Excellent service!

We have received high rating for our service in the Alps provided by Oskars Manfelds and Vitalijs Galilejevs: "Hi guys, despite not having an Austrian phone number your service was great. The drivers were polite, knowledgable and we felt completely safe in their hands, no white knuckle rides. Please pass on our thanks to Oscar who picked us up from Innsbruck and our driver who returned us this morning. Sorry I forget his name. Should we need this service in the future we will book you with confidence." Mick B. / 28.1.2015

New license!

Congratulations to our colleague Toms Slisers on acquisition of PHD (Private Hire Driver) license!

Good luck!

Excellent service in the Alps

We have received high rating for our service in the Alps provided by Aivars Brikmanis and Davis Grietens:

"We used your service in December in Austria. Your service was fantastic and very professional. Look forward to meeting your staff again! "

Sally P./ 28.01.2015

Excellent service!

We have received high rating for our service in the Alps from Geneva Airport to Tignes provided by Ivars Indriksons:

"Hello!
We are very satisfied with your services. Is it possible to send us the same driver for 31 Jan? He is very responsible and nice man."

 

Anna/ 26.01.2015

 

Thanky you, Ivars!

Excellent service in the Alps

We have received a positive feedback for our service in the Alps (Zurich to Lech) provided by Roms Petrausks and Oskars Manfelds:


"Many thanks for your kind service and kind driver. It was very good experience for us and we will recommend your company to our friends and family.

We will see you next year!"

Yaron Shkedy/ 19.01.2015

Excellent service in the Alps

We have received a positive feedback for our service in the Alps provided by Aivars Brikmanis and Andrei Sergiu Bodea:

"Hello.
On behalf of all our group of skiers I want to thank your company for a comfortable transfer.  It is always nice when people do their work  with a high quality. I think I will use services provided by your company in future.Thank you!"

Best regards from Kiev
Yelena

"Здравствуйте.
От имени всей нашей группы лыжников хочу поблагодарить вашу компанию за комфортную доставку. Всегда приятно, когда люди качественно выполняют свою работу. Думаю,в дальнейшем буду пользоваться именно вашими услугами. Спасибо."

С наилучшими пожеланиями из Киева
Елена.

Cabbies Keep Uber, Addison Lee Out of Bus Lanes

 

Private car-hire services suffered a legal setback yesterday as the European Union’s top court backed the exclusive right of London’s iconic black cabs to share some traffic lanes with buses.

Judges at the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg said rules favouring the black cabs are legal because of differences between the services, including black cabs’ ability to pick up passengers that hail them without a booking. The ruling will be a blow to the Addison Lee unit that brought the challenge and other black-cab rivals, such as Uber Technologies.

A unit of Addison Lee, which operates more than 4,800 cars in central London, filed the lawsuit in today’s case seeking the right of its drivers to also get access to the fast-track routes, which only buses and licensed black cabs can use.

Addison Lee and Uber declined to comment on today’s ruling. Transport for London, the city’s transport agency, didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

A London court sought the EU tribunal’s view on whether excluding private taxi companies from using the lanes is illegal state aid. The Addison Lee unit sued in London after some of their drivers were fined for using bus lanes, arguing the prohibition violated the freedom to provide services and was illegal state aid to black cabs.

The EU ruling will be reviewed by London judges before the U.K. court issues a final decision in the case.



Source: Bloomberg Brief

How to.....

How to survive in the slippery weather conditions? :)

Excelent service in the Alps

We have received high rating for our service in the Alps provided by Ilja Kunica and Vitalijs Galilejevs:

"I would like to thank your team for the excellent & kind service.
I will spread our great satisfaction from Alps2Alps. Thanks!"

/ Zahi/ 12.01.2015

  

Excellent service in the Alps

We have received a positive feedback for our service in the Alps provided by Ivars Indriksons:

"Добрый день! Хочу выразить огромную благодарность сотруднику вашей компании , к сожалению, известно только его имя - Иварс, фамилию не знаю. Дело в том, что он осуществлял трансфер нашей компании из Женевы в Валь д'Эзер 27.12.2014, нас было 12 человек , а том числе двое маленьких деток, огромный багаж на прицепе, 14(!) часов Иварс мужественно вез нас по жуткой пробке, в ужасных дорожных условиях! С готовностью решал текущие бытовые проблемы! Большое спасибо, Иварс, Вы - настоящий профессионал! С уважением от всей нашей компании,
 Елена"

Thank you Ivars for the excellent job!

Sweets

"All I need is Amitours X-mas sweets!" :)

Thanks to Raivo Mikelsteins for sharing with us!

Birthdays in January!

Happy Birthday!

09.01 Edmunds Sulcs
10.01 Arnis Lasmanis
11.01 Raitis Bullitis
11.01 Vladimirs Pomikanovs
13.01 Horia Lazarel Craciunim
16.01 Viesturs Skrickis
17.01 Florian Mustata
23.01 Toms Marcinkevicus
25.01 Romans Fedorenko
28.01 Anastasija Citajeva
30.01 Juris Sirmonts

Loyalty program!

Loyalty program was introduced in January 2013, with purpose to motivate our drivers and strengthen customer loyalty.

Each driver received loyalty cards with assigned code on them. Drivers can give these cards to all their existing and prospective customers. If customer indicates the specific loyalty code that appears on the card when making the reservation, he gets a discount and driver gets a commission.

Congratulations to the leaders of December:

1st place - Maris Aboltins

2nd place - Gatis Jakubanecs
3rd place - Modris Kandavnieks

Please be active and give loyalty cards to all your customers! It is a great opportunity to earn extra money!

Excellent service in the Alps

We have received a positive feedback for our service in the Alps provided by Reinis Rabsa:

"I wanted to contact you to say thank you for the service provided and especially to your driver who transported us from Val Thorens to Chambery on Saturday 27th December 2014. We spent 11 hours travelling just 40 km down the mountain then the extra hour on to Chambery where he ensured we found the emergency accommodation. He was courteous, friendly and helpful at all times. A great credit to your company."

Matthew Osborne & family/ 27.12.2014

Thank you, Reinis from whole our team!

Customer feedback

We have received a positive feedback from our customer Alexander K. for service provided by Andrei Sergiu Bodea in the Alps on the 2nd of January.

Thank you, Andrei!

Excellent service in the Alps

We have received high rating for our service in the Alps provided by Arturs Ikonnikovs:

"First of all many thanks managing to arrange the successful transfer for my family to Belle Plagne on Sunday during very difficult times due to the adverse weather conditions from the day before. Your driver Artur (having to guess the spelling!) did a very good job of getting us here using the small roads."

Steve M. / 28.12.2014



Excellent service!

We have received high rating for our service in the Alps provided by Roms Petrausks and Vitalijs Galilejevs:

"Just wanted to say a big thank you for the transfers from and to Zurich. The drivers were there on time on both locations and drove extremely well. We will definitely use your company again."

Pat M. / 30.12.2014

Excellent service in the Alps

We have received high rating for our service in the Alps provided by Janis Kurmis:

"I am writing to thank your driver Janis Kurmis for his care in delivering us safely to La Clusaz on Saturday. As you know the weather was poor and many people were not as lucky as us.
If Janis is free to do our return journey we would be pleased to see him again. If not please extend our thanks to him."
 

Chris C./ 27.12.2014

Excellent service in the Alps

 

We have received high rating for our service in the Alps provided by Oskars Matisons and Liviu-Vlad Birau:

"We would like to complement you on your service, both from the office and your drivers (Oscar on 26th and another this morning). The service has been efficient and both of the drivers were professional, helpful and friendly.

We would have no hesitation in using Alps2Alps in future and are very happy to recommend you". 

Steve, Julie & Tabbie/ 26.12.2014, 29.12.2014

 

Excellent service in the Alps

We have received high rating for our service in the Alps provided by Jurgets Gulans:

"Thanks,we made the flight in good time. Please note that our driver (can't remember his name but he was Latvian) was excellent."

Mark B./28.12.214

Amitours Christmas tree in Paris!

Thanks to Armands Tumss for the photo! :)

Excellent service!

123 Drivers team had organized lottery some time ago. The winner was Ineta Udre and she had a great time in Paris!

She sends warm greetings to our conversant guide Aleksandrs Sandors, and polite and punctual drivers Vadim Velicko and Valdis Sudmalis.

Thanks to Ineta for the nice feedback!

Special thanks to Aleksandrs, Vadim and Valdis for their amazing service provided!

Excellent service!

 

We have received the first season testimonial for our service in Alps provided by Janis Kurmis:

"Just want to say we had great service from Janis Kurmis who dropped us off on Wednesday." Nello P. /20.12.2014


Thank you, Janis!

Best wishes to our customer!

Excellent service!

We have received high rating for our service in London provided by Maris Aboltins:

"My friend and I ordered a transfer last night from Stansted to West London. I wanted to say that the driver Maris Aboltins was exemplary and have already recommended your company to my colleagues for future transfers. Maris was extremely polite and courteous and very professional. Definitely the best airport transfer I have had in London! So thank you." / Joan L. 14.12.2014

Thank you, Maris! You are the best!

Merry Christmas from Kabbee!

Kabbee sends Christmas wishes to our London colleagues!

 

Many thanks!

New licenses!

Congratulations to our colleagues Anatolijs Milinavics, Vladimirs Milinavics and Anrijs Reinholds on acquisition of PHD (Private Hire Driver) license!

 

AHHAA science center

Some time ago, our colleagues' children had the opportunity to participate in a drawing contest. The winner has already received the prize: a trip to AHHAA science center in Estonia.

Look at these amazing pictures taken there and good luck in future competitions!

P.S. Thank you, Liga!

"Dino" game!

Our colleague have captured some funny pictures with our "Dino"! Unfortunatelly, we do not know who he or she is. We must ask for your help to figure out who is the "Dino"?

All you have to do is to comment what is the name and surname of the person. We will be waiting for your predictions until 8th of December (Monday). 

We will pick the winner out of those who guessed right. The lucky one will receive 10 miles transfer voucher for using in London!

 Let the game begin!

Ask your question!

Dear colleagues,

You are more than welcome to ask us questions regarding your work and vacation. In order to do so, please write an email to: jautajums@123drivers.co.uk. If the question will be applicable to everyone, we might reply you and other in our 123 Drivers blog.

Your opinion is very important not only for us to improve companies' startegy in future but also for you - yourself. In order to better understand employment conditions, legal statuss and vacation application procedure. Be active and in any case do not hesitate to contact us.

 

123 Drivers & Amitours

Promo codes!

Loyalty program was introduced in January 2013, with purpose to motivate our drivers and strengthen customer loyalty.

Each driver received loyalty cards with assigned code on them. Drivers can give these cards to all their existing and prospective customers. If customer indicates the specific loyalty code that appears on the card when making the reservation, he gets a discount and driver gets a commission.

Congratulations to the leaders of November:

1st place - Ilmars Samsonovs

2nd place - Artis Tunens
3rd place - Ainars Kalnins

Please be active and give loyalty cards to all your customers! It is a great opportunity to earn extra money!

Unusual hobby

Article about some taxi driver Mike Harvey with an unusual hobby.

Read here and think about people you meet every day. Maybe you can start to collect memories of your daily work in any kind of expressions - photos, videos and adventure stories, to make it more extraordinary. :)

And do not forget to share your experience with your colleagues by e-mail: info@123drivers.co.uk

New license!

Congratulations to our colleagues Arturs Lagzdins on acquisition of PHD (Private Hire Driver) license!

 

Good luck!

 

 

 

 

123 Drivers & Amitours team

Excellent service!

We have received high rating for our service in London provided by Arturs Kruze:

"I wanted to get in touch to pass on some feedback from my Director who was collected by yourselves 11st of November from the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane. He was very impressed with the service provided and noted that the driver was excellent in arranging where to meet and the seamless and excellently driven ride home. We will certainly be keeping your details for any of our future travel requirements."

Thank you, Artur!

123Drivers & Amitours team

Excellent service @WTM14

Our driver Mairis Pune had a honor to transport the "Hard Rock Cafe" executive stuff - Manager of London, Regional Director for Europe and Chief Marketing Officer - to WTM 2014 exhibition in London.

They all are very imperessed with service provided by us.

Thank you, Mairis from whole our team!

Perfect demonstration @WTM14

Yesterday our driver Gatis Jakubanecs held a transport demonstration to our Spanish partners in London, WTW 2014.

Thank you, Gatis! Everything was perfect! :)

New license

Congratulations to our colleague Signe Gaigalina on acquisition of PHD (Private Hire Driver) license!

Good luck!  

 

123Drivers & Amitours team

New license

Congratulations to our colleague Santis Plutovs on acquisition of PHD (Private Hire Driver) license!

Good luck!  

 

123Drivers & Amitours team

Excellent service!

We have received high rating for our service in London provided by Lauris Kiukucans:

"Great service all round, very professional, great driver, great value"

Thank you, Lauris!

Best wishes!

Happy Birthday wishes to our colleague Janis Meiers!


May this day is full of positive emotions and colleague greetings!

123 Drivers & Amitours team

New licenses

Congratulations to our colleagues Dagnis Boltrikovs, Ernests Rasa, Uldis Sukulis and Edmunds Veinbergs on acquisition of PHD (Private Hire Driver) license!

Good luck!  

 

123 Drivers & Amitours team

New license

Congratulations to our colleague Janis Meiers on acquisition of PHD (Private Hire Driver) license!

Good luck!  

 

123 Drivers & Amitours team

Loyalty program

Loyalty program was introduced in January 2013, with purpose to motivate our drivers and strengthen customer loyalty.
Each driver received loyalty cards with assigned code on them. Drivers can give these cards to all their existing and prospective customers. If customer indicates the specific loyalty code that appears on the card when making the reservation, he gets a discount and driver gets a commission.

Congratulations to the leaders of September:

1st place - Maris Aboltins

2nd place - Ojars Pukitis
3rd place - Vilnis Dzerve

Please be active and give loyalty cards to all your customers! It is a great opportunity to earn extra money!

New licenses!

Congratulations to our colleagues Juris Sirmonts and Vladimirs Pomikanovs on acquisition of PHD (Private Hire Driver) license!

Good luck!

 

123 Drivers & Amitours team

Excellent service

We have received high rating for our service in London provided by Mikelis Mikelsons from Heathrow Airport in 25th of September. Client: Martyn B.


Thanks to Mikelis for the service!

Great service!

We have received high rating for our service in London provided by Rolands Karavackis from 6 Arne House, 113 Tyers Street in 1st of October. Client: Adedeji B.

 

Thanks to Rolands for the service!

Excellent service!

We have received high rating for our service in London provided by Mairis Pune from King's Cross Train Station in 1st of October.

"Wonderful driver, very patient with funding his car and then with traffic. Very nice guy."

/Adriana R.

 

Thanks to Mairis for the service!