Cabbies launch Leeds Bradford Airport drop off charge petition
16.06.11
Taxi drivers are lobbying ‘greedy’ Leeds Bradford Airport calling for it to scrap new drop-off charges, the Yorkshire Evening Post reports. Anyone wanting to drop off or collect passengers outside the terminal now has to pay £2, no matter how brief their stop. Councillor Andrew Carter, leader of the Tory group on Leeds City Council, branded the charge a ‘rip-off’.
The Professional Drivers’ Branch of the GMB union has launched a petition demanding that the charges are dropped. Yorkshire branch secretary Javaid Akhtar, also a Leeds councillor and taxi driver, said: ‘The airport management have become so greedy. It is about time the people of this city and region stood up and said something.’
Naeem Azam, Yorkshire branch president for the GMB’s Professional Drivers’ Branch, said cabbies had no choice but to add the cost of the new charge to fares. This adds an extra £4 for a two-way trip. He said: ‘We want the airport to stop penalising people. They are giving the airport business and yet, ultimately, they are being pushed elsewhere.’
The petition will be placed in taxi offices and cabs for passengers to sign.
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