Airport Taxi runs.

Fuel and running costs = £180/day.

Cost of vehicle, loans etc.
Fuel
Licencing
Hire/reward insurance (£1500/year upwards)
Servicing, parts etc.
Advertising
etc.

probley clears around 400 awk,
gets 30k a year, pays out 20k a year

12 hour days

One of the problems at the moment is that a lot of people have been made redundant and have had the same idea.

To make it pay you need to get the work in.

Yeah would ideally buy an established outfit and try and develop.


Dont think the costs would be quite as high as suggested but would be happy with £400 a week tho dont want a get rich quick scheme.

I was also thinking of trying to trade a few estates to drivers too as I currently work in car sales and would guess I know more than your average person about this. Not sure how viable this would be??

The taxis that are ranked up at the airports have to pay the airport authorities for the priviledge.
Sure Manc airport charge around £2k

yep ..i can see a taxi driver...taking £200 a day and paying out £180.......get real idiots ........i know 2 in banstead 600k houses.

went from alicante to playa flamenca....65euro...same back....hired a 7 seater for 2 weeks 260euro left at airport...so yes airport runs worth a fortune...

went from alicante to playa flamenca....65euro...same back....hired a 7 seater for 2 weeks 260euro left at airport...so yes airport runs worth a fortune...

taxi drivers in the gutter in ireland,

spykes. see your local council about getting in on doing the school runs.

you,d be beter buying a merc sprinter and doing courier work
boxes pallets e.t c. dont do runners and dont get sick

Been told all I have to do is apply take a test £200 and then get my vehicle pit tested. Pretty sure you need license for carrying more passengers.

So insurance will be higher than usual. Cost of car and fuel would cost no more than £60 a day will be able to do about 500 miles on that much. round trip give or take is 125 miles.


And presumably you can right some of the fuel and cost of car and maintainance off against my tax bill ???

P.s would be bookings only so no hanging around bar delays etc. And I quite enjoy reading and as said could always go to the auctions 15 mile away to see if I could pick up any bargins to trade to the other drivers.

your living in dreamland m8,go out and have a look at home many mini cabs and taxis are rolling around on streets

TAXI for crediter

you need umpteen things if you want to be legal to do it .

a taxi driver doing airport runs making £200 a day? :0^

I have seen tax returns with pitiful earnings

:0^

woooooooooooot? :^o

:^0

punterfleecer... have you ever been very surprised by any tax returns? Professions I mean.

Getting bored of working in a betting shop. :(

chip shops do very well, obviously, the well run ones

and I don't mean Harry Ramsdens either, I mean well run independent ones

Cheers punter.

Chip shop eyyyyyyy ;\

find a town population of say 6,000 thats without a chip shop, open one up there and you'd be very rich soon

obviously it takes dedication, do you have any of that?

I'm very committed to a cause when it matters. It's just starting the cause that's my hurdle! I'm usually a pessimistic person.

well I dunno how much money you have

but here's a tip, if you open a chippy in a small town and sponsor the local football team...........KER-CHING!

always works

Got less than a grand to muck about with, so it's a non-starter. For a long time I'd say. :D

Thanks tho punter. I don't doubt that's great advice.

well food establishments often do very well, can you cook?

if so, cook in your own kitchen, advertise your number and hire a delivery driver and start from there! til you have saved the money! don't do it for too long or else you'll get caught :0)

why do my smileys not work? so annoying :^0

it had to work there eh?

try getting airport runs that fit in 8.30, 11.30, 14.30, 17.30, 20.30!

more like 8.30 so pass the 10 oclock one on, delayed coming out, held up on the m25, getting stressed as might not make the 13.00,

Very competitive pricing as someone will always do it cheaper!

Also not to much Airport work about this time of the year, ok in the summer.

oddly enough im a taxi driver,have a airport run to heathrow 2morrow 8am-have a guess how much and see if u think its well paid

its from worthing i should have said

I got a taxi from Bristol to Cardiff for £90

sounds a good price-for mr taxi man

got a taxi from Morden(South London) to Heathrow for £35

I dunno how far Worthing is away from heathrow

66miles

seeing as you're from Worthing, have you not bought a glass for Gregg's yet?, she not speaking to me

for 66 miles, I think £90 would be a fair price

oh join the club punter in that case,£90 would be a fair price but in fact its £65,talk about going cheap in the sales m8

I don't know how it is in the south but £65? thats cheap I would've thought

less than £1 a mile?

my cousin got a taxi from Glasgow to Dundee, I think 80 miles? again it was £90

I get a taxi fae here to Glasgow, 14 miles away for £15 which is meant to be cheap

a black cab is £30 for for 14miles here

£200 a day? Pfui.

im private hire and theres lots of compo-there lies the problem,and if any aussies are reading this,u guys are the tightest of the tight

i've never liked austrialians

well being in the taxi business isn't exactly the most profitable of businesses

as for the initial post, saying taxi drivers earn £200 a day minus costs, is living on cloud cuckoo land

i do 9hrs work and pleased to earn a ton

airport runs are brilliant as 1000s of customers are waiting to fly to fantasy island everyday .

nice to know

Are you still on the cabs Terry?