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Speaker 1: Wellington Airport has suspended five taxi drivers from using its

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Speaker 1: taxi rank as punishment for them using the parents room

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Speaker 1: to heat up their dinners. The parents room is a

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Speaker 1: space where parents can change babies nappies and you know,

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Speaker 1: warm up the milk bottles and stuff like that. Now,

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Speaker 1: one of the Wellington Airport taxi drivers, who hasn't been

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Speaker 1: banned and wishes to remain anonymous.

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Speaker 2: Is with us now Hello, hello, honey, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. Now you heated your food

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Speaker 1: up in the parents room?

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Speaker 3: May yeah, I did, and I also did it after

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Speaker 3: asking two of the airport off shields in airport uniform

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Speaker 3: if we could heat the food in the microwave in

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Speaker 3: the parents room, and they happily said, and on mind,

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Speaker 3: as long as.

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Speaker 2: We cleaned up after and just because the cleaning ladies

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Speaker 2: they get pretty fu furious about it, so yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll be a cleaning lady getting furious. What's the

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Speaker 1: problem with you guys using the microwave for three minutes?

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Speaker 2: And that's the problem. I don't see as well, but

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Speaker 2: I think it's a food contamination or health and safety

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Speaker 2: risk for the newborn babies. And totally understand that where

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Speaker 2: they're coming from, and I respect that as.

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Speaker 4: Well, so isn't it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's absolute nonsense, because if you're like nobody,

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Speaker 1: every mom who's going to have a bottle in there

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Speaker 1: is going to have the bottle covered while they're heating

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Speaker 1: it up, aren't they?

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Speaker 2: That is true as well? Well?

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Speaker 4: I think reasonable, what do you think it?

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Speaker 2: They are being very unreasonable and they're just looking for

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Speaker 2: any reason to ban taxi drivers as at the moment

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Speaker 2: and the environment we are working, and they're just there's

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Speaker 2: a lot of factors involved. Maybe they're promoting Uber because

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Speaker 2: they are paying more money to the airport, and I

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Speaker 2: just think like it comes all back down to the

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Speaker 2: money for them.

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Speaker 3: And they are not generating enough revenue from the taxi robbers, maybe.

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Speaker 2: The taxi dribbers.

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Speaker 3: Okay they've banned.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're bantastic drivers for picking up a prayer from

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Speaker 2: number nine, whereas the similar company was not even available

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Speaker 2: in the front.

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Speaker 1: What's number nine?

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Speaker 2: Number nine is the number first page faces of the Oh, I.

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Speaker 4: See like people company, Yeah yeah, I see.

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Speaker 1: You're only supposed to pick up the people at the

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Speaker 1: front of the line, not not if your ninth and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, customer choosers. That's actually not the

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Speaker 2: driver chooses the customer.

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Speaker 4: They say that you have got a taxi cafe that

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Speaker 4: you can use, but that sounds to me like a

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Speaker 4: place where they sell you food rather than you being

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Speaker 4: able to bring in your own food and warm it up.

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Speaker 2: That is true, this little food and coffee.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, listen, thank you for this. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you explaining that to us. It's a Wellington near

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Speaker 1: Port taxi driver right now, it's twenty one away from six.

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