Originally Posted by
Ditto
I've only once took a taxi from TLV airport (for the rest I just used Gett or had a rental car), did I just get "lucky" that they accepted a card?
I can appreciate normal taxis might not accept cards but it would seem odd for the ones waiting at the airport not to
You did indeed get lucky.
Not weird at all that airport taxis don't accept cards. They're no different than any other taxi in the country and why would a taxi driver pay to have a card machine and pay a fee for accepting a card if no regulations/laws make them do so? Customer service isn't a driving factor, unfortunately, in Israeli monopolistic business decisions.