everything over there, that I did notice.
Even air for topping up car tyres !

Fair enough. I see it slightly differently; airports lost millions during Covid and whilst we’d all like to pay nothing:

1) There are alternatives and the drop-off is a convenience; often in life you have pay for convenience.
2) Flying usually isn’t essential. It costs money and in the grand scheme of things 5 quid on top of all the other costs isn’t much.

 

[Bob!]

Yes 100%.

I drove through the £5 drop off area by accident but didn’t stop, do I still need to pay?

No you don't.

As long as it took you less than 90 seconds to get through.

I did the same a couple of months ago, and found that buried in the FAQ's.

( I didn't get a charge)

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Out of principle.
The driver who took us to Heathrow for the return journey home had to pay the same.
Bloody daylight robbery, what next a pound a person to drop off at railway stations !
Have to pay for everything over there, that I did notice.
Even air for topping up car tyres !

So you want those machines provided and serviced for free ?

 

[Lenny Rider]

Is it every UK airport? Dropping family off at Stansted today.

 

[Bob!]

Is it every UK airport? Dropping family off at Stansted today.

Yes to Stansted, there are barriers so you have to physically pay on the dsy.

Free drop off at Mid Stay car park.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Is it every UK airport? Dropping family off at Stansted today.

Certainly was at Stansted when we lived in Suffolk. That was pre Covid so nothing to do with that.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

It is indeed outrageous. They're nickel and diming us to death! All those saying "it's only £5" are clearly living in a parallel universe.

I have been mulling this over today. Another tip is to reduce spending at the airport e.g. maybe only have 7 pre-Benidorm flight pints instead of 8? Or when you are there, one less Full English? Or maybe just sunbathe instead of having a Sunday roast in the blistering heat?

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

I have been mulling this over today. Another tip is to reduce spending at the airport e.g. maybe only have 7 pre-Benidorm flight pints instead of 8? Or when you are there, one less Full English? Or maybe just sunbathe instead of having a Sunday roast in the blistering heat?

Wise words.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Im just using the 2 hour free long stay option now.
Refuse to give these money grabbing bastards any drop off/pick up tax
+ save my morning dump and have a good long relaxing 30 minute shit at the airport instead, must cost them £10 quid in air freshner
F*&K the airports

Probably more if you decide on a dirty protest

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I have been mulling this over today. Another tip is to reduce spending at the airport e.g. maybe only have 7 pre-Benidorm flight pints instead of 8? Or when you are there, one less Full English? Or maybe just sunbathe instead of having a Sunday roast in the blistering heat?

Well that's just crazy talk

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Fair enough. I see it slightly differently; airports lost millions during Covid and whilst we’d all like to pay nothing:

1) There are alternatives and the drop-off is a convenience; often in life you have pay for convenience.
2) Flying usually isn’t essential. It costs money and in the grand scheme of things 5 quid on top of all the other costs isn’t much.

My heart bleeds for a company that made hundreds of millions a year before Covid and in its latest results reported £440m+ in profit.

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

My heart bleeds for a company that made hundreds of millions a year before Covid and in its latest results reported £440m+ in profit.

Just don’t buy the service if you don’t like the price.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Just don’t buy the service if you don’t like the price.

I don't as I don't pay to drop off.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

My heart bleeds for a company that made hundreds of millions a year before Covid and in its latest results reported £440m+ in profit.

“Despite returning to profitability the airport remains cautiously optimistic about a full recovery, given the current economic uncertainty and inflationary pressures.” - it’s a tough world.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

My heart bleeds for a company that made hundreds of millions a year before Covid and in its latest results reported £440m+ in profit.

Heathrow lost 4 billion whist it was shut.

They are not back to profit

Heathrow remains loss-making despite rise in passenger numbers

Airport says people will be able to ‘travel as normal’ in peak period around coronation despite strike

www.theguardian.com

Gatwick won't be much better off

Gatwick Airport recovers strongly with £776 million revenue and more than 32 million passengers passing through in 2022

Gatwick Airport has today published its financial results for 2022, and recognising the urgent need to make net zero a reality has accelerated its commitment to be net zero for its own Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions by 2030, 10 years ahead of its previous commitment.

www.sussexexpress.co.uk

£192m profit, with £102m from parking, which I'm assuming the drop off fee is included

1 billion plus lost in covid

 

[Chicken Run]

Folk won’t like me saying this and as a regular user of the DO area at LGW I’m somewhat qualified to say that since the intro of the toll the whole experience for those that use it is far better than before it’s introduction! Sorry

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

My heart bleeds for a company that made hundreds of millions a year before Covid and in its latest results reported £440m+ in profit.

Aviation industry needs to stop making air fares way

Folk won’t like me saying this and as a regular user of the DO area at LGW I’m somewhat qualified to say that since the intro of the toll the whole experience for those that use it is far better than before it’s introduction! Sorry

Yup, this. Has sharply focused the minds of those who were previously just taking the piss. Charge them thruppence for something, they suddenly re-evaluate their circumstances

 

[Chicken Run]

Aviation industry needs to stop making air fares way

Yup, this. Has sharply focused the minds of those who were previously just taking the piss. Charge them thruppence for something, they suddenly re-evaluate their circumstances

It’s not becoming I know but I always chuckle at the amount of PAX dragging their cases down the slip road looking like refugees fleeing a war zone all to save a fiver when in all honesty once airside will be paying more than a fiver over the odds for their shit Wetherspoons breakfast and crap larger

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

It’s not becoming I know but I always chuckle at the amount of PAX dragging their cases down the slip road looking like refugees fleeing a war zone all to save a fiver when in all honesty once airside will be paying more than a fiver over the odds for their shit Wetherspoons breakfast and crap larger

Always best to go into a lounge to stay away from these types