Archie McCaig has criticised Manchester Airport (Image: MEN)

A driver has been left outraged after claiming he was charged £25 at Manchester Airport while parked up for just four minutes to pick up his family. Archie McCaig, 63, who works as a night manager at the Grand Hotel in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, pulled into Terminal 2's barrier-free pick-up zone at 8.23am on Friday, November 21.

He claims that within four minutes, he had collected his nephew and family from their Florida holiday and was already leaving the pick-up area, only to be held up by a traffic jam on his way out. Having set up his Jeep Renegade for automatic airport parking fee payments, he received an email invoice the next morning that left him stunned.

The automatically paid bill amounted to £25, alleging that h

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