Airline limousine operators welcome Superior Court resolution

The Airport Limousine Operators Association (ALOA) welcomes a decision granting an interim injunction to suspend a City by-law that would have barred them from picking up fares in Toronto effective February 1, 2008. "Since 1935 we have provided the traveling public high quality, reliable and courteous ground transportation to and from Pearson International Airport," said representative of the ALOA Louis Vittas. "Without this injunction, our operators would have been put away of business, some 2,000 jobs would be gone and customer choice and competition would suffer." In her decision, Madam Justice Wailan Low in the Ontario Supreme Court said that the city has taken on the right without any consultation and found evidence of bad faith and the availability of collateral for its adoption. "Pearson Airport serves the entire GTA and a fair and consistent licensing system that offers a range of ground transportation alternatives is in the best interest of the traveling public; licensing decisions should not be left to the City alone. We hope that Justice Low's decision will motivate City and Provincial policy makers to cooperatively develop such a system," added Vittas.