The UK Airport Drop-Off Price Index
Data from 10 Jun 2026 to 2 Aug 2026As of 2 August 2026, 24 of the 26 largest UK airports charge to drop a passenger off, while 2 remain free. The dearest is Bristol at £60 if you stay past the included window (a £8.50 forecourt teaser); the cheapest charge is Teesside International at £2.50.Every figure below is read directly from each airport's own official drop-off page and date-stamped — cite it as “the ParkMath UK Airport Drop-Off Price Index”.
Last updated 2 August 2026 · oldest row verified 10 Jun 2026. Maintained continuously — see how we verify.
- Dearest drop-off (max)
- £60Bristol
- Cheapest charge
- £2.50Teesside International
- Worst £/min
- £1.60London City
- Drop off free
- 2 of 26airports
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The full index — every UK airport, cheapest to dearest
2 of 26 major UK airports let you drop off free. Of those that charge, the cheapest is Teesside International at £2.50; the most expensive is London Stansted at £10 (per drop-off, 2026).Ranked by the headline (standard) drop-off fee. Free airports lead the table; flat per-entry tariffs show “Per entry” rather than a per-minute figure. Tap any source link to open that airport's own page.
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“Drop-off fee” is the standard headline charge for the shortest paid stay. “Max / over-stay” is the dearest amount the airport itself publishes for the drop-off forecourt — the highest tariff band, or its stated maximum charge where one is given (highlighted where it's dearer than the headline, e.g. Stansted's £28 over-15-min step). It is read straight from the dataset, never extrapolated. Per-minute overstay rates and Blue Badge concessions are covered on each airport's own page. £/min is the headline fee divided by the minutes it buys (shown only for time-based tariffs).
Most-searched airport drop-off charges
Jump straight to the airports people look up most — the full fee, time bands, penalty and free alternative, each date-stamped against the official source:
Year-on-year movers
Where we hold a verified prior-year price, here is how the drop-off charge has moved into 2026:
- Manchester: Up £0.50 vs 2025 (£5 → £5.50)
- Liverpool John Lennon: Up £1 vs 2025 (£5 → £6)
- Glasgow: Up £1 vs 2025 (£6 → £7)
- London Heathrow: Up £1 vs 2025 (£6 → £7)
- Leeds Bradford: Up £1 vs 2025 (£7 → £8)
- London City: New charge for 2026 (£8)
- Bristol: Up £1.50 vs 2025 (£7 → £8.50)
How we verify (methodology)
Every fee in this index is read directly from the airport's own official drop-off / “dropping off” page — never from a third-party aggregator, money-saving page or our own memory. Each row records the exact date we last checked it (the “Verified” column) and links to the source we read. We re-check the dataset on a rolling basis and never republish a price we haven't confirmed, which is why some figures here differ from older guides still quoting last year's charge.
- Figures are the published standard drop-off charge in pounds sterling, current for 2026.
- “Free alternative” is a free option named on the airport's own page (a free waiting car park, or rail/tram reaching the terminal) — not an off-site third party.
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Sources & method
- Each airport's official drop-off page (linked per row above) — verified 2026-08-02
Every figure is each airport's own officially published drop-off charge, read from the source linked in its row and re-verified on the date shown. Nothing is scraped from third-party aggregators; nothing is republished unverified.
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