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Originally Posted by Crisis
Just as an update to my post above, I arrived back in Saskatoon to an absolute taxi clusterf*ck at the airport yesterday.
There were two flights arriving within 5 minutes of each other at about 5:45 pm. We get our luggage and head out to get a taxi, not concerned as one generally sees a line of them waiting to pull ahead and pick up passengers. Not yesterday - We ended up in the middle of a 40-50 person lineup waiting for taxis as there were no cabs at the airport. How the taxi company can screw things up this badly is beyond me. It's not exactly rocket science to see when the flights are arriving (not when scheduled to arrive, but when they are actually arriving) and arrange to have a number of cabs waiting at the airport.
The already irritable group of people was made even more angry when the couple in line immediately ahead of us left the lineup to go grab a cab that that they had phoned for pickup right after landing and was supposedly pulling up to the pickup area right then. There were two cabs arriving at the same time, one of them may or may not have been the one that they'd summoned, but they didn't make friends out of the 20 or so people who they had cut in front of. When our cab finally arrived as part of a influx of 6 cabs at once, the driver explained that part of the problem is that the day drivers and night drivers have their shift change at 6pm, exactly when the cabs were required.
At least everyone was able to wait in the large vestibule that is there for that purpose. Would have been crappy to have to wait outside with no heaters. Further to that, I had to wait outside, but in a shelter, at the Toronto airport recently and really appreciated the infrared heater there. I may be changing my thoughts on the need for heaters at the Saskatoon airport.
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The taxi situation at YXE is always a cluster. When there’s only one option, there’s no need to be efficient or customer orientated. Hopefully that changes with the ride sharing options coming to saskatoon. Curious if the airport will add ride sharing pick up and drop off locations like they do at most major airports?
As well, took a Taxi on January 14 and noticed the airport authority, effective January 1, had added a $4 surcharge for every taxi cab pickup. This was then changed to flat rate pricing on January 17 (which includes a $2 airport surcharge). The flat rate pricing is cheaper (to my area of the city) than the standard taxi fare (even with the $2 surcharge) so looks like the taxi companies are taking a hit here. I wonder if this is also in response to the pending ride sharing companies coming to YXE?
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