Brizzle airport (BRS) is fiver for 10 mins in the drop and go. For free options - you can have 60mins in the waiting by the car rental and your travellers go on the free bus (8mins trip, every 15mins); alternatively you can go down the dead end road opposite the airport entrance and get out there, jaywalk across the edge of the roundabout and then walk the 500m down to the terminal. Any guess as to which is most frequent...
Ahh the romance of air travel
if you fancy getting aerated about an airport charge try the euphemistically named norwich airport development charge
it's a bit of a local legend. unavoidable 10 quid to enter departures per adult. no noticeable developments have resulted.
Why would I use public transport to the airport? (Glasgow) Wait for bus. 10m. 45m journey to city centre. Average 7m wait for airport bus. 15m bus journey. 1hr15 total.
Or book private hire 25m £25. Adding the best part of an hour to a day's travel. I imagine the Edinburgh Tram is the same. Unless you happen to live close to the line cars or taxis are more convenient.
Rip Off? Actually the charges at Glasgow Airport have improved things. When there was free drop off it was abused by people parking there for long periods of time waiting for arrivals and blocking it up.
Now when I drop off, no problem. When picking up the passenger phones me when they are 2 minutes away from the drop off/pick up area and I drive in from free parking 2 minutes away. Up to 5 minutes - £5. Worth it.
I take it the OP has never had to do this, or at least hasn't had to do it since the **** who tried to ram-raid the Glasgow Airport building?
Glasgow is a shit show but Prestwick is worse, it doesn't tell you it's charged until you hit the barrier and then your only option is to either go through or reverse back into the roundabout.
No free allowance either.
I have my own solutions that, like others, I'm not going to share in public.
