Pick-up point back at Glasgow Airport
20.03.08
Passengers can be picked up and dropped off outside the Glasgow Airport terminal building from today for the first time since last summer's terror attack. A new £150,000 pick-up and drop-off zone will end the long walk that passengers have faced from St Andrew's Drive since the restrictions introduced after the terror attack last June (St Andrew's Drive would remain as a secondary drop-off point, to be used at peak times).
Passengers will be able to wait in the new barrier zone, directly opposite the terminal building, for up to 10 minutes without charge. People waiting longer than 10 minutes will still need to use the airport's short-stay car parks.
The new zone can accommodate up to 60 cars after a total of 160 parking bays in the ground floor of the airport's multi-storey car park were stripped out to make way for the facility, part of a £2 million plan to improve passenger access to and from the airport. It has four designated spaces for people with reduced mobility, and special help points have also been set up. Parking wardens will be on hand to give £20 fines to anyone caught abusing the new zone.
Gordon Dewar, managing director of Glasgow Airport, said: ‘The drop-off zone on St Andrew's Drive has served us well since the attack, and we have invested heavily to improve passenger facilities along this route. However, we fully understand passengers want to pick up and drop off as close to the terminal as security constraints allow.'
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