Manila Taxi Meter Rates / Fare Increase for 2012
Another bad news for 2011 along with the SLEX, NLEX and SCTEX toll fee hikes, impending MRT, LRT and PNR fare and skyrocketing (and really aboveboard gasoline prices), starting January 14, 2011, taxi fares will increase.
The present metered taxi fare is pegged at P30.00 for the first 500 meters with P2.50 for every succeeding 300 meters plus P2.50 every two minutes of idle/waiting time and last increased years ago.
The impending 2011 taxi fare increase is now 33% more for the flagdown rate and 40% increase for every succeeding 300 meters (and possibly for the waiting/idle time)
P40.00 flag down rate for the first 500 meters
P3.50 for every succeeding 300 meters
Manila Airport Taxis:
P70 for the flagdown rate for the first 500 meters
P4 for every succeeding 300 meters
yellow cab: the manila airport metered taxi (sighted in Frisco, QC)
There posts here with estimated taxi fares to/from various points of metro Manila. Will update posts from time to time.
Even if Tutubi no longer takes the taxi regularly, he can still estimate taxi fares from different points in Metro Manila particularly from Manila airport terminals (NAIA), Makati, Ortigas Center (Pasig) and Quezon City (Munoz, Trinoma mall and SM City North EDSA area) so he can detect tampered taximeters, called batingting, installed by miscreant taxi drivers that should have been flushed out by the LTFRB (via thei useless LTFRB hotline splattered on public utility vehicles including cabs)
Updated: November 2011
