Airport to charge £5 for drop offs.

Just read this on Yahoo News and I think it's disgusting. What are your thoughts?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/heathrow-c...155726991.html

In the article the spokesperson for the airport clearly says that the charge is to help the company survive due to the pandemic. What are they going to do next, charge a fee for siting down on the chairs in the terminal building, or have a queue charge?

Easyjet have already done similar with introducing a fee for using the overhead lockers. If your bag cannot fit under the seat it's tough luck, you gotta pay.

How long do you think it will take before shops and other businesses start doing similar things, find ways to charge the public so they can recover lost earnings due to the pandemic.

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Considering how the holiday industry has been reduced and the lack of flights due to the Corona Virus restrictions, this is another nail in the coffin of the holiday trade. What are they thinking? Obviously trying to make up the loss of footfall at the airports by ripping punters off even further.

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Manchester airport already charges a few quid for the honour of dropping someone off. In effect, it's a mandatory tax.

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It is disgusting Dodge, but unfortunately it is just another
manisfestation of rabid capitalism ??

Donkeyman! 👎😟👎

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Obviously, airports need money to actually function. I thought that the combination of retailers paying rent, medium/long term parking and airlines paying for landing there was sufficient. Evidently not.

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Not something I worry about at the moment.

In the words of the man next to me in the AMU, well lads, being in here who would waste money on a Return Bus Ticket?

Getting to the next drinks trolley is a big thing.

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With our international borders closed completely virtually nobody is leaving Australia at all so charging £5 is not going to make the tiniest bit of difference to the International Terminal.

Domestic travel is getting back to normal but drop offs remain free and are likely to remain so. There was so much congestion at the terminal kerb side that they had to introduce a free drop off car park for visits of less than 15 minutes years ago.

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The article states that passengers can avoid paying for drop off by getting the free shuttle bus from long-stay car parks.

When we were abroad a year or so ago, our luggage was picked up at the hotel on the morning of our departure and we next saw it when we arrived back in the UK. This was excellent!! One would hope that this sort of thing could be arranged in the UK somehow, so that luggage could be handed in at the airport several hours or even the day before departure, which would make it easier in terms of getting the free shuttle or, heaven forbid, use public transport to get to the airport for one's flight carrying only the bare essentials. It would also provide security with extra time to check suitcases.