The cost of all taxis booked through I-GTM is added to the school bill, removing the need for your child to provide cash or a credit/debit card payment. If you don’t express a preference for a particular school taxi supplier, the booking will be allocated amongst the school’s roster of regular suppliers and you will […]
Category: 1. Parents
Glossary of terms – Taxis
Fare Status Estimated: The system calculates fares using geo-location and a standard rate of £2.21 per mile. This estimate provides a fully inclusive fare per passenger based on the calculated mileage. Fare Status Quoted: This is the fare provided by the taxi company, inclusive of all system-related costs. The quoted fare, displayed per passenger, includes […]
Get Me There
What is ‘Get Me There’? Instead of fixing a school coach time, ‘Get Me There’ allows parents to request school transport which will then be optimised to take the maximum number of students with the minimum wait times. This will be via coach, minibus or taxi. Because flight schedules change and students can’t always arrive […]
Booking a taxi
This video shows you how to book a taxi through I-GTM and talks through the various parameters and options. A detailed description of how taxi bookings work If the school has one approved supplier, the job will be sent to this supplier by default. The charge for the taxi will be added to your school […]
Booking on a date not shown in the list
If you are travelling on a date other than the official school arrival and departure dates shown in the list, you can pick the date from a calendar. Scroll to the bottom of the list of dates and click the button “Any date not shown above”. This brings up a calendar allowing you to pick […]
Can I edit a booking?
It is only possible to change the pickup time of a taxi. In all other cases, the booking must be cancelled and re-entered. Please see https://help.i-gtm.com/cancelling-a-booking/ for help. Why? I-GTM makes extensive use of external data through API’s connected to, among others, flight databases, train timetables and address look-ups. The majority of bookings taken by […]
Airport travel times
I need to book a taxi for a departing flight. What time should I book? You should allow ONE HOUR contingency for unforeseen traffic problems, plus TWO HOURS check-in and security time at the airport. You then need to add the standard drive time from school to airport – you can find this on Google […]
Sharing a taxi by using a share code
This walk-through video shows you how to use a share code to join in with another student in a taxi. Advanced use of the share feature allows the principal booker to pay for the entire taxi. To view this additional option, tick the box labelled “Privately share my taxi with friends…”. This exposes another tick […]
Taking a domestic flight to meet an international flight
Tutorial showing how to book a multi-leg journey involving a domestic flight to catch an international flight.
Easyjet flights
Easyjet flights can use one of two different airline codes, EZY and EJU. We find that often the flight lookup database doesn’t like the EJU airline code and will report that no flight can be found. We suggest that if the EJU flight is not found, you enter EZY and the same number. For example, […]