Blue badge holders should not pay airport drop-off fees, charity says

The disability aid organization said that all the UK airports should stop charging to blue badge holders because they were left close to the terminals.

A few people with blue rosettes contacted the BBC after the news that more than half of the most intense airports have. SO MUCHED “KISS AND FLOOR” fees In some cases it is as high as 7 £.

Many airports already offer discounts or waive the wage for disabled drivers, but the blue rosette owners say the system is complex and inconsistent.

Graham Footer, General Manager of Disabled Motoring UK, said that some airports “allow greedy to cloudy the decisions of greed” and argue that people with disabilities do not have to pay the accusation at all.

“Disabled customers deserve to be treated with respect and dignity, and as soon as they arrive,” he said.

The BBC contacted the 20 largest airport in the UK to verify the policies of leaving for blue badges.

London City does not charge a quit for any passenger.

Gatwick, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Heathrow, Liverpool John Lennon and Manchester receive a cessation fee, but blue badges do not need to pay.

Luton, Glasgow, Belfast International, Belfast City, East Midlands, Aberdeen and Southampton, blue rosette owners in the same way to use the closest to the airport with other passengers. However, they all offer a special release parking lot for the blue rosette owners elsewhere.

For Glasgow and Aberdeen, this park is free if only the blue badge holders are left by family or friends – not left by the taxi.

All airports offer more free leaving options than terminals, such as “park and driving” facilities where people can leave their cars and get on a bus on the airport.

Bristol, Leeds Bradford and Bournemouth charge to leave Blue badgers, but allow them to stay longer than other passengers for a lower fee.

Bristol demands £ 7 for 40 minutes, Leeds Bradford collects £ 7 for 60 minutes, and Bournemouth receives £ 5 for four hours because he says that disabled passengers “require more time”.

Only Cardiff, Newcastle and Stanstead charge the same fee without any discount.

Cardiff pays £ 3 for 10 minutes, Newcastle 10 minutes for 10 minutes, and the Stanstead gets 15 minutes 7 £ 7.

Airport representing the industry, England, said that the best release of blue badgers depends on the order of the airport.

“No option is ideal in all airports, so the offer will be different to optimize access to each airport,” he said.

He advised passengers to check the website of the airport before traveling to determine the best release location.

If a disabled driver shows his blue badge at the airport per day, most of the airports that waive the quitting fees do this.

However, for Heathrow and Liverpool, exemption must be requested online or after traveling online or on the phone. Heathrow says It may take five days to complete online process to confirm blue badges.Although he usually tells the BBC that it lasts 48 hours.

67 -year -old James Williams from London, these services are difficult to use.

“I have a blue badge and I have to pay because I am not a computer literacy,” he says, “You have to jump out of the circles to get this discount.”

51 -year -old Jonathan Cassar from London says that the complex nature of the online recording is “disabled people who need to be left at the terminal can not be spontaneously as others can do.”

Heathrow said that he tried to make the Blue Blobet registration process as “as simple as possible” and advised anyone who requires urgent records to approve the phone.

Liverpool, “to minimize the abuse of the blue badge system” to minimize “online approval, he said.

He doesn’t think that all blue badgers are accused of quitting the airport.

Gordon Richardson, the Chairman of the British Children’s Performing Scholarship Board, says that he has a blue badge, but he says that he is “contrary to the principle of disabled people who pay the same of non -disabled people.

Most importantly, the area is accessible and easy to use.

Blue is inviting the rosette owners to communicate with airports before traveling, so that the airports can be ready to help them and get their discounts or free parking lots.

Most of the airports in which the BBC contacted, said that blue badge policies are taken into consideration for their needs in consultation with disability groups.