Originally Posted by
christep
Again your experience is obviously somewhat dated. Payment has been to the driver now for at least a 15 months (although occasionally, for reasons I haven't been able to fathom, the cab stops at an office on the way out of the airport for payment to be made there - I suspect it may be if the driver is going off shirt after that run), and in that period I have never not seen a long line of cabs waiting.
My information isn't too dated. Although I usually have a driver pick me up now, the last time I used this service was about 6 months ago. I did pay the driver but he had to stop in the parking lot on the way out to pay someone. It took them a while to get change and the receipt. Previous to that I paid them at the stand and that took a while also.
I only went up to departures once to get a metered taxi but I know of others who do that on a regular basis. It does save about 350 pesos or more which might be only $7 but can go a long way over there.