Uber has been shown to charge different pricing based on the airline chosen for airport drop-offs. Like Delta, they too should be called before Congress.
Dynamic pricing is understandable when it’s based on the journey, time of travel, distance, traffic, and type of car – but not by the carrier for which you’re flying. The lone excuse that Uber could use at some airports is that it may take longer to get to one side of the airport than the other. For example, if there were no shortcut options at LAX (there are) and one had to go from Terminal 1 to enter the drop-off area and go all the way around to the other side (probably 20 minutes of slow moving traffic) to get to Terminal 8, that would be a justifiable difference in fare. But that would also speak to one of the three above reasons: time, distance, and traffic.
At my home airport, Pittsburgh, I wasn’t able to replicate the discrepancies on a sleepy Saturday afternoon. However, Nick Reyes of Frequent Miler, and MaxMilesPoints documented differences as recently as 12 days ago.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on Live and Let's Fly.
