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Every bid submitted to Edinburgh Airport during the recent tender process included a Private Hire operation as was required, including CRT.

You are objecting to an operation that you yourself admitted was part of your own failed bid. City Cabs would not vote in favour because of your hypocrisy.
Perhaps CRT's behaviour since pulling out of our proposed FTS bid and the announcement that City Cabs had won the tender is indicitive of just how and why Edinburgh Airport chose City Cabs.

CRT refused to answer any questions yesterday regarding their proposal to provide a PHC option at Edinburgh Airport.

I genuinely do not know the ins and outs of the bids but
I think it's fair to say that a lot of your own members are very uncomfortable
with the situation that CC have brought upon the trade- and seeing the unanimous
Backing given to the objections raised by CRT by the Fed is probably a fair reflection
of that.

But hey, if you just want to claim its bitterness at CRT not getting the contract
and not a bigger trade wide issue you go for it- say it often enough and you
might begin to believe it.

Voting against throwing good money after bad isn't regrettable, it's sensible.

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What would CRT stance be had they won the contract and was ranking up beside their own PH division?

Is that any different?


Remember, it wasn't City Cabs that wanted to give customers the option of cabs and PH at the terminal, it was Edinburgh Airport.

Also PH have been ranking at the airport in the guise of Onward Travel. And in OT, cabs AND PH were ranking together.

Just Maybe throwing away others hard earned money is what they have to do to protect their own self interests

Surely not, surely they'd be found out by now

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

So if your not Tony,then tell us who represented CRT at the STF agm ?



Just asking

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

That's typical of you Les try to deflect the heat by putting the blame on CRT most CRT members know what CRT planned to do with private hire its common knowledge however Comcab and CRT never refused to work with PHC wee refused to work with ECPH for obvious reasons but you saw it as away of keeping you and your buddies in office at the expense of the Edinburgh maybe even the Scottish taxi trade. All your years in the taxi trade you have stood up and objected to almost everything the PHC have put to the council now all of a sudden you are refusing to back the Scottish taxi trade and stop ECPH from lining up next to hackneys what reason could that be Les because you certainly don't believe its right that's for sure. I could think of only one reason LES.

I thought that was the best pic - although the original article has lots of good pictures - these events seem to be sadly dying a death in England.

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George Carlin

Murray and Tony who else Redcabman didn`t you say you were finished with forums did you not say you had better things to do oh and does Les know your posting

Redcabman are you telling me Les is right and the whole of the Scottish taxi trade is wrong you need to take your CC glasses off and see the bigger picture if ECPH are allowed to do this at Airport then why not in Lothian Rd George St Waverley Bridge Cameron Toll need I go on .

Presumably one of the Committee? Would expect it to be Tony?

Never one to shy away from my opinions Seems though I hit a nerve

Last June, 2012, Les told us Members how the Airport wanted its Taxi/PHC service to work, he was open and honest, it's a simple concept MR Spalding, we where willing to work the Airport the way we where asked by the Airport to do, my understanding is CRT where also aware of how the Airport saw the future, how CRT communicate with there members is there business but what I was told by Les back in June of last year still stands, there has been no change in anything I was told, so in the truth I trust.

As for your stated obvious reasons why CRT wouldn't work the way the Airport wanted, well that's not my concern its theirs, hey good luck but really all I'm saying is it smells of self interest, CRT members have the right to swallow what I believe is just that, self interest.

Nothing personal though, just an opinion.

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

So are you telling me your happy to work alongside ECPH then Redcabman?

The Airport is private land with special circumstances to use double yellow lines etc, check it out, I challenged a ticket years ago, some by-law or another but I was told the Airport is private land, the Lothian road rank etc is not, in my opinion anyone who believes booking offices will spring up all over the place is gullible, all that needs to happen is clarification from the council, at the end of the day though the Airport got what they wanted, the best of both, who am I to argue with what they believe is best for their business.

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Alway's been about Tightening the Grip!

Also Redcabman can we assume you lied when you announced you had finished with forums and does Les know your posting