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The figures behind the drop-off charges and hand luggage pages, as JSON and CSV files you can download, quote and build on. Every figure was read from the airport’s own website and comes with the page and the day it was read.
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The files
Drop-off charges at UK and island airports
One row per airport. Each row gives what the airport charges to pull into its drop-off zone and the minutes that buys, or 0 where dropping off is free. If the free time is in a car park, the row names it. It also gives both charges where the airport’s own pages give two, any free alternative listed on this site (not a full list of Blue Badge concessions), and the page and day each figure was read.
35 airports, 32 with a figure, each figure read between 6 Oct 2026 and 2 Nov 2026. Built from the rows of the drop-off charges page.
Liquid rules at UK and island airports
One row per airport. Each row gives the liquid limit on the airport’s own website, whether it still asks for a clear bag, how its pages differ where they do, any note from this site, and the page and day each limit was read.
35 airports, 34 with a figure, each figure read between 11 Oct 2026 and 25 Oct 2026. Built from the rows of the hand luggage page.
How it is made
Every fact is checked against the airport’s own website. It is read from one of its pages, checked a second time against that page, and kept with the page’s address and the day it was read. Nothing is an estimate, an average across sources or another comparison site’s number.
Where an airport’s own pages give two different figures for the charge to pull in or the liquid limit, its row carries both, each with its own page and date, and says they differ. Nothing is merged. A column holds one value, so chargeGBP and liquidLimit show the first figure listed. That is only the order, not a choice between them. Where pagesDiffer says yes, read the whole row. Where no usable figure was found, the row says so rather than borrowing one.
The files are built from the same records as the pages. A file says only what its page says, as of the day the file was built. What counts as a drop-off charge is set out on the drop-off charges page. The sources behind each liquid rule are on the hand luggage page.
The files do not hold everything on those pages. Apart from the rules on a free stop, they leave out the airports’ quoted sentences. They also leave out the price a minute, what happens if you stay longer and what has changed. The hand luggage files have no column for what comes out of the bag, though a few rows mention it. Each airport’s guide and the hand luggage page quote the airports, with a link. Follow a row’s source link to read the airport’s page itself.
The licence
This collection of figures is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). The licence covers how the figures are selected and arranged, which page each came from and the date. You may copy the collection, publish it, quote it and build on it, for any purpose, as long as you credit this site, link to the licence and say if you changed anything.
Where the pages quote an airport, the words are the airport’s. The rules on a free stop in the drop-off files are its own sentences, some after a short lead-in from this site, and a few short phrases in the other columns follow its wording. This site claims nothing over any of them. It claims nothing over the charges and rules themselves either: an airport’s charge is the airport’s. What belongs to this site is the work of reading, checking and dating it.
The files are offered as they stand. They show what each airport’s pages said on the day given beside each figure. This site is not an airport, a car park operator or a government service, and it sets none of these charges or rules. Check the airport’s own page before you rely on a figure.
How to give credit
Credit this site with a line that names it and links back. The licence also asks you to link to it and to say if you changed anything. The short form:
Source: PlanMyFlight, planmyflight.co.uk. Licence: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
In print, the same line. Online, a link to the page the figure came from is better still: planmyflight.co.uk/drop-off-charges for a drop-off charge, planmyflight.co.uk/hand-luggage for a liquid rule. Keep the licence line with it, whether you share the files whole or in part.
If you see a figure that has changed, use the contact page. The figure is checked against the airport’s page before anything changes here.
How often it changes
The files are refreshed when a change is published. Otherwise they are refreshed when someone opens them more than a day after the last build. Each figure gives the day the airport’s page was read, and the top of each file gives the day the file was built. A drop-off figure not re-read for more than 180 days is dropped from the page and the file. The row stays and the figure goes blank. A liquid rule has no such cut-off, so go by the date beside it.
The CSV opens straight into a spreadsheet. Its first few lines start with # and give the licence, the credit and the date.