New BNE pickup area with 20 mins free parking to open late August.

[markis10]

Brisbane Airports new Domestic Terminal Public Pick-up Area is scheduled to open in late August. The new area will allow 20 minutes free parking for drivers waiting to collect their passengers from the Domestic Terminal.
When the new Pick-up Area opens, the road in front of the terminal, now used for dropping off and picking-up passengers, will become a Drop-Off Only zone. The exception to this rule will be for drivers picking-up passengers with mobility limitations.



http://bne.com.au/files/BAC5936 - A4 PPU Flyer.pdf

 

[anat0l]

I hope they've thought this out properly.

What happens if you enter the area, can't find a spot, so then exit immediately? You just keep cycling through "free" parking tickets?

And it's only a matter of time before some idiots start "double parking" people in, just like many of them tended to do so under the old old system. "Oh, I'll just be 5 minutes - my pick-up will be here very soon!" Yeah, right - I'll give you 5 seconds to move your bl**dy car out of the way before I key it and your face.....

Also, I can't see the traffic inspectors (if they are ever there doing a job) being vigilant in monitoring the drop off zone. So people will continue to go there to pick people up without repercussions. And of course, you get the people who pull up, unload the boot and then spend another 10 minutes saying goodbye and wasting other people's time and holding up the traffic flow.


In theory, a great idea. In practice... we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[JohnPhelan]

Interesting that you basically have to walk through the paid carpark to get to the "free parking for pick-up" area.

Normally "kerbside" pick-up is right out the front of the terminal, as is the case at BNE Domestic now. The cynic in me suspects that it's a ploy to make "free" pick-up more difficult for people than using the paid carparking!

 

[markis10]

In theory, a great idea. In practice... we'll just have to wait and see.

In practice, just the same as what has been introduced at other Australian airports!

 

[NM]

well I hope they can learn how to organise taxi pick-ups. It was a real mess on Wednesday evening. The folks directing the taxis and passengers at BNE have no idea how to do it efficiently. SYD and MEL manage much better with higher numbers of passengers.

Hopefully the new pick-up area will help reduce the traffic through the current public drop-off/pick-up area. That has been a nightmare for a long time.

 

[TonyD]

I can not believe there has not been absolute outrage to this idea from passengers or the airline. I agree with John Phelan, a cynical attempt to get paid parking. Though i did only pay $2 there recently. NOW the really big difference with the pick up space at Brisbane to sydney or Melbourne - is it is a 600 metre walk from Qantas to the area. Their own website says allow 10 to 15 minutes to walk there!! yet the are 3 lanes dedicated to buses and taxis and who knows what else. NO other airport ( except possibly Adelaide) has this log jam - mainly because its a one level departure and arrival set up not two. People are going to continue to try pick ups in the drop off zone.
I have queried BAC on why another pick up area couldnt be designated in the recently retired temp care park to the N/E of Qantas - "oh that area is required for the second runway" - what BS. Guess what BAC - you wouldnt need to cross any roads and could leave via the back of the long term carpark.

 

[jetlagger]

I can not believe there has not been absolute outrage to this idea from passengers or the airline. I agree with John Phelan, a cynical attempt to get paid parking. Though i did only pay $2 there recently. NOW the really big difference with the pick up space at Brisbane to sydney or Melbourne - is it is a 600 metre walk from Qantas to the area. Their own website says allow 10 to 15 minutes to walk there!! yet the are 3 lanes dedicated to buses and taxis and who knows what else. NO other airport ( except possibly Adelaide) has this log jam - mainly because its a one level departure and arrival set up not two. People are going to continue to try pick ups in the drop off zone.
I have queried BAC on why another pick up area couldnt be designated in the recently retired temp care park to the N/E of Qantas - "oh that area is required for the second runway" - what BS. Guess what BAC - you wouldnt need to cross any roads and could leave via the back of the long term carpark.

A.complete disappointment..
TBH.. The whole BNE DOM airport infrastructure is way past its 'use by date". It is old, antiquated & dirty in most parts, despite the recent 'enhancements" of a 'cash cow" multistory car park & added walkways. What worked in 1988 is clearly unsuitable for terminal & infrastructure 2012 & beyond with the ever growing flight & passenger numbers.

BAC appear to be playing 'patch up & catch up" games, with passenger convenience a secondary role to the priority revenue streams of car parking & retail.. despite their 'self appointed accolades"

 

[JohnK]

And if it is anything like SYD you do not get 20 minutes free parking if you happen to stay past the first 20 minutes! :shock:

Go figure. Dad came to pick me up and it took ~35 minutes and the charge was for 1 hour parking. And you wonder why I try and do anything to avoid paying these creeps more money.

 

[serfty]

Isn't there an elevated departures level ramp mooted for the terminal?

Posted on a wing and a prayer ...

 

[anat0l]

Isn't there an elevated departures level ramp mooted for the terminal?

Posted on a wing and a prayer ...

There were many upgrades planned for the complex, included the mentioned departures level reconfiguration, but during the end of the last GFC, the boffins, in their "wisdom" *cough* *bull****!* *cough*, decided that the planned works had to be pushed back some 5-7 years.

Begs to think how a bunch of idiots who can run one of the world's most respected airports - AMS - can not run a much smaller, simpler one to a first world standard. Why those overpaid gutless pencil-pushers haven't been castrated yet is beyond me.

Oh, and it probably doesn't help that we are equally ruled by a puppet gutless local and state excuse we call "the government". Oh, and of course we have an emerging community NIMBY problem (note: not really their fault, but a problem nonetheless).

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[samh004]

From that map, looks like walking between the new 20-minute free area and the terminal would use up your 20 minutes it's so far away... Okay, slight exaggeration, but it is a walk!


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[RB]

And if it is anything like SYD you do not get 20 minutes free parking if you happen to stay past the first 20 minutes! :shock:

Go figure. Dad came to pick me up and it took ~35 minutes and the charge was for 1 hour parking. And you wonder why I try and do anything to avoid paying these creeps more money.

Would have been worthwhile to drive around a lap-I presume you were in contact

 

[anat0l]

Would have been worthwhile to drive around a lap-I presume you were in contact

It would probably depend - if you couldn't get out of the parking lot in time, you're still up for that hour fee.

And doing a lap in the SYD airport complex isn't like doing a seven point turn in a narrow estate street, especially at rush hour time.

From that map, looks like walking between the new 20-minute free area and the terminal would use up your 20 minutes it's so far away...

I wonder how fast you would walk for that "20 minutes"? I guess it comes back down to waiting until you are well on your way to the area, then call your pickup to approach the area.

FWIW the BAC flyer gazettes a walking time of 10-15 minutes.

 

[RB]

It would probably depend - if you couldn't get out of the parking lot in time, you're still up for that hour fee.

And doing a lap in the SYD airport complex isn't like doing a seven point turn in a narrow estate street, especially at rush hour time.
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Sorry I have been there and done that, it is not that complicated on either count in my opinion

 

[JohnK]

Would have been worthwhile to drive around a lap-I presume you were in contact

You know how I have not embraced social media such as Facebook and Twitter?

Well mum and dad do not have a mobile phone!

It was my fault anyway as I had rushed through immigration and called home but then waited an eternity for the golf clus and to get through quarantine. Live and learn. Now I call once I am through quarantine which means I wait for around 20-30 minutes.

 

[RB]

You know how I have not embraced social media such as Facebook and Twitter?

Well mum and dad do not have a mobile phone!

It was my fault anyway as I had rushed through immigration and called home but then waited an eternity for the golf clus and to get through quarantine. Live and learn. Now I call once I am through quarantine which means I wait for around 20-30 minutes.

Your new post casts a different light on post 8.

 

[Blackbird]

Isn't there an elevated departures level ramp mooted for the terminal?

Posted on a wing and a prayer ...

Looking at what they have just done it will be much harder to do now.
Don't think this will this happen in the next 10 years.

 

[futaris]

Open from Tuesday 18 September 2012:

Brisbane Airport Corporation - Domestic Terminal Public Pick-Up

 

[TonyD]

I hereby call upon all members FFs and anybody who uses the Brisbane Terminal ( esp Qantas as it is worse affected) to boycott the pick up area. You actually get 20 minutes for $2 in the new car park - a better choice but I will continue to pick up from the drop off zone until another pick up area is created at the eastern end of the terminal.
For our southern friends - this are is , from the Qantas eastern exit - approx 600 metres. In sydney that about the same as waling up and around to the Ross Smith intersection ( where the formula one motel is) For the Melbournites - up to the BP servo. Vey handy when you have baggage!!!!

 

[samh004]

It’ll actually be very easy to claim the free 20 minutes and then drive out to the roundabout, turn right and go straight back into the car park. However, I’ll probably still head to the GA Lookout instead, and just stop in to do the pickup, instead of taking 20 minute stints in it!

What I’d like to know is what powers they have to move people on and/or fine them if they pick up from the dropoff area. Can they enlist the AFP, or do they not have the power to get the AFP’s help in that matter… sort of similar to private car park fines and no one paying them I suppose.