Taxi drivers at Glasgow Airport face £6000 bill
13.03.08
Taxi drivers at Glasgow Airport face paying almost £6000 a year to use the its taxi rank, the Evening Times reports. In a double blow to their pockets, licensed drivers operating from the forecourt will have to pay a new £1 charge every time they leave Renfrewshire with a passenger - which could add up to £2600 a year - plus a £60 a week fee - £3120 a year - for a compulsory car radio.
The white cars that use the airport's taxi rank currently pay a flat rate permit of £1200 a year, but this is being scrapped by airport operator BAA and replaced with the £1 barrier charge. In addition Inverclyde Taxis, the new firm in charge of managing the airport taxis, is to charge £60 a week bill for the car radio. It plans to introduce the charge when it takes over the contract from Cabfly on March 31.
Since the terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport last June, BAA has spent £650,000 on improved drop-off and pick-up facilities and a further £1.5 million on the forecourt, including new security measures. A BAA spokesman told the newspaper: ‘It is entirely reasonable those companies who directly benefit from this investment share in the costs of these improvements. Under the new system, every driver will pay to depart through a barrier, but anyone making a journey within Renfrewshire will be refunded.’
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