There will be only legal taxi in “Borispol”. ”Picker-upper” is kept out by “Berkut”
At the airport "Borispol" there was a single taxi. The airport authority signed with the company "Elite-taxi" contract for service of passengers. New taxi drivers take more than the previously established rates, but in the car you can pay by credit cards and recharge your mobile. Illegal taxi drivers at the airport ride by "Berkut".
New taxi. It carries more than indicated in the information display terminal, but with comfort. Photo: Yuri Kuznetsov
CHILL AND TERMINAL. Taxi drivers working at nterminals "B" and "F". It looks like in Europe: in front of the airport passengers waiting for the car checkered, the passenger gets in the car and immediately considered the fare — it is displayed on the scoreboard. "We have every car has such devices, the is counted by the program. This eliminates any cheating" — told us one of the taxi drivers Vladimir. Another innovation — availability of payment by credit card directly in the car and even the ability to recharge your mobile. "We have all cars — foreign cars not older than 5 years, with the technical inspection, air conditioning, licensed," say the taxi drivers.
"PICKER-UPPER". To outsiders taxis could not drive to the airport, all legally issued magnetic cards which open the barrier to entry. Dispatcher at the airport by Handsfree suggests passengers to choose only legal taxis. And with illegal drivers deal a "Berkut". We witnessed, as a private driver arranged to travel with the foreigner, and led him to the parked in the Parking lot (an hour costs 20 UAH) car. Suddenly, it flew "Berkut" and began to explain to the foreigner that he will be driven illegally. Guest of the city faint from fear ... and went to the bus. Ukrainians react to it calmly: "What a difference to me personally, legally or not? So, I go to the Kharkiv highway. In your new taxi it costs 184 UAH and with this driver I am on the same car will pay 160. And why should I pay more?". "If a person agrees to go with illegal taxi driver, while saving 10 UAH and forgetting about their own safety, it's his choice", — said the press service of "Boryspil".
PRICES. Travel in the new cab is really little more expensive than the prices shown on the large map at the airport (here the price from 160 to 240 UAH). Now they are guided only illegal taxi is. "Our work has become less, but not much. Because most people want to go on described in the table rates and these carry more. Therefore, people come up to us," — told us one of the illegal taxi drivers Nikolay. He felt that the center will take over 220 UAH, and on a Bol'shaya Okruzhnaya — for 240. At the same time, a new cab counted us 249 and 271 UAH respectively. However, there is a third, the most profitable option — to call a taxi to the airport through one of the taxi services. These will carry to Independence square for 160-180 on a Bol'shaya Okruzhnaya 170-200. But it will need to pay for Parking-10 UAH, if the waiting time is more than 10 minutes.
ILLEGALS STILL RUIN THE LIVES OF
In "Borispol" they say that on 1 September a contract was signed with a private carrier. "The company has passed the competition and appeared the best of all defined criteria," — told us the press Secretary of the airport Oksana Ozhigova. But she says the problem with illegal immigrants, despite the assistance of the police and the Ministry of Infrastructure still remains. "Triggered the human factor, the question of the interaction of ordinary police officer with the taxi drivers," says Ozhigova.
Anastasia Bratkova - Segodnya.ua
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