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Taxi driver's daily battle running the gauntlet in chaos-hit Manchester Airport
03.07.2022 - 10:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
In a job where “time is money,” taxi drivers at Manchester Airport have been running the gauntlet this summer. The under-fire flight hub has suffered months of delays, cancellations, and baggage issues, resulting in thousands of angry customers and holidaymakers.
But the airport is an important source of income for more than just the airlines - and therefore problems with it go further than just affecting travellers. John Scarlett, 34, regularly takes customers to and from Manchester Airport with his company JMS Topgear Travel, sometimes making as many as six trips to the flight hub in one day.
But the issues at the airport mean John is sometimes left waiting for hours before picking up clients - something that has serious implications for his business.
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“For taxi drivers at the airport, time is money,” he told the Manchester Evening News . “We can’t afford to be sat there waiting.”
John said the usual wait time from touchdown on the tarmac to the family emerging is around 45 minutes - but he has been forced to wait more than two hours to collect travellers on a string of occassions.
“Obviously that has a knock-on effect with your following bookings,” he said. “I can book six journeys a day. But then you get one delay and then you can’t do all your jobs, and you’re rushing around trying to find a backup driver that can do your second or third job.”
The father, who is in his fourth year running his independent business, also called the Terminal 2 West car park pickup point an “accident waiting to happen,” with passengers walking out in front of cars and drivers blocking the way.
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