£2 plus your mark up. don't forget Tesco do not give you food at the price they pay, so add 20% to the cost i.e. extra £2.40
You have to lay out the money first.
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | birmingham airport....charges.......cheek of it |
£1 to drop off and pick up thru "rapid stop" area ("no reversing" sign on barrier....pmsl) thats £2 on every return fare then! |
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| Author: | Tulsablue [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:08 pm ] |
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£2 plus your mark up. don't forget Tesco do not give you food at the price they pay, so add 20% to the cost i.e. extra £2.40 You have to lay out the money first.
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:24 pm ] |
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how many other airports charge for vehicle access? to drop/pickup |
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:23 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: £1 to drop off and pick up thru "rapid stop" area ("no reversing" sign on barrier....pmsl)
Thats £2 on every return fare then! Oh no it's not!!! Read the small print at either the incoming barriers or other small notice boards. It's £1 FOR THE FIRST 20 MINUTES. After that it's £3 for every further 15 minutes or part thereof. So if you are picking up & your passengers are a little late, & say you are in the 'Rapid Drop-off/Pick-up' car park for 21 minutes, then it's £4; 36 minutes is £7, 51 minutes is £10, & so on. SO BE CAREFUL!!! It’s a very nice little earner, which, by some estimates, rakes in a minimum of £3.5 million a year for the airport authorities. And even all Birmingham HC & PH have to pay the same; there are no exemptions. They call it the price of security!!! That is why you see queues of out of area HC & PH outside the airport, just off the A45, (coming into Birmingham) at the beginning of the airport slip road. These drivers arrange for their return passengers to phone them directly on their mobiles when they have cleared customs & only then do the drivers proceed into the 'Rapid Drop-off/Pick-up' car park to pick-up their returning passengers. Otherwise, if you go straight into the 'Rapid Drop-off/Pick-up' car park, & your passenger's flight is delayed by, say, an hour, & then 20-30 minutes to clear customs, your 'Rapid Drop-off/Pick-up' car park charges could be about £20, or more if the flight delay is longer!!! SO BE CAREFUL!!! ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS There are two options that only local cabbies would know about, so I will share them with you; Option 1. Drop off for Birmingham International Airport at the Birmingham International Railway Station. Go into the railway station & before dropping your passengers, check as you are driving in that the monorail connecting the railway station with the airport is running by looking at the monorail bridge, to spot the monorail carriages are moving/working; 99.9% of the time they are. Drive into the railway station to the mini (painted) roundabout, make a U-turn & drop your passengers at the very back entrance doors to the railway station building. These will be the first entrance doors you come to. Just inside these entrance doors there are some lifts to the first floor of the railway station building, & usually some airport luggage trolleys. Tell your passengers to use the lift to the first floor of the railway station building; the lift is just by the monorail terminal on the first floor level. The monorail goes straight into the airport building. There is slightly less walking for the passengers using this option, than dropping off at the 'Rapid Drop-off' car park. This option is particularly useful when the airport is very busy. For return passengers, you will need to make your own specific arrangements, & if you are to wait for them at the railway station, there is a small holding/waiting car park, without a barrier, beyond the mini roundabout on the right, where you can wait for free, if you do not leave your vehicle. Option 2. Drop off at the long stay car park with first 60 minutes free & Free Shuttle Bus Service to airport terminals. Driving into the airport along the A45 from the M42 motorway, from Coventry, turn left (first exit) at the first roundabout inside the airport into the long stay car park. If you are coming along the A45 from Birmingham, at this first roundabout inside the airport take the second exit, straight across the roundabout, into the long stay car park. This roundabout is known to local cabbies as 'Dick Bird Island' as it has a large metal sculpture in the middle of the roundabout depicting flying birds. Once inside the long stay car park, drive forward to the newly brick-built waiting room for the Free Shuttle Bus, which takes passengers straight to the terminal buildings. The shuttle buses run very frequently, about every 3-5 minutes & as often as not, you will be unloading your passengers just as a shuttle bus is pulling up to load. The bus journey to the terminals is less than two minutes. The newly built waiting room was constructed because of the increased use of this service, since the airport roads to the terminals were closed after the Glasgow Airport bombings. I have used, & continue to use, both these alternative options, depending on traffic & passenger circumstances. It seems that the roads to the airport terminals are now permanently closed. And this belief appears to be correct, as there have been extra entrance & exit barriers constructed recently to the ‘Rapid Drop-off/Pick-up’ car park & it has been re-designed, with the removal of a covered walkway & re-surfacing & re-painting of parking bays to the whole car park. Also, the entrance & exit to the Novotel Hotel has been redesigned & the flow of traffic to & from the hotel has been reversed too. All this is at an estimated cost of about £500,000, so I don’t think for one minute vehicles will ever be allowed to the front of the terminals again. The exceptions are; shuttle buses, taxis that belong to the 'BASTA Exclusive Club' which are authorised to pick-up at the taxi rank for arriving passengers only, & delivery & emergency vehicles. Hope this helps. PS. If you drop off or pick up near, before or in the vicinity of the 'Rapid Drop-off/Pick-up' car park barriers, or anywhere else on the airport roads, you are quite likely to get a ticket. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 4:30 pm ] |
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gotta pick my mate up in 2 weeks, ill wait till he rings to say hes ready robbing swines. at least dick turpin had the decency to wear a mask.... |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:27 pm ] |
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You can drop off for FREE at Birmingham if you drop off at the long stay which is on your right at the entrance roundbout the £1 charge has been going for 18 months now and has been discussed on here before by me Some people when picking up at Birmingham use the short stay at the International station (connected to the terminal by the funicular railway) which is free but subject to a 20 min max waiting penalties are allegedly sent out using CCTV cameras BUT they are not pointed directly at the car park so I'm not sure if that is the case ! We usually operate a policy of asking the customers to phone us when through then nipping round to the car park although the short stay aren't too bad at Birmingham other Airports that charge you for dropping off include COVENTRY 50p !! and thre arrivals hall is a garden shed !! STANSTED ( Occassionally when they shut the ramp to the terminal) and I think they did try it at manchester not sure if they still do |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 7:56 pm ] |
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wannabeeahack wrote: how many other airports charge for vehicle access?
to drop/pickup Been about three or four years since I paid to park at Gatwick. Thank the Lord for MacDonalds. 
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| Author: | Tulsablue [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 8:07 pm ] |
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No charge to drop off YET!! at Manchester, all pick ups should now take place in car parks, costs are £2 for 30mins, £3.50 for upto 60mins. You can buy a concession card from the car parks pass office for £25 a year. This gets you a redution to £1.20 30mins and £1.80 upto 60mins, after 60 mins charges revert to normal so be careful, worth running round the block to get 2hours for £3.60 (2x1.80). You have to put cash on the card at certain machines in the terminals then just clock in / out, works quite well. BE WARNED Manchester Airport are now fitting ANPR camera's for "security" but they may well start to issue pcn's if they see you stopped on the roadway. http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/manw ... ent/pickup http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/manw ... rtStayPark |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 9:03 pm ] |
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mmm, i didnt see any of this at malaga,reus, girona or barca, nor zante or kephalonia, is it a british thing?... |
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| Author: | grandad [ Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: birmingham airport....charges.......cheek of it |
wannabeeahack wrote: £1 to drop off and pick up thru "rapid stop" area ("no reversing" sign on barrier....pmsl)
thats £2 on every return fare then! You are not supposed to use the rapid drop off car park for picking up. The clue is in the name. You are supposed to use the multi story car park for picking up. Of course this does cost more. At East Midlands airport, you can get an extra 20 minutes free if you put your ticket into the machine just before the end of the free period. You then have 20 minutes to exit the car park. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:11 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: birmingham airport....charges.......cheek of it |
grandad wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: £1 to drop off and pick up thru "rapid stop" area ("no reversing" sign on barrier....pmsl) thats £2 on every return fare then! You are not supposed to use the rapid drop off car park for picking up. The clue is in the name. You are supposed to use the multi story car park for picking up. Of course this does cost more. At East Midlands airport, you can get an extra 20 minutes free if you put your ticket into the machine just before the end of the free period. You then have 20 minutes to exit the car park. can a tourneo get in the m/storey? we flew from EMA and theres no charge for dropping off/collecting |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:17 am ] |
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edders23 wrote: COVENTRY 50p !! and thre arrivals hall is a garden shed !!
STANSTED ( Occassionally when they shut the ramp to the terminal) and I think they did try it at manchester not sure if they still do try coming back at 2am and waiting in a que that stretches outside while the bagage dont come thru, in the cold after a 2 hour wait at malaga cos thompson cancelled a plane and picked up in alicante, flew them to malaga, then we get on and we all fly back, them from alicante were NOT happy bunnies... we lined up outside zante airport too but at least it was warm... |
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| Author: | grandad [ Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: birmingham airport....charges.......cheek of it |
wannabeeahack wrote: grandad wrote: wannabeeahack wrote: £1 to drop off and pick up thru "rapid stop" area ("no reversing" sign on barrier....pmsl) thats £2 on every return fare then! You are not supposed to use the rapid drop off car park for picking up. The clue is in the name. You are supposed to use the multi story car park for picking up. Of course this does cost more. At East Midlands airport, you can get an extra 20 minutes free if you put your ticket into the machine just before the end of the free period. You then have 20 minutes to exit the car park. can a tourneo get in the m/storey? we flew from EMA and theres no charge for dropping off/collecting There is a charge at East Midlands if you go over 10 minutes in the car park. I don't know if a Tourneo can get in the multi storey, but that is the designated pick up point. I use the rapid drop off myself. If you use Birmingham regulaly you can get a special card that lets you park for upto 3 hours in car park 3 for 70 pence. My mate has one and it saves him a fortune. |
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| Author: | wannabeeahack [ Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:34 pm ] |
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so basically the motto here is "communicate", tell em to ring when ready and not before or all charges will be payable by them... |
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| Author: | grandad [ Sun Aug 31, 2008 12:38 pm ] |
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Thats what I do, unless the customer requires a meet and greet service, which costs extra, I give the customer my mobile number and tell them to ring the number when they have got their bags and then I will enter the carpark and not before. When they ring I check again that the actually have their bags because some don't understand the instruction and say "I am just collecting my bags"................No ring me when you have your bags. 
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