Uber has launched a brand new airport-only fare choice in its ride-sharing app known as UberXXL. It surpasses UberXL’s single X by guaranteeing rides with trunk area that may deal with massive households with numerous large luggage — no extra sitting on the curb attempting to determine what to do subsequent.
The brand new choice is offered right this moment at greater than 60 airports worldwide, with extra coming down the street. By way of pricing, UberXXL will sit someplace between UberXL and Uber Black, the corporate says. XXL additionally provides a stopgap earlier than Uber Shuttle, the charter-style choice it launched in New York final month that permits you to e book as much as 5 seats for a visit to the airport with discounted charges and safety in opposition to surge pricing.
There’s additionally a brand new Uber widget that can allow you to request rides to your most frequented areas, resembling work and residential, immediately out of your iPhone’s house display screen. And once you use Uber Reserve to preschedule a experience to an airport, a brand new Flight Seize function helps you to enter your flight particulars to obtain beneficial depart occasions It might additionally immediate riders to regulate if a flight is delayed, and schedule a number of stops alongside the best way.
Uber can be increasing the supply of UberX Share rides, which provide decrease charges for splitting the experience with as much as one different traveler, to pick out airports, together with EWR, IAD, SFO, and some others. If it could actually’t discover a rider who’s going your path inside 5 minutes of requesting the experience, Uber will allow you to journey alone with the low cost.
