Simple answer is, don't use it.
Customers rights
Simple answer is, don't use it.
Customers rights
If Alan Hardy ran airports .. they would be like this
https://www.nottinghampost.com/whats...forces-2970488
Holidaymakers have abandoned cars and walked more than a mile in the rain to East Midlands Airport as Download congestion brings traffic to a standstill.
A taxi driver spotted around 30 people dragging suitcases along the A453 on Wednesday afternoon (June 12) at 12.45pm.
Not their fault? It's never his fault either. In fairness, he could probably give them a lift to the airport faster than a taxi.
Truest aweful. Download and the Airport between them should do something, like paying for proper traffic marshalling. We lost a flight and two days of our holiday about 5 years ago. Same scenario, heavy rain, Download, no proper traffic management.
On the subject of choice of airport, all the UK airports are aweful. Spain knows how to do airports. Love Malaga. Clean, bright, spacious.
I dropped my wife off yesterday morning. Absolute chaos and impossible to get through in 5 minutes. However the exit barriers were raised and car park attendants were taking £2 payments. For once common sense prevailed.
Any additional income should be spent on improving passport control which is an absolute joke.
I hope none of those taxi drivers were relatively local.
There's a very simple way of avoiding the A453 - if I knew it was Download weekend I'd avoid it like I avoid watching the BBC.
From the North.
J24A takes you into the A50 Stoke.
After a quarter of a mile come off at J1 and come through Castle Donington village. Ten minutes max.
From the South or West.
J24 has an exit to the A50. Same again.