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| Subject: Good for them: Austrian taxi drivers fare well in migrant crisis Sun Sep 27, 2015 3:18 am | |
| The flood of migrants may be causing a strain elsewhere in Europe, but taxi driver Mohammed, who earns as much as 450 euros ($500) a day driving refugees from the border to Vienna, is a happy man.
"I charge 150 euros to get to Vienna. It's a fixed rate no matter how many passengers there are," the smiling, Austrian-born 30-year-old tells AFP as awaits his next customers. "I do two or three trips per day."
"Before this all started, drivers would be lucky to earn 150 euros in a 12-hour shift in Vienna. I don't mind waiting sometimes five or six hours at a time because I know I will get a fare."
Here at the Nickelsdorf crossing point, a long line of between 130 and 140 taxis snakes back from the border, waiting for the next train to disgorge its latest cargo of people on the Hungarian side, who then walk across.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/29645061/austrian-taxi-drivers-fare-well-in-migrant-crisis/ |
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