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Re: Qantas 'Limousine' Service
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Originally Posted by Skyring
Ah, that would be me. If you use a card to pay a fare, there's 11% added on. This all goes strait to the bank and the poor old cabbie gets none of it. This information should be displayed inside the cab or on any booking website.
I thought it was displayed in most cabs on the sticker that shows charges. May just be certain states where I've seen it.
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Re: Qantas 'Limousine' Service
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Originally Posted by serfty
Agreed
The SkyBus takes no more than 25 minutes between the City and MEL. Aside from the early morning hours it departs every 10 minutes on Mon, Wed, Fri & Sun and 15 Mins Sat, Tue & Thu.
Three guys coming to OZFest decided to share a Cab from MEL to the city; they mentioned later the total fare was over $80! This should have been around $45. After querying this it seems the taxi driver took advantage of their lack of MEL knowledge and went via the 'western ring road', adding over 20km and 20 mins to the travel with a correspondingly inflated fare.
Skybus is a good cheap service. I like the way you can get a feeder bus to your city hotel included in the fare.
I hate hearing stories of overcharging. It's totally wrong. One, the cabbie is inconveniencing the passenger by taking a longer time than really needed. Two, the passenger has to pay for the inconvenience.
I tell my passengers that if they think they are being ripped off, just pull out their cellphone and video the cabbie explaining himself. It's one thing to bamboozle passengers, another thing to justify the spiel to the fleet manager - or the police.
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Ah, that would be me. If you use a card to pay a fare, there's 11% added on. This all goes strait to the bank and the poor old cabbie gets none of it. This information should be displayed inside the cab or on any booking website.
I am sure you mean by 'the bank', you mean 10% goes to Cabcharge, and the 1% is the GST on that, which will swirl through the system on the way to the govt.
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Re: Qantas 'Limousine' Service
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Originally Posted by oz_mark
I am sure you mean by 'the bank', you mean 10% goes to Cabcharge, and the 1% is the GST on that, which will swirl through the system on the way to the govt.
Well, from my point of view, it's whoever's on the other end of the electronics that clutter up my bit of the car. It doesn't find its way into my pocket, except indirectly in the sense that people with bank cards are able to pay fares.
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A booking fee of $11. Is this only in Canberra? If I remember correctly the booking fee in Sydney is ~$1.80 for Silver Service or any other taxi.
$1.80 sounds like the flag fall charge. This usual changes between peak and off peak times, being more expensive in off peak times (night/weekend). It is set as part of the fare structure by government and is a fee to cover the convenience of having taxis available, i.e. sitting around on taxi ranks, not earning money waiting for your to hire them.
In some states, (i.e. QLD), you pay extra on top of the flagfall when you make a phone booking. To cover the extra for the cab to get to your house from the taxi rank. In SA their is no extra for phone booking but the flag fall is about $3.
Now the $10/$11 is the charge from Silver service for booking one of their cars. This is only charged for a phone booking via the silver service system. If you hire them via the taxi systems - rank or phone the taxi company - you pay the normal taxi fee. If you read silver service website, the $10 is to pay for the rarity of SS drivers and cars. My dad used to drive SS and there where limited drivers of that vehicle. Booking one for a special time might mean that the driver is just there out of normal shift time for the one job or that the owner might be doing the job.
$1.80 sounds like the flag fall charge. This usual changes between peak and off peak times, being more expensive in off peak times (night/weekend). It is set as part of the fare structure by government and is a fee to cover the convenience of having taxis available, i.e. sitting around on taxi ranks, not earning money waiting for your to hire them.
Unless I am totally confused I have never paid $11 to book a silver service taxi. The flagfall is something like ~$4.20 and the booking fee, whether by phone or internet, is ~$1.80. The taxi fare from my place to SYD T1 and vice versa is ~$25 and that is all I have ever paid even when I have booked a silver service taxi.
This should have been around $45. After querying this it seems the taxi driver took advantage of their lack of MEL knowledge and went via the 'western ring road', adding over 20km and 20 mins to the travel with a correspondingly inflated fare.
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