{"id":273901,"date":"2025-07-19T05:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273901\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:19:10","slug":"birmingham-airport-drivers-face-drop-off-parking-fee-increases-how-much-is-birmingham-airport-drop-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/273901\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Airport: Drivers face drop-off parking fee increases – How much is Birmingham Airport drop-off?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drivers dropping off friends and family at UK airports are facing the highest charges on record this summer with more than half putting up their fees since last year, according to new RAC<\/a> analysis.<\/p>\n

Of the 11 airports that have increased their prices since last year, Belfast City\u2019s rise is the steepest with charges going up by a third (now \u00a34 for 10 minutes, up from \u00a33 last year), followed by Newcastle (now \u00a35 for 10 minutes, up from \u00a34 last year). London Heathrow, Edinburgh, Birmingham<\/a> and Liverpool all upped their drop-off fees by \u00a31, or 20%, and now charge \u00a36 for between 10 and 20 minutes, up from \u00a35 last year.<\/p>\n

\"BirminghamBirmingham International Airport.<\/p>\n

The remaining five airports that put their prices up are London Gatwick, Bristol, Leeds Bradford and Southampton, which now all join Stansted in charging the top rate of \u00a37 for dropping off, and Glasgow which increased its fee by 50p to \u00a36 for 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

But on a cost-per-minute basis, the most expensive airports are London Luton and Manchester, where drivers have to fork out \u00a35 to stop for just five minutes. Remarkably, these \u00a31-per-minute drop-off rates mean the cost of a return flight from Manchester to Turkey in August is cheaper on a per-minute basis.<\/p>\n

With Cardiff Airport introducing drop-off fees this year for the first time (\u00a33 for 10 minutes, the same rate as at Belfast International airport), this leaves London City as the only top 20 UK airport that still offers drivers a free drop-off close to the terminal – although anyone doing so needs to be careful not to wait in their vehicles or leave them unattended, or face a penalty.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Airports UK chief executive says \u201ccharges are a part of the airport business model\u201d<\/p>\n

Karen Dee, chief executive of trade body Airports UK, said: \u201cAll airports offer a free drop-off facility. They also have a wide variety of options to suit all passengers\u2019 needs, including premium drop-off in front of the terminal building for those who wish to use that.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere fees are charged, this helps airports manage and reduce congestion, noise, carbon emissions and air pollution for local communities, something that they are mandated to do by the Government and local authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese charges are a part of the airport business model and help enable the provision of the widest variety of flights from the airport.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cost of dropping off passengers at UK airports<\/p>\n

Top 20 airports based on total passenger numbers reported to the CAA for 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n

Belfast City Airport – \u00a34 for 10 minutes (up from \u00a33 last year)<\/p>\n

Newcastle – \u00a35 for 10 minutes (up from \u00a34 last year)<\/p>\n

London Heathrow – \u00a36 (up from \u00a35 last year)<\/p>\n

Edinburgh – \u00a36 for up to 10 minutes (up from \u00a35 last year)<\/p>\n

Birmingham<\/a> – \u00a36 for 15 minutes (up from \u00a35 last year)<\/p>\n

Liverpool – \u00a36 for up to 10 minutes (up from \u00a35 last year)<\/p>\n

London Stansted – \u00a37 for 15 minutes (no increase on last year)<\/p>\n

London Gatwick – \u00a37 for 10 minutes (up from \u00a36 last year)<\/p>\n

Bristol – \u00a37 for 10 minutes (up from \u00a36 last year)<\/p>\n

Leeds Bradford – \u00a37 for 10 minutes (up from \u00a36.50 last year)<\/p>\n

Southampton – \u00a37 for 20 minutes (up from \u00a36 last year)<\/p>\n

Glasgow – \u00a36 for 15 minutes (up from \u00a35.50 last year)<\/p>\n

London Luton – \u00a35 for five minutes<\/p>\n

Manchester – \u00a35 for five minutes (no increase on last year)<\/p>\n

Cardiff Airport – \u00a33 for 10 minutes (introduced for the first time this year)<\/p>\n

Belfast International Airport – \u00a33 for 10 minutes (no increase on last year)<\/p>\n

London City Airport – free drop-off (no waiting in vehicles or leaving them unattended)<\/p>\n

Aberdeen – \u00a35.50 for 15 minutes (no increase on last year)<\/p>\n

East Midlands – \u00a35 for 15 minutes (no increase on last year)<\/p>\n

Bournemouth – \u00a35 for 30 minutes ((no increase on last year)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers dropping off friends and family at UK airports are facing the highest charges on record this summer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,487,393,77,4884,379,12,1263,183,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-273901","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cost-of-living","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-local-hubs","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-transport","17":"tag-travel","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114878215849312935","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}