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UK airport drop-off guides

Five guides, one verified dataset: how to pay a post-pay charge, the ranked price index, where drop-off is still free, how pick-up really works, and the Blue Badge rules airport by airport.

Verified: · airports' own published charges

By · How we check

Every guide, built from the verified dataset

These aren't blog posts — each guide is generated from the same verified dataset as the comparison table, so when a fee changes, the guides change with it. Every figure carries the date it was last checked and traces to an airport's own published charges.

Park or get dropped off?For every airport: when a lift beats parking, when it doesn't, and live parking prices to compare.Christmas and New Year at the airportDrop-off charges and payment deadlines over the bank holidays, trains and taxis on Christmas Day, and the car parks that close for winter.Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man airportsNo drop-off charges, but strict no-waiting rules: the free parking windows, every car park price and the buses at the island airports.UK airport parking prices comparedTurn-up prices for a week, three days and a fortnight in the cheapest official car park at every airport we cover, side by side.Glasgow Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.Edinburgh Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.Newcastle Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.Aberdeen Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.Exeter Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.Southampton Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.Bristol Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.Birmingham Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.London Gatwick Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.London Luton Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.Leeds Bradford Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.London Heathrow Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.Manchester Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.London Stansted Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.East Midlands Airport parkingEvery official car park with its turn-up prices, the free hour, and cheaper ways to park.Statistics & dataThe 27-of-29 charging, the £6.74 average, the +28% typical rise — ready to quote, free to reuse.How to pay a drop-off chargeEvery post-pay airport's payment portal, phone line, deadline and penalty — plus a step-by-step page for each.UK airport drop-off price indexAll 29 airports ranked, the £6.74 average, per-minute rates and every recorded rise.Free airport drop-offThe 2 airports still free at the terminal, every free alternative, and the re-entry traps.Airport pick-up chargesWhere collecting costs the same, the five airports that differ, and free places to wait.The drop-off charges review and the £5 capWhat Parliament has actually agreed: a review written into the Civil Aviation Bill, not a cap. The clause, the timeline and what a cap would mean.Coach and minibus chargesWhat minibuses and coaches pay to drop off and pick up, the permits and bookings, and each airport's seat limits.Blue Badge drop-off rulesWho exempts, who gives free time elsewhere, who charges regardless — and how to register.

Looking for one airport?

Each of the 29 airports has its own guide covering the exact charge, where the drop-off zone is, how and when to pay, pick-up rules, the free alternative and its Blue Badge position — all from the airport directory. For data reuse, see the AI & data page, the embeddable table, or the press page.

Guides: your questions

What do these guides cover?

27 guides built from the same dataset: how to pay at every post-pay (ANPR) airport, every drop-off charge ranked, the free airports and free alternatives, pick-up rules, Blue Badge arrangements, parking prices and in-depth parking guides, coach and minibus charges, Christmas travel, the island airports and the statistics.

Method & corrections

Every charge on this page is checked against the airport's own published charges and stamped with the date we checked it. We re-verify the full dataset quarterly, and after any reported change — see how we check every figure and who maintains the site.

Spotted an error? Email hello@airportdropoffcharges.co.uk — corrections are made visibly and dated. The dataset behind this page is free to reuse with attribution: JSON · CSV (CC BY 4.0) — about the data.