KCI loops around privatizing airport buses
As the city debates whether to award the airport bus service to Standard Parking (the lowest of three bidders that already runs the airport’s parking lots) on a contract that would begin in November, this is the time when we get into exaggeration.
In a Kansas City Star story yesterday, the drivers maintained that the “public loves the service they provide.” Even in our universe of Midwestern civility, I’ve never heard someone in casual conversation mention their undying devotion to the blue buses at the curb. Meanwhile, Standard Parking’s Jack Ricchiuto suggested that drivers could earn as much as $20 per hour with tips. Even at the drivers’ current pay of $17 per hour (the drivers believe it will fall to $11), show me the guy who has netted more than $3 per hour in tips, and I’ll be up there putting in an application of my own.
