THE droves of Inverclyde people who use our local airport must be over the moon to hear it wants to impose a charge just for stopping to let someone out of your car.

Greedy Glasgow Airport is trying to introduce a £2 drop-off fee, but possibly did not expect such a backlash.

A motion has been lodged at Holyrood by a Labour MSP, saying the charges are unjustified and accusing the airport of ‘profiteering from passengers’.

SNP MSPs, who don’t find much common ground with Labour, are supporting the motion, and a member of the public has started a petition, calling the fee ‘a money-making scheme’.

The airport claims it wants to tackle congestion at the drop-off zone.

While it’s common to see double-parking there, I’ve never thought it was dangerous, for drivers usually move slowly through the area.

However, the airport magnanimously offers the alternative of unloading passengers for free at the long-stay car park, but that’s too far to walk in pouring rain and certainly out of the question for the elderly or disabled.

You would have to take the shuttle bus, and that doesn’t run on free air.

Unsurprisingly, social media airwaves have been red hot with outraged observations, including someone who also astutely took the opportunity to have a go at the airport’s “ridiculously overpriced food, drink and goods”.

Another noted bitterly: “It’s a joke – anything for some coin!”

Yes, airports are definitely the place to go for sky-high prices!