A cell phone lot is a
parking lot
A parking lot (American English) or car park (British English), also known as a car lot, is a cleared area intended for parking vehicles. The term usually refers to an area dedicated only for parking, with a durable or semi-durable surface ...
, typically located at airports, where people can wait before picking up passengers. The purpose of these lots is to reduce congestion at arrival sections by preventing cars from continuously circling around the airport or waiting on the sides of highways to avoid paying fees at the airport parking lots. Once the passenger's flight lands, after they collect their luggage and are ready to be picked up, they call the person waiting in the cell phone lot. These lots are usually free and only minutes away from the terminals.
Cellphone parking lots
Argentina
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Ministro Pistarini International Airport
Canada
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Ottawa Macdonald–Cartier International Airport
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Montreal-Pierre Eliott Trudeau International Airport
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Toronto Pearson International Airport
Lester B. Pearson International Airport , commonly known as Toronto Pearson International Airport, is an international airport located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. It is the main airport serving Toronto, its metropolitan area, and the surr ...
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Vancouver International Airport
Vancouver International Airport is an international airport located on Sea Island in Richmond, British Columbia, serving the city of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland region. It is located from Downtown Vancouver. It is the second busiest ...
Panama
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Tocumen International Airport
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United States
Many airports in the United States have cell phone lots.
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Austin-Bergstrom International Airport
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Baltimore–Washington International Airport
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport , commonly referred to as BWI or BWI Marshall, is an international airport in the Eastern United States serving mainly Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. With Dulles Internatio ...
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Boston Logan International Airport
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Charlotte Douglas International Airport
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Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport , also known as DFW Airport, is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the North Texas Region in the U.S. state of Texas.
It is the largest hub for American Air ...
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Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
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Denver International Airport
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Des Moines International Airport
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The airport's 2,600 acre campus includes two runways, 46 buildings, 7 parking facilities, and the terminal. Six ...
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Detroit Metropolitan Airport
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Eastern Iowa Airport
Eastern Iowa Airport is in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wright Brothers Boulevard on the south edge of town, west of Interstate 380. CID covers .
Airline service
The airport has been served almost entirely by regional jets, but also sees Del ...
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Cedar Rapids, IA
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Eppley Airfield
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Omaha
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Fort Wayne International Airport
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George Bush Intercontinental Airport
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Houston
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Harry Reid International Airport
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Las Vegas
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Nevada
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Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
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Indianapolis International Airport
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John F. Kennedy International Airport
John F. Kennedy International Airport (colloquially referred to as JFK Airport, Kennedy Airport, New York-JFK, or simply JFK) is the main international airport serving New York City. The airport is the busiest of the seven airports in the New ...
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New York City
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John Glenn Columbus International Airport
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LaGuardia Airport
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Los Angeles International Airport
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Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport
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Louisville International Airport
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Memphis International Airport
Memphis International Airport is a civil-military airport located southeast of Downtown Memphis in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. It is the primary international airport serving Memphis. It covers and has four runways., effective Au ...
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Miami International Airport
Miami International Airport , also known as MIA and historically as Wilcox Field, is the primary airport serving the greater Miami metropolitan area with over 1,000 daily flights to 167 domestic and international destinations, including most c ...
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Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
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Nashville International Airport
Nashville International Airport is a public/military airport in the southeastern section of Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Established in 1937, its original name was Berry Field, from which its ICAO and IATA identifiers are derived. The ...
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Newark Liberty International Airport
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Norfolk International Airport
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Northwest Arkansas National Airport
Northwest Arkansas National Airport is in Northwest Arkansas in Highfill, Arkansas, United States, northwest of Fayetteville and northwest of Springdale. It is often referred to by its IATA code, which is incorporated in the airport's logo ...
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O’Hare International Airport
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Ontario International Airport
Ontario International Airport is an international airport two miles east of downtown Ontario, in San Bernardino County, California, United States, about east of downtown Los Angeles and west of downtown San Bernardino. It is owned and opera ...
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Orlando International Airport
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Orlando Sanford International Airport
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Philadelphia International Airport
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Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
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Pittsburgh International Airport
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Raleigh-Durham International Airport
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Reno–Tahoe International Airport
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Richmond International Airport
Richmond International Airport is a joint civil-military airport in Sandston, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community (in Henrico County). The airport is about 7 miles (11 km) southeast of downtown Richmond, the capital of ...
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Sacramento International Airport
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San Antonio International Airport
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San Francisco International Airport
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Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport
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Seattle–Tacoma International Airport
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St. Louis Lambert International Airport
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Tampa International Airport
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Tulsa International Airport
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Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport
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Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport is mostly in Pittston Township, Pennsylvania, and spans the border between Luzerne County and Lackawanna County. It is owned and operated by the two counties; it is about 7 miles from Scranton and 8 ...
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