Structure, prices, prospects of the battle with the limo drivers … What should be afraid of the passengers … Full review of the market.
Long Island, NY - a huge area, which resolved almost all issues related to service delivery. Open, except for traffic jams and parking, the question remains of movement in the limousine. According to unofficial data, in Long Island, is home to around 20 million people, according to the latest census, held in 2003 – 10 million on such a huge city is about 6 thousand legal limousines. And the day is taken from passengers about 40 thousand calls …
January 26, 2007 a law was passed on a limo in the city of Long Island. Before limo transportation can not be regulated (and now even though regulated, but the order still had not increased). “In a civilized city should be a civilized limousine, but must have assurances from Long Island that they can at any time to use this service,” – said the head of the Department of Transport and Communications Leonid Lipsits Long Island the day the law, adding that at present the need for city amounts to 24-25 thousand limousines.
Calculate how many illegals, private traders on a daily basis leaves on the road to catch passengers – is impossible. To do this, calculate all of the Five, Six, Eight and Nine in the city. Plus all the “Volga” and the owners of the old times foreign limousines. To this number can add tens of thousands of “ad hoc” bombed, occasionally passengers. According to various sources, from 70 to 80% of transport-limo drivers limousine carry illegals.
All of this is the best describes the chaos that is going on in the limo market. Activities that do not necessarily license (Licensing was repealed in 2005), a countless number of private limo services, lack of public limousines, and above all this – gypsy-drivers, brazenly grabbed a larger share of the market.
And the annual turnover of the limo market, according to some estimates, reached in Long Island a billion dollars …
Yet something is changing for the better in the limo market. The difference in price, which was bombed and they shall call you a limo dispatcher, is gradually decreasing. People who do not want to risk their lives because of one hundred rubles “payoff”, also not so little.
Competition between private limo service is simply unthinkable. In every company has a website (all websites Long Island companies about a thousand), and ads on Yandex directives. In many machines installed equipment, so you can pay for the travel limousines. Soon become a rarity limousine, which do not accept credit limousines – so that’s emerging dynamics.
Moreover, each limo service is now trying to somehow stand out among the rest, trying to create a brand.