Edinburgh Airport pick-up/drop-off

[Jim44]

I believe the minimum charge for drop-off is £1 for up to five minutes and £3.90 for pick-up for up to 15 minutes. I believe also that there are separate areas for each. What’s to stop you going to the drop-off area and picking someone up for a couple of minutes and just paying £1. Bit of a con is it not?

[Ryan91]

I believe the minimum charge for drop-off is £1 for up to five minutes and £3.90 for pick-up for up to 15 minutes. I believe also that there are separate areas for each. What’s to stop you going to the drop-off area and picking someone up for a couple of minutes and just paying £1. Bit of a con is it not?

You can pick people up from the drop off area no problem, and I believe that Edinburgh Airport encourage this, I have done it several times for family members coming back from Holiday and have never had any problems.

I've always parked up at the park and ride at Ingliston and then departing the P&R once I get a call from those that I need to pick up, so that I'm in and out with a minimum of fuss and no worries about spending any longer than a couple of minutes in there.

[RyeSloan]

I believe the minimum charge for drop-off is £1 for up to five minutes and £3.90 for pick-up for up to 15 minutes. I believe also that there are separate areas for each. What’s to stop you going to the drop-off area and picking someone up for a couple of minutes and just paying £1. Bit of a con is it not?

I think you are being a bit too literal.

[Jim44]

You can pick people up from the drop off area no problem, and I believe that Edinburgh Airport encourage this, I have done it several times for family members coming back from Holiday and have never had any problems.

I've always parked up at the park and ride at Ingliston and then departing the P&R once I get a call from those that I need to pick up, so that I'm in and out with a minimum of fuss and no worries about spending any longer than a couple of minutes in there.

That’s useful to know. Thanks Ryan91

[JeMeSouviens]

That’s useful to know. Thanks Ryan91

It’s fine if you time it right. But if you go beyond 5 minutes in the drop off the price shoots up dramatically.

[overdrive]

It’s fine if you time it right. But if you go beyond 5 minutes in the drop off the price shoots up dramatically.

That’s why you wait in the bus/tram park and ride then wait for the travellers to call once they’ve come through customs.

[Jim44]

I think you are being a bit too literal.

I think it’s the Airport administration that’s being a bit too literal. Why differentiate between the two areas? And why charge more for one than the other, when the objective is to get in and out as fast as possible?

[RyeSloan]

I think it’s the Airport administration that’s being a bit too literal. Why differentiate between the two areas? And why charge more for one than the other, when the objective is to get in and out as fast as possible?

Ahh OK I ain't gonna argue with you but they differentiate the areas by time and therefore cost as on average it takes less time to drop someone off than it does pick them up.

There is no pick up Police in the drop off area though so bash on [emoji12]

[haagsehibby]

My wife picked me up last week. Her first time at Edinburgh Airport with the car, she parked in the Mid Stay car park as she was unfamliar with the set up. £6.30 for 0-30 minutes and £9.30 for 30-60 minutes. An absolute rip off !! I showed her how to use the P+R when she dropped me off yesterday.

[snooky]

My wife picked me up last week. Her first time at Edinburgh Airport with the car, she parked in the Mid Stay car park as she was unfamliar with the set up. £6.30 for 0-30 minutes and £9.30 for 30-60 minutes. An absolute rip off !! I showed her how to use the P+R when she dropped me off yesterday.

Robbery is the word for it. Shame on those Shylocks.

[Pete]

Contrary to popular belief, the airport don’t like you picking up in the £1 dropping off area when you should be paying £3.90. It’s their land, they can charge what they like and they have byelaws to protect them.

The public don’t do anything about it because they don’t know how. The cabbies won’t because if they aren’t arguing with each other they’re scared in case they’re kicked out the airport. The politicians and councillors...you tell me.

There is a free drop off area where you get a shuttle bus to the terminal. If everyone used that then the £1 drop off area wouldn’t work. That’s the only immediate way I can think of that would put a spanner in their works.

[overdrive]

As someone who has used the Ingliston Park & Ride trick many a time, both as a passenger and as the picker-up-er, I'm amazed the Council (or TfE or whoever else runs the P&Rs) hasn't tried to crack down on it, e.g. by requiring some sort of proof that you've used the bus or tram to get out of the car park. After all, you aren't using it for its intended use either. Plus, it is the sort of thing you'd imagine the Airport and Council would be in cahoots over.

[snooky]

As someone who has used the Ingliston Park & Ride trick many a time, both as a passenger and as the picker-up-er, I'm amazed the Council (or TfE or whoever else runs the P&Rs) hasn't tried to crack down on it, e.g. by requiring some sort of proof that you've used the bus or tram to get out of the car park. After all, you aren't using it for its intended use either. Plus, it is the sort of thing you'd imagine the Airport and Council would be in cahoots over.
Yep. An excellent opportunity to make the local populus's lives more miserable is being completely overlooked by the Council. Absolutely shocking state of affairs.

[overdrive]

Yep. An excellent opportunity to make the local populus's lives more miserable is being completely overlooked by the Council. Absolutely shocking state of affairs.

It would also encourage more people to cycle to the airport (with their heavy suitcase in tow) just like the Council wants.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-airport-urged-to-boost-public-transport-1-4381918

[snooky]

It would also encourage more people to cycle to the airport (with their heavy suitcase in tow) just like the Council wants.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-airport-urged-to-boost-public-transport-1-4381918

And there's me thinking you were just being funny. :rolleyes:

Question: How do these Councillors travel to the airport when flying out on their juntas? :hmmm:
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[RyeSloan]

It would also encourage more people to cycle to the airport (with their heavy suitcase in tow) just like the Council wants.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/transport/edinburgh-airport-urged-to-boost-public-transport-1-4381918

Here's an insight into the council approach:

“Car-parking targets should not be based on demand forecasts. The masterplan should be setting out ways in which to make car trips to the airport less attractive to suppress demand.”

Yes of course! Let's make getting to the airport by car harder and don't make plans on expected demand, that would just be stupid!

And they then come to the brilliant conclusion that linking the airport directly to the nations main motorway is just silly and we should be cycling there instead...

[snooky]

I sometimes fret for the future of mankind - I really do.

Cooncil meeting -> :ostrich::ostrich::ostrich::ostrich::ostrich:

[JeMeSouviens]

Here's an insight into the council approach:

“Car-parking targets should not be based on demand forecasts. The masterplan should be setting out ways in which to make car trips to the airport less attractive to suppress demand.”

Yes of course! Let's make getting to the airport by car harder and don't make plans on expected demand, that would just be stupid!

And they then come to the brilliant conclusion that linking the airport directly to the nations main motorway is just silly and we should be cycling there instead...

It's like how the fact that a perfectly good railway line runs right past the airport has always completely escaped their notice. :rolleyes:

[RyeSloan]

It's like how the fact that a perfectly good railway line runs right past the airport has always completely escaped their notice. :rolleyes:

That was the SNP's decision to cancel the rail link....made at the same time as agreeing to the the trams [emoji33]

[Bristolhibby]

Trams have worked for me in the past.

Also been known to get the bus.

My uncle is dropping me off just before Christmas after the Ross County game.

J

[overdrive]

That was the SNP's decision to cancel the rail link....made at the same time as agreeing to the the trams [emoji33]

Is the line that goes past it not just the Fife Circle line? The EARL project was to include several different lines and involved tunnelling under the runway and terminal. What I don’t understand is why they didn’t build the Gateway station where the line goes past the airport and then have some sort of link to the terminal from there rather than where it is currently located.

[JeMeSouviens]

That was the SNP's decision to cancel the rail link....made at the same time as agreeing to the the trams [emoji33]

Yeah, they cancelled the super-duper station under the runway and spur lines connecting the Glasgow line to the Forth Bridge which would have cost a ****** fortune. All it needed (and has for decades) was a station on the FB line and a pedestrian tunnel to the terminal.

[JeMeSouviens]

Is the line that goes past it not just the Fife Circle line? The EARL project was to include several different lines and involved tunnelling under the runway and terminal. What I don’t understand is why they didn’t build the Gateway station where the line goes past the airport and then have some sort of link to the terminal from there rather than where it is currently located.

:agree: simples.

[RyeSloan]

Yeah, they cancelled the super-duper station under the runway and spur lines connecting the Glasgow line to the Forth Bridge which would have cost a ****** fortune. All it needed (and has for decades) was a station on the FB line and a pedestrian tunnel to the terminal.

So they did indeed cancel the project that would have connected most if not all of Scotlands major cities to the airport.

That may have been fair enough on cost grounds (although if you want world class infrastructure and public transport then it rarely comes cheap) but it appears then the replacement proposal put the station in the wrong place.

Double fail?

[JeMeSouviens]

So they did indeed cancel the project that would have connected most if not all of Scotlands major cities to the airport.

That may have been fair enough on cost grounds (although if you want world class infrastructure and public transport then it rarely comes cheap) but it appears then the replacement proposal put the station in the wrong place.

Double fail?

If you're desperate for a party political point, then yes, SNP fail. But the railway line has run along the perimeter of the airport since it was built, so everyone's failed there.

[RyeSloan]

If you're desperate for a party political point, then yes, SNP fail. But the railway line has run along the perimeter of the airport since it was built, so everyone's failed there.

I'm not desperate for anything...it came out of chat about the councils odd approach to cars going to the airport. I was merely pointing out who cancelled EARL and was responsible for the alternative proposal that others stated was not the correct solution.

That responsibility would it seems quite clearly be the SNP government of the time.

[lord bunberry]

I'm not desperate for anything...it came out of chat about the councils odd approach to cars going to the airport. I was merely pointing out who cancelled EARL and was responsible for the alternative proposal that others stated was not the correct solution.

That responsibility would it seems quite clearly be the SNP government of the time.
I’m sure the SNP wanted to scrap both of them, but we’re under pressure from the other parties to approve at least one of them. As they were in a minority government, they decided to approve the trams. I think that was the wrong choice, I would’ve scrapped both of them.
I think this was one of the first big decisions they had to make as a governing party.

[RyeSloan]

I’m sure the SNP wanted to scrap both of them, but we’re under pressure from the other parties to approve at least one of them. As they were in a minority government, they decided to approve the trams. I think that was the wrong choice, I would’ve scrapped both of them.
I think this was one of the first big decisions they had to make as a governing party.

Earl was slated at £600m...accepting it would have cost more I'm pretty sure it would have been of more use and of longer term benefit to many more people than the trams.

That said it's easy with hindsight knowing the full cost of the teams fiasco to say they backed the wrong horse.

[snooky]

Earl was slated at £600m...accepting it would have cost more I'm pretty sure it would have been of more use and of longer term benefit to many more people than the trams.

That said it's easy with hindsight knowing the full cost of the teams fiasco to say they backed the wrong horse.

I think they were duped - the Dupe of EARL if you like :cool2:

[JeMeSouviens]

Earl was slated at £600m...accepting it would have cost more I'm pretty sure it would have been of more use and of longer term benefit to many more people than the trams.

That said it's easy with hindsight knowing the full cost of the teams fiasco to say they backed the wrong horse.

The SNP commissioned Audit Scotland to report on both projects when they took office in 2007.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/20_6_2007edinburghtransportreport.pdf


The current anticipated final cost of Phase 1 in its entirety is £593.8 million and estimated project
costs have been subjected to robust testing.


Some slippage in the project has occurred but tie is taking action to ensure that Phase 1a can be
operational by early 2011.


Arrangements in place to manage the project appear sound

As you said, isn't hindsight wonderful? :doh:

[ronaldo7]

Re writing of history on here is, well, hindsight.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12779952.Tram_scheme_goes_ahead_after_SNP_defeat/

[snooky]

Re writing of history on here is, well, hindsight.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12779952.Tram_scheme_goes_ahead_after_SNP_defeat/

Interesting find, Ron7.

(Here's your greeny link)
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12779952.Tram_scheme_goes_ahead_after_SNP_defeat/

[RyeSloan]

Re writing of history on here is, well, hindsight.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12779952.Tram_scheme_goes_ahead_after_SNP_defeat/

Ahh I had forgotten the SNP wanted to kill the trams as well...shame they lost that one!

[ronaldo7]

Interesting find, Ron7.

(Here's your greeny link)
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12779952.Tram_scheme_goes_ahead_after_SNP_defeat/


:aok:

Ahh I had forgotten the SNP wanted to kill the trams as well...shame they lost that one!

:tee hee:

[EH6 Hibby]

Interesting find, Ron7.

(Here's your greeny link)
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12779952.Tram_scheme_goes_ahead_after_SNP_defeat/

That’s what I remember happening, I thought I was imagining it after some of the comments on here.