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Author:  Tom Thumb [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Southampton Airport
Just flew into Southampton this evening.

As you emerge from arrivals you have Checkers Cars booking desk in front of you.

Walk out the door and there is a line of Checker Cars PH vehicles queued up waiting for their bookings.

What I want to know is how Checker Cars and BAA get away with the booking desk having only one sign, and that sign only has one word on it. Taxis!

How can a PH firm trade under a sign saying Taxis?
Author:  grandad [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:16 pm ]
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Surely this can't be true........................................Southampton has an airport?????? :?
Author:  skippy41 [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:19 pm ]
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grandad wrote:
Surely this can't be true........................................Southampton has an airport?????? :?


Thats the beach is it not?????????? :lol:

I think they cannot state the word taxis anywhere
Author:  toots [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:20 pm ]
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skippy41 wrote:
grandad wrote:
Surely this can't be true........................................Southampton has an airport?????? :?


Thats the beach is it not?????????? :lol:

I think they cannot state the word taxis anywhere


I think they can they just can't have it on their vehicles.
Author:  captain cab [ Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Southampton Airport
Tom Thumb wrote:
Just flew into Southampton this evening.

As you emerge from arrivals you have Checkers Cars booking desk in front of you.

Walk out the door and there is a line of Checker Cars PH vehicles queued up waiting for their bookings.

What I want to know is how Checker Cars and BAA get away with the booking desk having only one sign, and that sign only has one word on it. Taxis!

How can a PH firm trade under a sign saying Taxis?


At a guess....my gaff my rules and a local cab trade thats more interested in preserving their plate value than rocking any boat.

CC
Author:  christopherwk [ Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:13 am ]
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They are a taxi company aren't they? Haven't their cars got hackney plates?

They offer a taxi service from most of the U.K. airports, with the exception of Heathrow, where they are private hire, and are licensed by the PCO and Spelthorne.
Author:  Sussex [ Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:14 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Southampton Airport
Tom Thumb wrote:
What I want to know is how Checker Cars and BAA get away with the booking desk having only one sign, and that sign only has one word on it. Taxis!

I suspect it's because no-one in the local trade has complained officially.
Author:  Sussex [ Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:15 am ]
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christopherwk wrote:
They offer a taxi service from most of the U.K. airports,

100% PH at Gatwick.
Author:  edders23 [ Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:08 pm ]
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Just to be pedantic isn't "Southampton airport" actually located at the neighbouring town of Eastleigh ?

I think the problem with airports is that they are private land and I would be surprised if the authorities could act on a complaint over signage within the airport itself

As far as I know Birmingham Luton and Heathrow are the only airports in England worked by Hackney plated vehicles the rest are PH firms who pay the owners vast sums of money for the rights to exclusively work the airport
Author:  captain cab [ Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:10 pm ]
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edders23 wrote:

As far as I know Birmingham Luton and Heathrow are the only airports in England worked by Hackney plated vehicles the rest are PH firms who pay the owners vast sums of money for the rights to exclusively work the airport


You missed Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh too.

CC
Author:  edders23 [ Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:26 pm ]
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captain cab wrote:
edders23 wrote:

As far as I know Birmingham Luton and Heathrow are the only airports in England worked by Hackney plated vehicles the rest are PH firms who pay the owners vast sums of money for the rights to exclusively work the airport


You missed Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh too.

CC


I thought Manchester was another worked by franchise ? we never get asked to go as far as Liverpool or newcastle so I wouldn't know about those or the Scottish ones which is why I said England in the post !
Author:  cabbyman [ Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:26 pm ]
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100% PHV at Southamp[ton. Licensed in Eastleigh.
Author:  christopherwk [ Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:32 am ]
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edders23 wrote:
As far as I know Birmingham Luton and Heathrow are the only airports in England worked by Hackney plated vehicles the rest are PH firms who pay the owners vast sums of money for the rights to exclusively work the airport


Do not forget too that black taxis also pay the owner a (vast) sum of money each time they rank at Heathrow. They pay BAA approx £5.50, which is quite a chunk of the fare, as they have to wait about for a few hours.

Also at the information desk at each of Heathrow's terminals is a poster displayed with about a dozen or private hire adverts, where private hire firms also pay BAA to advertise on there.
Author:  captain cab [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:34 pm ]
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edders23 wrote:

I thought Manchester was another worked by franchise ? we never get asked to go as far as Liverpool or newcastle so I wouldn't know about those or the Scottish ones which is why I said England in the post !


The taxis at MCR airport use a barrier system.

CC
Author:  APH [ Tue Aug 31, 2010 8:54 pm ]
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We have been told on numerous occasions that "TAXI" is a generic word which is why the LA can do nothing about it. :roll: :roll:
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