Taxi From Departures No Longer Possible?

[nostrel]

theres a post on another forum that says taxis dropping off are nowlimited to the outer departures road and making it more difficult to hail a leaving taxi . is this the case ? leavers now have to haul their baggage across more traffic lanes ! inner lane only for private drop offs .

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"I drove out to Suvarnabhumi yesterday to pick up my sister in law and

her partner arriving on QF2 from London.

From Huay Khwaang to the airport was a leisurely 25 mins drive at 2pm.

I decided to drive to the car park buildings by way of the departures

level road, as I approached the terminal building the first thing I

noticed was that they have set up temporary metal barriers with guards

present on two of the left hand 4 lanes where the approach road divides

into 2 seperate roads, taxis are not allowed to enter the left hand

side road now and are waved away with their departing passengers to the

outer road, passengers get out of the cab there and then make their way

with their bags across the 4 lane inner road to get in to the terminal

building, only a minor irritation, but in my opinion it is designed to

further thwart passengers from getting a taxi into town from the

departure level,

My SIL came out of arrival gate C exactly 75 minutes after their flight

landed. The first Qantas QF2 crew had emerged from the arrivals door 1

hour after the flight landed, Arrivals door C only has one channel for

passengers to pass through and it was pandemonium as several flights

had landed within a few minutes of each other and a crush developed as

people tried to get through the waiting crowd milling around the

channel into the arrivals hall. People were shouting out "excuse us

please" "can you move in front please" but there was just not enough

room to disperse the number of passengers away from the arrivals area

channel quickly enough. Congestion was further compounded by people

stopping to look around for some indication of where the public taxis

are hidden, they looked in vain, there are *no* signs.

The arrivals hall is IMO a disaster area, poorly designed, and first

time incoming passengers are being manipulated and controlled by the

cynical limo people. A complete redesign is urgently needed.

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