Published: Thursday, December 17, 2009
Port of Seattle switches airport cab company
SEATTLE — The Port of Seattle is giving the contract for exclusive rights to pick up customers at the airport to a different cab company.
For 20 years, drivers with the Seattle-Tacoma International Taxi Association, or STITA, held the exclusive contract. Other cab companies could drop people off, but only STITA drivers could pick up people on Port of Seattle property.
The port was forced to reopen the bidding for the contract this year — for the first time since 1989 — after a recent state audit.
Yellow Cab was the top bidder among six companies and will start airport service in September of next year. Yellow Cab will share 13 percent of its fees with the port, or more than $18 million over the life of the contract.
Information from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, www.seattle-pi.com/
For 20 years, drivers with the Seattle-Tacoma International Taxi Association, or STITA, held the exclusive contract. Other cab companies could drop people off, but only STITA drivers could pick up people on Port of Seattle property.
The port was forced to reopen the bidding for the contract this year — for the first time since 1989 — after a recent state audit.
Yellow Cab was the top bidder among six companies and will start airport service in September of next year. Yellow Cab will share 13 percent of its fees with the port, or more than $18 million over the life of the contract.
Information from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, www.seattle-pi.com/
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