Airport drivers try to beat drop-off charges by parking in laybys

In the middle of summer holidays, a warm and sticky Friday and cars are flooding the Edinburgh airport approach.

There are a few places to stop, but in almost every Layby, a stable driver’s stream touches his friends and loved ones from their holidays.

All of them were parked at the entrance of the terminal building to overcome the “Kiss and Flight” fees in the official release zone.

Research by RAC this week, more than half of the most busy airports of the country has increased the quit fees in the last 12 months.

Instead, the drivers here want to defeat the system waiting in the corner and cracks along the Eastfield Road for a message that passengers come.

Then it takes a few hundred meters towards Moxy or Hilton hotels and they take them as they leave the airport complex, hurrying out to prevent the risk of fine to park on double yellow lines.

Near Moxy, next to a grass threshold, next to a farm door, 52 -year -old Caroline O’Brien is waiting for a Layby for her husband and her children after returning to Paris from a holiday.

He said he had been accused of £ 24 in the quit area for less than 30 minutes and decided not to get any chance this time.

“You don’t know if the plane will be early or late, and I don’t want it to stand around, or he says.

“For pick-up and quitting, I think there are a few kilos [would be fair]. You’re just there for a few minutes to get their case and then away from the car and again and again. “

Through the Eastfield Road, the approaching drivers pass through three intersections on the way to the main terminal, the closest relatives lead them to a one -way system, which means that they need to pass through the quit area.

There is no sign about the approach to inform them about the accusations, but there is when they are in the quit area.

Drivers pay after leaving the release area.

London Gatwick, Bristol, Leeds Bradford, Southampton and Stansted received the highest rate of £ 7 in the RAC survey.

Edinburgh, London Heathrow, Birmingham, Liverpool John Lennon and Glasgow with £ 6 for the first quit.

On the other hand, nine of the 10 most dense airports in the European Union do not have a quit.

32 -year -old Rontom Tschopp from Switzerland left a friend at the terminal, but he was unaware that there would be an accusation to do it.

He says the local airport in Basel does not charge the same service.

He says: “I was a little surprised to be honest, because we don’t have it in Switzerland.

“I think it creates some kind of reluctance to do small things like leaving your friends. If I knew the wages, we would probably not say goodbye to such a heart: ‘No, now, there are extra fees’.”

Edinburgh Airport has other road connections through bus services, while the tram network stands outside.

There is also a release zone from the main terminal building, opposite the tram line and near a car rental service.

Drivers can park there for 30 minutes for free, but after that, the cost of £ 18 for 10 to one hour and one to three hours.

Shiela McPhely, who is on another side street near an empty commercial business, is waiting for her sisters from their holidays in Albubfeira in Portugal.

The cost of the quit area is “terrible”, and both of them are planning to buy their sisters at the point of release despite mobility problems.

“Only greedy. You pay enough for your flights and you get a tea or coffee when you enter there, so they get money from you in this way,” he says.

“You can park a free park, but if you are young and in the form very good, but one of my sisters has a painful back, the other is waiting for a hip operation, so it’s hard for them.”

When it returns into the charging release area, a multi -storey car park provides a roof and shadow from its sun in the afternoon afternoon.

45 -year -old Gavin Marshall is waiting for a flight from London before he returns to his mother -in -law Stirling.

He says he doesn’t notice the accusation before parking.

He says: “A little seized, a little joke a little joke per minute.”

“Flat 6 £ 6, I think it’s fair, it looks a little stupid per minute, a little too much.”

Meanwhile, taxi driver Dean Carse 31 says the accusation has an impact on customers.

He says: “Every journey is 6 £ more expensive.

“I’m paying, but I’m going back from the ridiculous customer, he goes to the airport from the customer to me.

“They turn the airport as if they care about pollution, but they don’t. They want to make a job and money.”

Edinburgh Airport refrained from commenting when contacting BBC News, but he said. There was a free release area.

They also added that passengers can choose whether they would use free or paid areas.

Industrial organ, Airports, England, said that all HUBs offer more release options than terminals.

“Park and Thousand Facilities, where people can leave their cars and get on a bus to the airport, were provided.

A Police Spokesman said that he regularly gave “advice” to drivers in the airport complex, but that this was not clear.

“Appropriate action will be taken if necessary.”