Councillor calls for Government action on Aberdeen Airport taxi row
01.03.08
A senior councillor has called for a national fight against controversial new Aberdeen Airport taxi charges. Licensing committee member and deputy SNP leader, councillor Jim Kiddie, said pressure from MSPs would add extra 'clout' to the protest against proposals to introduce a barrier charge at the airport this April, four months earlier than originally announced.
The planned charges have already seen Rainbow Taxis resign from its contract at the airport, and cab drivers go on strike earlier this week. Council licensing convener Callum McCaig has also written to BAA expressing the committee's anger at plans for airport drivers to pay £1 every time they pick up a fare at the airport.
In a separate move, BAA announced that the new charges would come in on April 1 not August 1 as originally planned. The company says the charges are necessary to step up security in the wake of the terrorist attack at Glasgow Airport. Councillor Kiddie said the airport owners were 'profiteering' from the current terror situation.
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