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"Not going to waste any of my time replying to your usual boring long winded posts.

Fact is you know nothing as you are nothing to do with Edinburgh Airport nor any of its taxi providers.

You will know very soon exactly what is going on there but until then why dont you keep your ill informed guesswork to yourself. Very few if any people on here care what you think."

Whys it full, Even at 11.30 at night the damn things near full with hardly a soul in the damned Airport building.!!

That Fullness is a recent thing, it was less full when the car park was smaller and before the Multi Story was built...Just who's daft enough to park their car in the short stay when they do not seem to be physically there?

Your bang on the money there Jasbar...what a contemptible bunch they have become since BAA had to sell the place, biggest mistake ever.

Met Alan Gibson of ECPH today, it was a real pleasure. I always had a high regard for the man, because he always seemed sincere and genuine to me.

Anyway, after our greeting, he kindly offered to show me his new facility in the old fast track parking area. I readily accepted.

And what I saw was impressive. Clean, well equipped to dispatch jobs, and extremely professional. But then, I guess I knew it would be. The area in front of the office has been mapped out to allow cars to be held there to meet the needs of customers. I know that the best vehicles in the fleet will be accessing the area, as will the best and most professional drivers. The whole customer experience will be of a professional service, using appropriate vehicles, and all at a price that is sensible. It is geared to succeed.

My problem here isn't that ECPH is providing a new professional service. Because I am customer focussed. And those who understand their customers deserve to succeed. And I support them.

No, my problem is that a greedy, selfish hackney taxi trade, through restrictive practice, which denied those who work in the trade the right to share the wealth available, allowed companies like ECPH into the market in the first place. Had the hackney trade expanded, encouraged real competition, then the new taxi facility in the car park would be of the Hackney taxi variety. But, it isn't. And, I venture, will never be again.

So, congrats to ECPH. They deserve to succeed. And they will.

But, the real gem was Alan telling me that Central had initiated a court action against the council for allowing this to happen. My immediate thoughts carried me back to Central's last foray into court. The holiday they paid for brought a smile to my face.

Unsurprisingly the members have allowed their committee to spend their cash again on yet another fultile, "Don Quixote tilting at windmills", court extravaganza. Seems that central's members do not have the capacity to learn from their mistakes.

But they have energised the council. 12 Councillors visited the airport to see for themselves the results of their policy to deny taxi expansion, and encourage the expansion of private hire. They are now sowing what Councillor Keir and his supplicant Licensing Committee members sowed. Congrats to those scumbag politicians. And that is Private Hire dominating the hire car market in Edinburgh.

Anyway, Central, and I believe the Scottish Taxi Federation, are taking the council to task in court. WOW!!!

Central can't win. Let me say this again lest there is any doubt. Central can NOT win. Central's committee have embarked their membership on yet another expensive court loser. And i just adore this. Because this is little more than the servile sheep who are Central members deserve. Enjoy being royally rogered guys, and gals if any exist. Because you're about to take another deep insertion in your financial choccy box. And, I am PMSL.

Private ground. The airport management have a commercial right to conduct their own commercial affairs. And if they want to accord ECPH the facilities they have in the interest of servicing the needs of their customers, then NO court in the land is going to rock that boat. We're in a free market enterprise, or haven't you noticed. Unless the control freak City of Edinburgh Council have anything to do with it of course.

And the council are not going to be compromised by the courts either. No court in the land is going to place councils in a position where tax payers are going to be charged for a council interpreting the law as Edinburgh have here.

I just hope that Central get royally shafted here (again). Because the members' unwillingness to hold their own committee to account, to rein in its excesses, needs to come home to roost. I hope central are financial encumbered by this latest foray. I hope Central go to the wall. Because Central is the cancer of Edinburgh's taxi trade that needs to be excised.

And, as I understand it, unsurprisingly to me, Central is rife with the cancerous scourge of Freemasonry. I deplore ALL Freemasons. I despise Central's Freemasons.

ECPH will prevail. Central is an organisation on deathground, that just hasn't had the grace to realise it.

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"

Wrong again. Your idea of the hackney trade expanding would have ensured that no PH would be at the rank is miles off

The airport owners always wanted to have a choice of vehicles for the passengers to choose from. A survey conducted by the airport came to a conclusion that customers found it confusing between where to hire a taxi or a PH

ECPH didn't win the because of their profesionalism. They won because they provided the biggest fleet and could service what the airport wanted.

Had central not spat the dummy out and split up fts then both city and central would still be managing the airport rank alongside onward just like before

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Skull, "You are a police inspector, aren't you?"
Cab Inspector Smith, "Yes."
Skull, "So, are you going to tell Mr Taylor what his rights are?"
Smith, "And ... What rights?"