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Not surprised. 16 million is fuck all. Swan Taxis parent company Comfort Delgro just bought 13Cabs and Cabcharge for 180 million.

How are Swan Taxis still going?

Still the biggest by far and just got much bigger. I recently returned to them . Had my own ODBS for just over a year but got sick of sitting around for 3 or 4 hours waiting for a job at the airport and all the bullshit that goes on there. Perth airport don’t give a fuck, DOT don’t give a fuck and taxi companies don’t give a fuck about poor driver behaviour. They pretend they do but in reality all they all care about is $$$.

I rarely go to the airport anymore except to drop. I don’t want to hang around with ignorant, uneducated, rude losers.

If you look at what’s happening around the world the days of getting a dirt cheap ride are numbered with governments everywhere bringing in laws to force these rideshare companies to properly compensate drivers for their services. The honeymoon is over. Ola has pulled out that didn’t surprise me one bit,was a poorly run Indian concern. Uber are arrogant mother fuckers and DiDi was pretty good but they stitched me up just before I went back to taxis. They are all unethical mother fuckers.

Fair enough but everyone I know uses rideshare now, I havent used a cab for years.

I use the train for airport now, I hate even driving there and after being extorted a small fortune for parking refuse to go near the place.

Don't mean to get off topic although need to agree about the airport parking. Needed to wait for an arriving flight a couple of months ago and the cost of parking is astronomical. Puts a real dampener on the whole place! Then again motorists are being ripped off everywhere else so I suppose the airport may as well get in on the act.

We recently travelled over east for 8 days and being from York we used the long term parking which cost $90. Got the shuttle bus to and from the terminal door. heading off again in mid may for nearly 4 weeks and the Long term parking is $97, so not too shabby. Agree that the short term cost is exorbitant

westaussieguy wrote:

Don't mean to get off topic although need to agree about the airport parking. Needed to wait for an arriving flight a couple of months ago and the cost of parking is astronomical. Puts a real dampener on the whole place! Then again motorists are being ripped off everywhere else so I suppose the airport may as well get in on the act.

You shouldn't have to pay anything WAG. It's signposted everywhere there is 1 hour free parking in the long term car parks. You shouldn't need to be there any earlier but if you do just park outside the airport. Key is once you communicate with your family or friends you are picking up, make sure they have their luggage and are waiting in the pick up area so they are ready to jump in so you can get out within 6 minutes.

Before this number plate recognition time limit boomgate system was introduced, the public would go and sit in the drop off and pick up areas for anything from 5 minutes to half an hour and when we tried to drop people off there was nowhere to pull up alongside the curb.

Now with this system in place we don't have that problem anymore.