If you drive to the airport to pick someone up, do you park your car then walk in to meet them or go to the curb outside baggage area? (If baggage, do you wind up driving around the loop a few times?)
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Everyone likes to be greeted, so I park my car and wait by the baggage area.
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I almost always park in the short-term lot and go inside to meet the person. Costs a couple of bucks, so what. It's a lot more laid back than circling around the terminal a billion times until the person comes out.
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If you park, you have to pay a fee. If you meet them at the curb, you don't. Almost all the airports now have 'cell phone lots' which is a parking area outside the airport where you can wait to be contacted by the arriving person when they're ready to be picked up so you don't have to circle around waiting for them
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Yes, everybody likes to be greeted, but this is not always possible. The expense and time that airport parking takes is considerable. I usually opt for the curbside pickup, but I make sure that my person is well aware I intend to do that. They have always been perfectly fine with it.
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Depending on the airport, you have options from free parking to remote waiting. At my main airport (Tampa), I wait at the nearby cellphone parking lot and when the sign flashes that the flight I am waiting for has arrived, it is suggested that one waits 20 minutes for baggage to be claimed and then a drive to curbside for pickup.
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we always have to park, our airport doeesnt really have any space for even short term pick ups, normally the boys want to go and see a few planes as well !!
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I always get out and park the car, so do the people i visit by plane. It's just nicer, it feels like they want to pick you up - that you're not just another 'priority of the day' ;]
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I check the airport website to confirm the time the flight is going to land and arrive at the airport about 20 minutes after the flight has landed. I park in the car park and we have normally picked our guests up and left within the 30 minutes free parking time that we are allowed.
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I park and walk in to pick them up.I also carry their baggage.I know i dont want to carry that stuff after a long flight.If they're important enough to you for you to pick them up at the airport then treat them that way.
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