City of Calgary determined to identify cab driver who refused teen at airport

The taxi line on the arrival level at Calgary International Airport

The City of Calgary Livery Transport Services has launched an investigation into the unknown taxi driver who refused to drive a teenage girl from the Calgary International Airport to an airport-area hotel early Sunday morning.

Ava Ludlow, 17, was travelling alone when her flight home to Ontario was cancelled late Saturday night after a blast of wintry weather hit Calgary. A hotel room was booked for the teen at a nearby hotel but she encountered full shuttle buses to the hotel and, after waiting a significant period of time, she elected to join the taxi line.

Ludlow said she waited nearly 90 minutes in the taxi line in freezing condition before she entered an Associated Cab. The driver asked the teen for her destination and allegedly told her to get out of the vehicle as he considered the trip to be not worth his time. The stunned teen did not get the driver’s name or the taxi number as she exited.

Source: CTV News Calgary