Adelaide Airport cabbie protest strands passengers for up to two hours The massive taxi line at Adelaide Airport. Picture: Twitter Source: adelaidenow TAXI drivers protested tonight at Adelaide Airport by refusing to pick up passengers. About 60 taxi drivers from a range of companies joined the protest against the new pick-up system at the airport, leaving dozens of passengers stranded for about two hours. South Australian Taxi Council president Jim Triantafyllou said the protest was over a glitch in the new pick-up system, which allows some drivers to jump the line of those waiting for fares. "They (drivers) work trying to make a dollar out there and unfortunately the issue escalated and a group of drivers decided to protest about the new system," he said. It really was a glitch within the system that the airport is checking out and we look forward to repairing it, if there was one. The public was inconvenienced, which was very unfair... they need to get home also but (the drivers) wanted to have a protest and wanted to be heard. The protest is now over.