CAA to Establish a Modern Taxi/Cab Service at Lahore Airport

[Abbas Ali]

Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) tender notice in today's (March 9) newspaper for the establishment and operation of modern taxi/cab service at Allama Iqbal International Air Port (AIIAP) - Lahore.

* The company should have a fleet of minimum 65 sedan cars of 2016 model with engine capacity of not less than 1300 cc.

* The taxi/cab must be yellow in colour as per international standard equipped with General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) based taxi meters, trackers, and navigation system to guide passengers with appropriate directions towards their destination.

* The company/firm operating taxi/cab service must have a Universal Access Number (UAN).



Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

Probably ataxi (ataxi.com.pk) launched in Lahore on February 16 meets these conditions?

Information about ataxi:

http://ataxi.com.pk/about-a-taxi/
http://ataxi.com.pk/our-services/

Abbas

[Abbas Ali]

According to corrigendum in today's (March 12) newspaper:

Kindly amend to read clause-2(b) of the above tender as under:

"Must have a fleet minimum 65 cars out of which at least 30 should be Sedan Cars of 2016 model with engine capacity of no less than 1300 cc duly registered in its name and carrying valid Regional Transport Authority (RTA) / Punjab Provincial Transport Authority (PPTA) certificate."



Abbas

[riz]

The problem at Lahore airport will never ever be sorted out.
These good for nothing initiatives are worthless.

[Abbas Ali]

Something is better than nothing.

Apparently movement of these taxis can be monitored/tracked/recorded and I think such feature will help passengers especially those coming from other countries in choosing them for safe, relaxed and comfortable travel instead of taxis without such devices. It will also help in ending or reducing incidents of taxi passengers getting robbed or kidnapped.

GPRS based taxi meter also good to prevent taxi operator from overcharging customer.

BTW, ataxi (ataxi.com.pk) with such devices already appears to be getting popular in Lahore and can be seen on major roads and in popular shopping areas of the city. Some days ago, I also saw an ataxi dropping a passenger in drop lane of Lahore Airport.

Abbas

[riz]

Imo there should be at least 200 brand new fully equipped taxis In addition to the existing ones at the airport. You must have seen the chaos at LHE if two flights land simultaneously. I once had to wait 2+ hrs to get a cab the other choice was a rickshaw.

ISB is way better in this case I don't know what is the problem specifically in Lahore city regarding taxis. Non existent in most areas even after so many prime minister peeli taxi and nadim e aala taxi schemes....