Wav Sydney · Established 2017 · Sydney, New South Wales
Shafiullah Khaja drove a Sydney taxi before he founded Wav Sydney in 2017. The group now runs sixteen businesses: taxi, chauffeur, maxi cab and minibus brands, airport transfers, booking apps, workforce software, a digital agency and a disability support service.
Our businesses
Passengers couldn't get an accessible taxi, hotels had no easy way to book a cab for a guest, and drivers were stuck with dispatch equipment that slowed them down. The transport side of the group grew out of fixing problems like these.
How the group is organised
This is where the group started. Eight brands carry passengers every day. Between them they run standard and wheelchair accessible taxis, chauffeur cars, maxi cabs, minibuses and party buses with drivers, and transfers to Sydney Airport, the cruise terminals and Western Sydney International.
These came out of running a taxi business. Rigzie is a ride-booking app, TaxiBridge lets hotel staff book cabs for guests, and BookingLinkPro takes transfer bookings. CabAdvisor and Taxi Fare Calculator Sydney help travellers compare options and estimate a fare before they ride.
Two businesses that serve other companies. Secure Admin Pro handles attendance, leave and payroll. Just Smart IT Solutions builds websites and runs search, Google Ads and social media for its clients.
2 businesses
Heal Care helps people living with disability with everyday tasks and with getting out into their community. Support is planned around each person's needs.
1 business
The journey
Shafiullah Khaja drove a Sydney taxi before he ran a taxi company. Most of what Wav Sydney does differently comes from those years behind the wheel.
01 / 12
1997
Shafiullah Khaja moves to Australia from Hyderabad, India. He goes on to finish a Master's degree in Information Technology.
02 / 12
Before 2011
He works in logistics, including jobs at Linfox and Armaguard. Both run large fleets on tight schedules, and he sees how that planning is done from the inside.
03 / 12
2011
He starts driving a taxi in Sydney. Before long he knows exactly what the booking and dispatch systems are missing, because he is the one working around the gaps every shift.
04 / 12
2013
He founds Fast Maxi, a maxi cab service for groups, families, airport runs and cruise transfers.
05 / 12
2017
Shafiullah starts Wav Sydney Pty Ltd from the garage of his home, with his friend Mudassir Khan beside him, and Fast Maxi merges into the new company. Wav Sydney is registered in October 2017.
06 / 12
2018
WAV Cabs starts taking bookings across Sydney, run from the garage of Shafiullah's home.
07 / 12
2018
Technology
Wav Sydney moves Sydney Airport's taxi short-fare system at the Domestic terminal onto a tablet. Until then, drivers handled short-fare returns on the old in-car terminal.
08 / 12
2018
Technology
Wav Sydney takes its booking and dispatch system off the traditional radio room and in-car mobile data terminal and puts it on a digital tablet.
09 / 12
2019
WAV Cabs adds wheelchair accessible taxis to the fleet and starts taking wheelchair bookings.
10 / 12
2020
COVID stops Sydney almost overnight. Flights are grounded and cruise ships stop coming, so most of the airport and cruise work disappears. Coming back is slow and hard, and the business is rebuilt one booking at a time.
11 / 12
Every day
The transport brands carry passengers to Sydney Airport and the cruise terminals, take party bus bookings through Fast Maxi, WAV Maxi Cabs and WAV Minibus, and run everyday trips across the city. On Google, Fast Maxi is rated 4.9 and WAV Cabs and WAV Maxi Cabs 4.8, across more than 1,900 reviews.
12 / 12
2026
WSI Airport Taxi serves the new Western Sydney International Airport. The group now runs sixteen businesses across transport, booking technology, business software and care.
Photos are cropped, darkened and softened for this page. They illustrate the story and are not photos of Wav Sydney vehicles or staff.
Leadership
"I started Wav Sydney because I believed drivers deserved a say in how that system was built."
Shafiullah KhajaFounder and Director, Wav Sydney
Meet the founderOperations
Bookings come in and jobs go out to drivers from the Wav Sydney control room, around the clock, for the group's transport brands.
24/7 control room
For organisations
A hotel might use TaxiBridge for guest pickups and WAV Minibus for a wedding party. An employer might run payroll on Secure Admin Pro and book staff travel with WAV Cabs. Send us one enquiry and we work out which businesses fit.
Staff, client and executive travel across Sydney on one account.
Delivered by WAV Cabs, Wav Platinum, Fast Maxi and 2 more
Vehicles and drivers for passengers who travel in their wheelchair.
Delivered by WAV Cabs, WAV Maxi Cabs, Fast Maxi and 1 more
Sydney Airport, Western Sydney International and the cruise terminals.
Delivered by WSI Airport Taxi, WAV Cabs, WAV Maxi Cabs and 4 more
A booking platform for front desks and transport partners.
Delivered by TaxiBridge, BookingLinkPro
Attendance, leave, payroll and staff records in one system.
Delivered by Secure Admin Pro
Everyday living support and community participation.
Delivered by Heal Care
This is the group's corporate site. Bookings are made directly with our transport brands.
Choose a transport brand
News and insights
The new airport changes where many Sydney journeys begin and end. What Transport for NSW has said about taxis at the terminal, and how the group's WSI Airport Taxi brand serves it.
By Wav Sydney
The sixteen businesses in the group, what each one does and who to contact.
By Wav Sydney
Work with Wav Sydney
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