3973  Airport carts

Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 23:29:39 +0000
From: Sergio Vandekier <sergiovandekier990@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Airport carts

Huck Kennedy says: "Sergio writes:

>In most airports to get a luggage cart you must pay at
>least 3 dollars

I have not found this to be true. While obviously
I haven't been everywhere in the world, I can say I have
never been charged for a cart at an international arrival
anywhere except in Newark Airport in the United States,
where they actually have the disgraceful gall to charge
$3 even within the customs area. Elsewhere in the US,
I've gotten a free cart within customs, but then had to
relinquish it before exiting to the main airport area.
Outside the US, I've always gotten a free cart, period,
with no restrictions."

Please see the following airport pages where the fee for the Airport cart is
given.

I am given just a few of them in order not to be repetitive.

Summary : Most Airports in the USA and in Europe charge 2 to 3 dollars for
carts, some reimburse 25 cents when you return them to the place where you
took it from. Carts at some airports are still free.



https://www.travelandleisure.com/invoke.cfm?ObjectID8BAFCA-4143-462E-88CDB081E94E56BA

https://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/vienna/airport.html

https://iah.houstonairportsystem.org/terminals

https://www.lyonairport.com/www_en/index.php?module=cms&action=get&id 04070817252124&&newsId000

https://www.cvgairport.com/shop/details.php?liT

https://www.rcgov.org/Airport/pages/airport_services.htm#luggagecarts

https://www.springsgov.com/AirportPage.asp?PageIDF77#baggage

Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 21:30:24 -0700
From: Huck Kennedy <huck@ENSMTP1.EAS.ASU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Airport carts

Sergio writes:

> Huck Kennedy says:
> > Sergio writes:
> > > In most airports to get a luggage cart you must pay at
> > > least 3 dollars
>
> > I have not found this to be true. While obviously
> > I haven't been everywhere in the world, I can say I have
> > never been charged for a cart at an international arrival
> > anywhere except in Newark Airport in the United States,
> > where they actually have the disgraceful gall to charge
> > $3 even within the customs area. Elsewhere in the US,
> > I've gotten a free cart within customs, but then had to
> > relinquish it before exiting to the main airport area.
> > Outside the US, I've always gotten a free cart, period,
> > with no restrictions."
>
> Please see the following airport pages where the fee for the
> Airport cart is given.
>
> I am given just a few of them in order not to be repetitive.
>
> Summary : Most Airports in the USA

Not for international arrivals.

> and in Europe charge 2 to 3 dollars for carts,

First of all, I clearly stated that in the
US carts were only free in the international arrivals
area, in customs (except in Newark). And in Europe,
they still are mostly free, even according to your
own references.

> https://www.travelandleisure.com/invoke.cfm?ObjectID8BAFCA-4143-462E-88CDB081E94E56BA

Your own article states that carts are free
in London, Paris, and Rome. And I've also flown
relatively recently into Germany, Spain, and Russia.
No cart fee. In fact, the only airport your article
mentions that charges is in Turkey (in Milan also,
but it's only a deposit and you get the money right
back if you return the cart). Plus within the last
few years I've flown into Mexico and Costa Rica as
well. No cart fee.

> https://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/vienna/airport.html

5 shillings is 43 cents American. And it's
not clear you don't get that back for returning
the cart, like you do at the grocery store in
many parts of Europe (and at Milan airport).

> https://iah.houstonairportsystem.org/terminals

Your own article states carts are free in the
international area of Houston, just as I claimed.

> https://www.lyonairport.com/www_en/index.php?module=cms&action=get&id 04070817252124&&newsId000

Okay, that's possibly three airports, one in
Turkey (well, I guess that's half-Europe), 43 cents
in Vienna, and a euro in Lyon. And that's assuming
Lyon doesn't return your money when you bring the cart
back, like Milan does. I imagine it does, because
they accept either a Euro or a pound sterling, which
would make carts 50% more expensive for British
travelers if you didn't get your deposit back, which
hardly seems fair. And Lyon says that they have cart
drop off areas--why bother with that, if you don't
get your money back?

> https://www.cvgairport.com/shop/details.php?liT

Again, the last time I flew into Cincinnati
from abroad, carts were free in the international
customs area. You have to pay in the rest of the
airport, of course.

> https://www.rcgov.org/Airport/pages/airport_services.htm#luggagecarts

Rapid City, South Dakota? Are you kidding me?
They don't even have international flights.

> https://www.springsgov.com/AirportPage.asp?PageIDF77#baggage

Colorado Springs? Ditto.

Unless things have changed very recently,
international carts are free in every airport in the
US I've flown into from abroad within the last five
years except Newark, and that includes Dallas, Phoenix,
Cincinnati, and Philadelphia. And a friend of mine
who travels frequently was recently complaining about
having to pay at Newark, which means to him it was
a real rarity for US international arrivals as well.
And they're free almost everywhere in Europe (although
that may start changing soon, according to your first
article).

Huck