airazurxtror wrote:
May I offer a comment ?
1- very rarely is the road to an airport very easy to find. As for CRL, I take the road to the old terminal arriving from the Carolorégienne, continue and turn round the east end of the runway and then back to the new terminal. When you have made it once or twice, you fin easily the way.
2- the parking fees are about the same as other airports : Brussels, Eindhoven, Lille, etc... Too expensive, I agree, but it's the same everywhere.
3 and 4 - having no personal experience, I'll take your word for it
5 - unfriendly security : I beg to disagree. The security personnel do its job courteously; I make it ring and I am searched every time, always with politeness. They surely are not more unfriendly than at Brussels, for instance, where there are some characters sometimes on duty !
May I reply to your comments?
1. I presume you're a Belgian and an aviation freak and therefore KNOW the area, but imagine a poreigner who rents a car and has to folow the signs, coming from Brussels, early in the morning, when it's dark. He's driving on the A54, because he knows the airport must be close to Charleroi, now he approaches the E42 and there's a extremely small sign, but pretty well visible. So he merges on the E42. We know where we have to take the exit at the R3 (I think), but even for me it's difficult to find the extremely small sign. Imagine what it must like for a foreigner who's not familiar the area: he ends up at Bierset! especially when driving on the left lane.
5. Well, I fly between 40 and 50 times a year, both professionally and private and I never, never have discussions but in Charleroi, and no, it's not because I start with a negative idea. They regurarly find something in my luggage that nowhere in the world is a problem but there.
Cheers,
Stij
nothing else to add I guess
But SN is correct, they need to count a lot of tax to their pax, and Ryanair (and other CRL users) don't because of the walloon goverment. Once the Walloon goverment will take away it's support to the airport and by by Ryanair. So the only solution is to decrease the tax in BRU. 
