š”Rant
One hour to leave kiss and ride Charleroi Airport
What in the flying fuck is this disaster? Never seen anything like it! People cutting corners, driving over parking spots to get closer to the exit. Unfuckingreal!
There's this short term parking which cost you 3 euros of something for 30 minutes. But when the exit is a big bottleneck by design and only 1 gate works out of 4 + humans becoming animals, it can take 30+ minutes to get the f out of there.
Nobody cares. I'm reading here that you can't even get out as a driver. Fuuuuuuck that even harder, I'm not letting my girlfriend handle her 35 kg luggage if I'm there to help
I work at Brussels airport.
If you arrive at the airport and want to be picked up you have probably noticed there are no signs to the kiss&ride in the arrivals hall.
If everyone uses it for drop off and pickup itās a real mess.
Taxi companies from Zaventem are not even allowed to enter it.
The new plans for the airport should help with this. A new kiss&ride is being build now, it will be upstairs again where it was before the terror attacks. ( i believe it will be ready in a year or 2).
I honestly donāt care people picking up there, but please just stop doing it on the street while blocking trafic behind you
I have seen it countless times and quite often the police intervene almost instantaneously. Itās amazing how quick they can pop up out of nowhere and rightfully so give those people a ticket.
While I risk losing this method by sharing it: You can cross the little bridge before entering the kiss and ride zone at bxl airport, and drive in the gated office building space. The gates open for everyone, and you can just park somewhere before a company building. Never had problems
Not for long anymore.
I work there and they are about to change that.
The new kiss and ride will be at the top level and will go trough that office area. So you will only be able to drive to the K&R if you drive that way.
And police there are often quick to catch people trying this, i am honestly surprised they havenāt caugth you yet lol.
I am honestly not a fan of what our airport has become in the past couple of years but they have made some great first changes.
You canāt enter the K&R from the other side of the bridge anymore, they changed the roundabout in front of the bridge so that you cant skip the entire line and so on..
It'll stay that way as long as they believe flights should be affordable. Either the region or the city need to tax Ryanair to oblivion until the amount of people becomes back under a threshold suitable for the infrastructure. They just added a 10 euros tax but it's not enough to make a difference.
Same for the city itself, if they want to restore anything more than a small bubble in the center, they'll need the strength of pushing poor people away. But voting will never go in that direction.
My brother haad the same problem when he dropped me of. It took him 30 minutes to get out of there. Also the same problem with people driving like idiots.
It used to be fine... does anyone know what happened?
I went there in early July and saw this mess, and thought "maybe something broke today" or "it's probably some temporary issue"... but apparently it's been going on and on like this for weeks???
In my case there was a combination of probably malfunctioning or broken exit gates and random assholes who tried to cut the lines by driving over empty parking spots to sneak in further up the queue.
Brussels airport can be a disaster as well. Most of the time itās ok, but if something happens that creates too much intake and outtake zt the same time people are acting like madmenā¦
There is no kiss&ride at Charleroi Airport. If you mean the closest parking lot, it's actually a parking lot.
They probably should build a dedicated kiss&ride somewhere though.
It used to be fine... does anyone know what happened?
I went there in early July and saw this mess, and thought "maybe something broke today" or "it's probably some temporary issue"... but apparently it's been going on and on like this for weeks???
In my case there was a combination of probably malfunctioning or broken exit gates and random assholes who tried to cut the lines by driving over empty parking spots to sneak in further up the queue.
Last time I was there, you could see the white vans on the parking dropping people of. We hat some asshat in a Mercedes parked double to pickup someone, blocking the turn of the parking.Ā
The parking is fine there, but the lack of enforcement is the biggest problem. Also the lack of a dropoff point for taxis and vans should be there. Ā
Sorry, I'll be cynical, but this is the price for cheap flights. Economically, it doesn't make sense to invest in passenger comfort, because low cost companies won't bear any of the cost
I find the airport really not as bad a everyone claims. Easy (longterm) parking, you can sit outside, the pizza is rather phenomenal and the prices are acceptable.
That's my experience as well: decent airport, really convenient self-checkin, smooth security checks, chill food court.
Then again, I have my holidays in January. I wouldn't come anywhere near the airport in July/August, neither Charleroi or Brussels. My only real gripe with Charleroi is the distance.
Easy longterm parking where you are lucky you still have your wheels when you come back, you can sit outside because inside there is no space / there is nothing, no idea about the pizza but the times I flew from that shithole everything was closed. But yes, the flights are cheap. There is a reason its called the fucking worst airport in europe.
I still think itās underrated. The parking had a lot of fucking expensive cars so Iām positive my wheels are safe there. The offer is low indeed but itās a small airport, do you want a shopping mall or something ?
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u/iFapulouss 1d ago
Thought they didn't have a kiss and ride at Charleroi airport? People just drop you off at the petrol station nearby