GATWICK Airport is introducing new charges for anyone being dropped off at the North Terminal. All the passengers will face a £5 charge at the airport under the new plans. This will affect all vehicles, excluding blue badge holders, at North Terminal from March 8, when staying for up to 10 minutes. Anyone staying longer will be charged £1 a minute up to £20, up to a maximum time of 30 minutes for £25. The new rules will eventually be enforced at the South Terminal but an official date has not been confirmed. Passengers who want to avoid the new charges will instead have to be dropped off at the long-stay car parks, where they will have to get a free shuttle bus to the airport. Gatwick's chief commercial officer, Jonathan Pollard, said the new scheme was to help passengers consider more “sustainable transport options”. He added: "We plan to use this charge to build on these services by using a proportion of the revenue raised to support new sustainable transport initiatives." They aren’t the only airport introducing the new charges – Heathrow Airport is in talks to start charging drivers £5 to drop off passengers, in a desperate attempt… Read full this story
- Self-isolation loophole: Thousands of international passengers landing in Australia are allowed to take domestic flights WITHOUT being quarantined - as coronavirus cases hit 299
- Passenger arrested on charge of non-cooperation at airport
- Cruise ship passengers bused to flights out of Honolulu
- After police shoot him, North Carolina man faces charges
- 'Shoot Us': Air Passengers Snap at Delhi Airport Staff Over Passport Tussle for Coronavirus Tests
- Number of flights drops more than 40% in a fortnight as travellers are urged to stay at home and airlines ground planes amid coronavirus pandemic
- North Dakota felon pleads guilty in Nevada drug, gun case
- Running low on battery? This power bank rental lets you charge on the move
- Italy calls in military to enforce lockdown as coronavirus crisis intensifies in north
- Police in North Macedonia find 36 migrants packed in truck
Gatwick to charge passengers £5 for being dropped off at the North Terminal have 326 words, post on www.thesun.co.uk at February 11, 2021. This is cached page on Europe Breaking News. If you want remove this page, please contact us.