At Shanghai’s Pudong airport, it was seven hours. At Beijing’s Daxing, it was eight and at Tianfu airport in Chengdu, it stretched to 10 hours.In the absence of official statistics, a straw poll on the length of time that some drivers were willing to wait for a fare at airport taxi ranks provides a glimpse of the deep dislocations in China’s vast labour market.“I go [home] to shower, do laundry and then drive back to the airport to queue,” says Hou Feng, a licensed taxi driver in Guangzhou, who ...