PUNE: Businessman Saurabh Prakash, who came to Pune from Delhi early in June, found himself staring at his phone for 40 minutes outside Pune airport, while cabbies continued to cancel his ride one after another. Nearly an hour later, he had no option but to take an autorickshaw to Shivajinagar for Rs800. "Six cabbies cancelled my ride after accepting it. I had landed in Pune in the wee hours and found no one who could help me. There were a few autorickshaws outside and the one I took quoted a little lower fare than the rest," Prakash said.
Another female flyer, who chose to stay unnamed, told TOI she paid Rs700 from airport till Model Colony earlier this month. Little did she know that midway, the auto driver would ask her to get into another autorickshaw as he had somewhere else to go.
