Adolfo Suárez-Madrid Barajas airport taxi drivers go hunting A dozen illegal drivers that capture customers outside the delimited areas and deceive visitors, newcomers to the capital. He tells so Telemadridwhich has contacted SundayMember of the Professional Taxi Federation of Madrid. “They are here daily, one of them threatened to death, so I’m playing it,” The taxi driver revealed to the Madrid channel.
The so -called ‘pirate’ taxi drivers are drivers that offer supposedly faster and cheaper alternatives, although later They charge more than the stipulated ratethus cheating on customers who capture in areas not authorized for them. In the slang, it is called the touch ‘.
The tension is such that one of the taxi drivers who has denounced these fraudulent practices has suffered an aggression. He is Sunday and, as explained in the program Good morning Madrid“there are 10 or 12 people” who They are at the “daily” airport: “We all know each other and they greet us and everything.”
The profile of the captors
Domingo explained that they exist Two types of ‘pirate’ taxi drivers: “On the one hand, there are those of a lifetime, colleagues who skip the line, the schedules and even the regulatory rates. On the other hand, there are the illegal ones that have captors in the lobby and take customers to the parking lot of the VTCs “.
Their work begins when travelers arrive at the airport and need to move to the city. The so -called “captors“They are offered, then, to take a VTC. They take the traveler to the parking lot and a commission is distributed to the driver. Then they cheat the client offering a faster and more expensive alternative, that super the established fixed rate -33 euros-.
The taxi driver denounces that “the responsibility is from Aena, who knows who they are but does nothing.” This type of illegal trips have become A habitual practice in Barajas. Some of these drivers lead customers “even their private vehicles” to offer them a cheaper price and then “take advantage of the ignorance of the traveler,” says Domingo.
More than one confrontation
To face them, some taxi drivers like Domingo They use their free days in hunting these individuals. He walks behind them and addresses them to inform the client of the illegality of that practice and the different transport options he could take.
But hunting them is not exempt from danger. This same week, Domingo suffered the aggression of a driver who left a stick on his back: “He shook me twice behind.” “And he threatened to death, so I’m playing it“He explains.
Domingo also warns of Risks which entails taking an illegal taxi for customers: “They have no liability insurance and in case of an accident, the client has to hump and denounce the driver.” Warns: “You don’t know where you ride. They can even be criminals.” Therefore, when you want to take a taxi at the airport, you must always do it In the official stops”
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