Heathrow Update

March 2023

Agenda

1 Minutes from Previous meeting

2 Feeder Park Entry FeeORC

3 Investment in TFP (South feeder park resurfacing)

4 £1M sustainable travel fund

5 Heathrow document (Taxi/PH section).

6 Tariff inc Fair Fares Review

7 Compliance issues

8 Reps (Booking in for meetings) SLA

9 Taxi Desk Operation SLA

10 Marshals SLA

11. Car Park Wardens SLA

12 APCOA (Agents etc)

13 Canteen Dot Matrix

14 Canteen Access

15 Canteen (service and quality)

16 Vending machine outside of canteen area

17. Gents shower.

18 Lost Property

19 Speeding

Taxi Trade Reps met Heathrow Airport’s Officers on the 8th of March, 2023, for the latest in a series of meetings to discuss how much the entry fee to the taxi feeder park would be and under what arrangement it would be charged HAL were told by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to leave the taxi feeder park in the same non-profit making agreement that it had been under, following a long-awaited decision by the aviation regulator Trade Reps made representations to the CAA last year, but were left waiting for the announcement, which had been delayed HAL had wanted to move taxis into a commercial agreement that could have seen the fee raised so that HAL had yet another revenue stream.

Trade Reps had raised objections to this and were fearful that the CAA might not listen to us and allow HAL to move us into a Commercial agreement

Trade Reps also reiterated our objections to the Terminal Drop Off Charge (TDOC) that has been fraught with problems - mainly at T3 - that has seen drivers charged for Drop Offs that have not happened The system has been so bad that HAL are now saying that the Inter Terminal Transfer (ITT) exemption that taxi drivers get will now be removed because HAL cannot fix the