Long haul airline Virgin Atlantic has announced a unique initiative that will help its passengers find other travellers to share taxi rides into city centres across the world - saving both their wallets and ground carbon emissions.
The Taxi2 website will help match passengers who are on the same flight or whose flights arrive at a similar time, and are traveling to a similar part of a city, so they can share the taxi ride.
Passengers will simply need to log onto the service and input their flight and destination details and the website will match them with a suitable travelling companion.
They are then sent the details of the matched traveller and can decide whether to agree to the match and make arrangements of where to meet upon their flight arrival. Passengers can then print off a convenient Taxi2 sign from the website so they can locate each other at the airport.
The system will also match female travelers who only want female travelling companions. The programme is not limited to Virgin Atlantic customers and passengers on other airlines can share rides as well.
Dee Cooper, Director of Product and Service, Virgin Atlantic, saidd: "We are always looking at ways to help improve our passengers' journeys and this is a simple initiative which helps them to connect in a clever way. We expect this scheme to be popular with our passengers."
Ed Maklouf, founder of Taxi2, said: "We are delighted to be partnering with Virgin Atlantic for this scheme, and our expectation is that this simple, sensible way of saving money and cutting down congestion and carbon footprint will become common activity for air travellers worldwide."
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