It - along with cell phone waiting lots - are ways for people to drop others off and avoid the traffic around the terminals themselves.

Which can be bad - I often find it easier to just pay for a few minutes parking on dropoff/pickup.

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rconti 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, but the SFO cell phone lot is particularly bad, and traffic to the terminals is bad.

On the flip side, there are airports like Cleveland where people just park their car at arrivals and disappear for 20 minutes.

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smelendez 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I did always find the term kiss and fly confusing and weirdly intimate, as if everyone is getting a ride to the airport from a spouse or parent. Definitely a throwback to another era.

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bombcar 3 days ago | parent [-]

I think it's also a regional thing; I'd never heard of it.

	▲	rconti 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		ChatGPT tells me it originated at Paris CDG in the 1990s where it was "depose minute" but then also cites LA Times from the 1950s as the first source of the term[1]. I've seen it in Germany as "Kiss und Ride". So it's not really a regionalism, but I also don't think it's super common. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_and_ride?utm_source=chatg...