Prime Taxi: Always There When You Need a Taxi...and no fare hike (yet?!)

First a disclaimer: this post is not sponsored by Prime Taxi. A free ride for a lifetime will be nice, though. Hur hur.

I just cannot resist not to blog about this particular taxi operator. Especially so because Prime Taxi is the only one which has not decided whether to raise its fares like the rest of operators.

So delete all other taxi operators' booking hotline from your phone, and register this no instead: Prime Taxi's Dial-A-Taxi @6778-0808.

I will strike off all the content above if Prime Taxi decided to succumb to its 'peer pressure'. Snigger.

Trans Cab, Premier, Smart Automobile and Yellow Top have notified the Public Transport Council of their decision to raise their taxi fares.

Their move comes after ComfortDelGro and SMRT raised their fares last Monday and today respectively.

Trans Cab, Singapore's second largest taxi operator, will raise its flag-down rate from 20 to 70 cents, depending on the type of taxi, from Jan 3, 2012.

It will also revise its fees for taxi bookings, reducing it by 20 cents for some types of taxis, and increasing it from $8 to $10 for the Mercedes Benz taxis.

Like ComfortDelGro and SMRT, these four taxi operators will also extend the peak periods for which surcharges apply. Peak hours for Trans Cab will follow that of ComfortDelGro - 6am to 9:30am on weekdays, and 6pm to 12 midnight everyday.

The peak-hour surcharge will be lowered to 25 per cent of meter fare, down from the current 35 per cent of meter fare.

Premier, Smart Automobile and Yellow Top have yet to release details of their fare revisions.

The move by these operators leaves only one taxi company, Prime Taxis, which has not decided whether to raise its fares.

From Asiaone, "4 more taxi operators to raise fares".