One of the many sectors harmed by the advancement of the curfew in Mallorca is that of the taxi. Although, being an essential service they can continue working, the problem is that now, from ten o’clock at night, they have no customers.
And this is in addition to the few clientele after the closure of nightlife and the lack of tourists. They lose two hours of billing in a situation already with very little activity.
The demand is so low that the government It only allows activity to 20% of the taxi fleet in the Balearic Islands. In other words, taxi drivers work only one out of every five days. And during this day in which they can circulate, the turnover, they say, is minimal.
The situation they suffer is dramatic: “Fewer people, less work, less billing … this is so. With the little that was earned, now less. We are going backwards,” he says. Antonio, a taxi driver from Palma. “Two hours less than we will work, within the little that is worked“, the Mint William, another taxi driver from the Balearic capital.
“Business is bad in itself, because there is no movement and with the curfew advancing, even worse. It is very complicated, there are days that we do not even get to pay for gasoline,” he says Octavio to the microphones of La Ser.
They criticize that they do not receive aid from the institutions. The only horizon that the taxi sector clings to is an improvement in the epidemiological situation and that, in this way, the Balearic Islands can be sold as a safe destination as of March.
A new tourist season, with which to save the furniture. And it is that, until tourists start arriving and restrictions are relaxed restaurants and nightlife, foresee a very harsh winter.
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