Taxis at Terminal 1 of BER Airport Photo: picture alliance/dpa
From Hildburg Bruns
It’s about time! The BER gets more taxis from the capital. Berlin’s Senator for Transport Bettina Jarsch (53, Greens) has already signed the agreement with the district of Dahme-Spreewald (LDS), which is responsible for the airport in Schönefeld.
► The number of drawn capital city taxis, which are also allowed to pick up passengers at BER, increases by 100 to 500. The others have to return empty. LDS is also trying to increase the number of its only 230 existing regional taxis with a BER license.
► In the evening – around 10 p.m. – the compulsion to use the zipper principle, according to which capital city taxis and LDS taxis have to alternate, should be lifted. Because there are too few district taxis, and the Berlin taxis, which are more numerous, therefore have to wait longer. “We deviate from the threading principle,” said Jarasch at an IHK event.
“A good step in the right direction,” says Leszek Nadolski, Berlin’s head of the taxi guild. “If a plane comes in around 6 p.m., the waiting time for the passengers is often one to two hours.”
However, the taxi expert does not assume that the new regulation will already defuse the waiting situation at the start of the holiday season.
