Quoting fish:

well i didnt know that thanks ade,
afferdersiniz su tariff yanlis mi
excuse me thats the wrong tariff isnt it-dogru?

Quoting bod:

Quoting Ade1:

Quoting erdinc:

Taxi's in Turkia charge double the rate when they are going to or coming from an airport.

The reason they and the authorities say is that airports are outside the residental area and they can't find and other passangers when they return.

This is totally stupid as they should not start charging you double while you are still in the city center. But they do.

What I do is that I go to the farest place with normall tarif. Then I change taxis. And only when I'm already close top the airport I start paying double.

Assuming the airport is 10 miles away from you and the reidental area (council districts) ends after 7 miles. When you take a taxi and tell him that you are going to the airport he will swich to the double rate immediately and will charge double for the whole 10 miles.

But instead if you say you are going to town X which is 7 miles away then he charges you normal but never mention the airport. If you do even though you want to get out on town X he will try changing you double for using the word airport (havaalanı.

Taxi drivers in Turkia and the department they are attached to are not among the most intelligent folks.
I once in a smillar situation took a taxi and told the man a place name in the city. The place was called "Pursaklar" in Ankara. It is within the area you can go for normal fare. We went there and everything was normal. I was about to leave the taxi. I had a huge suitcase. I told the man to stop near a taxi stop as I planned to swich to another taxi. He stopped and told me the price. It was the normal tariff. As I gave him the money I made the stupidest thing in my life and I asked him whether it would be possible to go the airport.
The taxi had air conditioning and the other ones in Pursaklar didn't have. They were all the old crappy models. The man suddenly changed his face. I used the critical word. I said airport. Now he told me that I should have told him from the beginning that I was going to the airport and he would have charged me accordingly. He was telling me that it was the rule to charge double when somebody goes to the airport.
But I said "let's assume I'm not going to the airport and I'm coming to Pursaklar. Now we are here and I will pay you the ragular tarif. Again assume I go out and another passanger stops you asking if you would go from Pursaklar to the airport. Would you?"
The man didn't understand a thing what I was telling. At the end I went crazy. I was shouting. There is no logic on the regulatons. It is totally nonsense. Then I changed the taxi and took one of the crapy ones.

Quoting bod:

Is there a standard rate for taxi's that is consistent across the country???

In England there can be upto 10 different rates in the same place - the maximum rate for "Hackney Carriages" is set by the local council but for private hire (which you have to pre-book) the rate are determined by local competition!

Quoting Ade1:

Quoting bod:

Quoting Ade1: Quoting bod: Is there a standard rate for taxi's that is consistent across the country??? In England there can be upto 10 different rates in the same place - the maximum rate for "Hackney Carriages" is set by the local council but for private hire (which you have to pre-book) the rate are determined by local competition! as far i know when you enter a cab in turkiye the machine sets off at 1.5 ytl,then it is charged by the mile,but i'm not sure how much it is,i suppose its how far around the houses they feel like taking you at that time