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UK airports are charging more for drop offs than flights – but you can avoid the fees


But in fact, many airports offer a cheap or free alternative.

For example, London Luton Airport offers two hours of free parking in its long-stay car park – but passengers will have to get a shuttle bus from the car park to the terminal door.

Stansted also has a free option but this is located in its mid-stay car park, which is also a shuttle bus away from the terminal.

Birmingham Airport does have free drop off areas in its Drop Off Car Park for up to 30 minutes, but this car park is a five to ten minute walk from the terminal.

Some airports have a free drop off for up to ten minutes.

These are Cardiff, Inverness and Norwich, which don’t charge anything for the first ten minutes to drop people off or pick them up.

London Gatwick, London Heathrow and London City allow ten minutes to drop off for free, but does not allow people to be collected.

Here, Sun Online Travel reveal the full list of airports that have drop-off costs and where you can go so you don’t have to pay a penny:

Aberdeen: Pay £2 for up to ten minutes outside the main terminal, increasing to £30 for one hour.

Drop off free for 15 minutes in long stay car park, which has a free shuttle bus to the terminal.

Belfast International: Pay £1 for up to ten minutes, or £35 for anything over an hour.

Drop off free for 15 minutes in long stay car park, with a six minute walk to the terminal.

Birmingham: Pay £3 for the first 15 minutes to drop off outside the terminal

Free drop-off car park for 30 minutes, with a five to ten minute walk.

Bournemouth: Pay £35 for the first 30 minutes to drop off outside the terminal.

No free option.

Bristol: Pay £1 outside the main terminal if you stay for less than ten minutes, or £6 for up to an hour.

No free option.

Doncaster Sheffield: Drop off outside the terminal costs £3 up to 15 minutes or £12 up to two hours.

Short stay car park is free for 15 minutes and just a few minutes’ walk from departures.

Glasgow: £2 for up to 15 minutes, or £45 for an hour.

Long stay car park free for dropping off for up to 30 minutes with a shuttle bus to the terminal.

Glasgow Prestwick: Drop off costs £2 for 30 minutes.

No free option.

East Midlands: Costs £2 for first five minutes, with £1 for every minute after.

Free parking for one hour in the “long stay one” car park, just five minutes by bus.

Edinburgh: Costs £2 for the first five minutes, with the maximum one hour costing £15.

Long stay car park is free for the first ten minutes with a shuttle bus.

Exeter: Costs £1 for first 30 minutes

Free ten minutes in Car Park 4 with a shuttle bus to the airport.

Leeds Bradford: Drop off outside the terminal costs £3 for the first 30 minutes, costing up to £9 for the first hour.

One hour free parking, which is less than four minute walk from the terminal.

Liverpool: Pay £3 up to 20 minutes to drop off outside the terminal.

There’s a drop off car park a ten minute walk from the terminal which is free for 40 minutes.

Luton: Up to 10 minutes costs £3, costing £1 for every minute extra.

Free drop off in its mid-term car park, a five minute bus ride from the terminal.

Stansted: Drop off costs £4 for ten minutes or £25 over 15 minutes.

An hour’s free parking in its mid-stay car park. Then there’s a free shuttle bus to the terminal which takes five minutes.

Manchester: One of the most expensive, it is £4 for the first ten minutes and £25 fee for exceeding this.

To beat the charges, there’s a free drop-off area with a free shuttle bus to the terminal.

Newcastle: Costs £2 for the first ten minutes, or £7 for up to an hour.

Free parking at the “short stay two” car park for 15 minutes, a two minute walk from the terminal.

Southampton: Pay £2 for the first 15 minutes.

Half an hour free parking at the long stay car park, with a free shuttle bus that takes five minutes to the terminal.





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