From the FAQs

Taxis will be able to add the drop off charge to the taxi fare as many already do when picking passengers up from the short stay car parks.

So looks like it applies to Taxis

Edited by Apollofuzz (20 Jul 2021 2.06pm)

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Thanks mate & also, thank you acepal. Thought this would be the case, just needed to verify it. Oh well, need to re-adjust flights Dep & Arr grr

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

About a month ago my boss decided to visit so we could go see a few customers together, he flew into Gatwick, I picked him up, didn't use the car park to save time just collected him from the arrivals lane, the visit went well, about a week later I got a letter from the parking people saying that due to covid their revenue was down & they had to find other ways to make money, my fine was reduced to £15.00 as a goodwill gesture because it was a relatively new / unknown charge / tarif - but underlining that I should have seen the signs in the approach road.

I was pretty miffed -

Be very interesting to see if there are any Court cases around this.

I worked at Gatwick for a while and the excuse that was always used about them not enforcing the drop-off zones in the way they should be (I can tell you some HORROR stories about the incompetence of the people who run it) was that the drop off zones in both the North and the South were actually public roads. They simply could not issue their own tickets and up until a couple of years ago had the last official Police run traffic wardens in place.

n fact, one of the main problems was HGV lorry drivers not using commercial sat navs and trying to drive through both terminals with the South, in particular, an utter nightmare because of it.

And now we get this.

Gatwick is essentially a shopping centre with a run-way attached. That is the mentality of the people who run it. You need to stop thinking of it primarily as an airport.

And like all such places, all they ever want to do is somehow stiff people who park there.

Suspect this is purely about them being desperate to somehow bump up revenue and willing to take the risk of all the tickets issued being turned over at a later stage.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.