<p>Bradley in Hartford has an unpaved field they call the cell phone lot. When I was there, some local trucking company was loading mysterious boxes into the back of a cargo van…</p>
<p>bookreader - Newark does NOT have one.</p>
<p>Midway has one but what’s the point? There are a million little restaurants, fast food places, etc on the same road where you can just pull in there and wait for the phone call - no need to go to a specific Midway-designated lot.</p>
<p>I’m such a peasant… I was impressed that the cellphone parking lot in Denver has port-a-potties</p>
<p>Kathiep,
Thanks. I suspected that Newark did not have this, but I would have been thrilled to be wrong.</p>
<p>Me too bookreader. We fly out of Newark as often as we do out of Philly, but I don’t like to drive there, park there or pick up someone there. My favorite airport is our very local one, but alas, the deals are at the bigger places.</p>
<p>@stradmom,</p>
<p>Lol, I just used the BDL cellphone lot the other day and thought “why the heck am I sitting in this desolate space when there’s a McDonalds across the street???”</p>
<p>The Tampa airport has a cell phone lot (the nearby St Pete airport is very small and does not). There is a huge board with flight info you can face. Sure helps knowing the details without needing to hear from the passenger. Better than the free one? hour of parking if a flight is delayed. Works in the climate. Wouldn’t want to sit in my car up north in winter. </p>
<p>The concept is free parking with easy access to the arrival area for the airlines. The arriving passenger calls you on your cell phone when they have their luggage so all you have to do is drive up and immediately pick up the person. Of course this only works if the arriving person is truly ready for pickup- a local paper article stated how some don’t wait long enough and rules may be changed so cars aren’t hogging the pickup points waiting.</p>
<p>@wis75, why not just keep the engine idling & the heat on, if it’s winter?</p>
<p>Keeping a car running wastes energy and pollutes.</p>