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BBCThis is a warm and sticky Friday in the middle of the summer holidays and cars are flooding the road to Edinburgh Airport.
There are some places to stop, but a steady stream of almost every late-by-by-drivers wait for friends and loved ones touching their holidays.
They all have been parked in a bid in a bid to defeat the so-called “kiss-fly” allegations in the official drop-off zone, in half a mile from the entrance of the terminal building.
Research conducted by RAC released this week found that more than half of the country’s busiest airports have increased the drop-off fees in the last 12 months.
Instead, the driver here to defeat the system, waiting in the street and crane along the Eastfield Road that their passengers have come.
They then drive and pick up a few hundred meters away towards Moxi or Hilton Hotels as they leave the airport premises, exit in a hurry to avoid risk for parking on double yellow lines.
Close to Moxi, next to a farm gate from a grass, 52-year-old Caroline O’Brien, waiting for her husband and children, is waiting in a delay-bye after returning to Paris from a holiday.
She says that she was first charged for 30 minutes in the drop-off zone and decided not to take any chance this time.
“You don’t know if the aircraft is going to be quick or late or I don’t want them to stand around,” she says.
“For pick-up and drop-off, I think a pair pound [would be fair]You only have a few minutes to get their cases and then back into the car and again. ,
Drivers reaching through the Eastfield Road pass three rounds on the way to the main terminal, the nearest of which leads them to one-way system, which means they have to pass through the drop-off zone.
There is no indication on the approach to inform them about the allegations, although they are already inside the drop-off zone.
The drivers pay after exiting the drop-off area.
London Gatvik, Bristol, Leeds Bradford, Southampton and Stanstad charged the top rate of £ 7 in the RAC survey.
Edinburgh is a level of charging £ 6 for the initial drop off with London Heathro, Birmingham, Liverpool John Lennon and Glasgow.
In contrast, nine out of the 10 busiest airports in the European Union has no drop-off fees.
Switzerland’s 32 -year -old Rontom TSCHOPP left just a friend on the terminal, but was unaware that there would be a fee to do so.
He says that his local airports, in Basel, did not charge for the same service.
He says: “I was a bit flarened to be honest, because we do not have so in Switzerland.
“I think it makes a form of a form to do small things like leaving your friends. If I had known about the fees, we might not have been such a heartfelt goodbye, it would have been: ‘No, now go, have extra fees’.”
Edinburgh Airport has other road links along the city center through bus services, while the tram network also stops out.
It is about half a mile (0.8 km) from the main terminal building, beyond the tram line and about half a mile (0.8 km) from a car rental service.
The driver can park there for free for 30 minutes, but after an hour the cost of £ 10 and £ 18 is between one and three hours.
Near another side Street, near an empty commercial business, Sheela McPeli is waiting for her sisters to gather from her holiday at Albukera in Portugal.
She says the cost of the drop-off zone is “frightening” and despite both dynamics issues, plans to take their sisters at a free drop-off point.
Sheela, 79, says, “This is just greedy. You pay enough for your flights and when you reach there, you get a tea or coffee, so they are getting money like this.”
“A little bit of you can park it, but it’s all very well if you are young and fit, but one of my sisters has a sore throat, the other is waiting for a hip operation, so it is difficult for them.”
Inside the charge drop-off area, a multi-storey car park provides a roof and shade from the hot afternoon sun.
45 -year -old Gavin Marshal is waiting for some time for his in -laws to fly from London, before he goes back to Sterling.
He says that he did not see the allegations before parking.
He says: “This is a little forced recovery, a little joke £ 1 per minute.”
“Flat £ 6 I think it is appropriate, it seems slightly foolish, it is slightly more.”
Meanwhile, 31 -year -old taxi driver Dean Cars says the charge has an impact on customers.
He says: “Every trip is £ 6 more expensive.
“I pay it, but I take it back from the customer, which is ridiculous, it goes from the customer to the airport for me.
“The airport spin it as they care about pollution, but they do not. They are a business and they want to make money.”
Edinburgh Airport refused to comment on contact by BBC News, but said that A free drop-off area was available,
He said that passengers could choose whether to use free or paid areas.
Industry bodies, Airports UK, said that all the hubs offered a drop-off options free from terminals.
It said “Park and Ride” features, where people can leave their car and take a bus at the airport.
A police Scotland spokesman said that he “advised” the motorists regularly “advice” in the airport premises, but unable to be specific on it.
He said: “Where necessary, appropriate action will be taken.”
