Parking charges for many airports have gone up this summer. It’s thought airports make £2m a day from parking charges. Does this surprise you? Are parking charges fair, should they be reduced or even free? What’s the most you’ve ever paid for parking?
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00:00Not really, given the numbers that I've seen, like Stanstair Birmingham, Bristol, I mean
00:05they've got a captive audience, I don't know, there isn't anywhere else to stop at Bristol
00:08Airport so you either stop on the red lines and pay the £100 fine or you go into the
00:13car park and pay your £6 for your 10 minutes, but I think it's, you know, there's a bit
00:19of a limit and it is, it's a bit wrong to take advantage of that monopoly that they've
00:25got on that parking spot.
00:28It doesn't surprise me, I mean I don't go abroad these days, but I hear from the family,
00:32I think just to drop someone off, does it cost about £5 or something? Well that's disgusting.
00:40You're doing the airport a favour by getting the people to the airport. I think that's
00:47absolutely terrible.
00:49Do you think that perhaps parking charges will come down or perhaps even be free?
00:54I think for dropping people off it should be free, definitely.