Uber Shuttle will get you to JFK airport for $10

Uber’s shuttle to JFK runs each 30 minutes.

Uber is expanding its airport shuttle service to see 1 of the busiest hubs successful the world, New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. For a constricted time, customers tin drawback a thrust from circumstantial stops successful Manhattan oregon Brooklyn to JFK for conscionable $10. After April 30th, the fare increases to $25, including taxes.

Airport runs are a important portion of Uber’s business, and customers person expressed vexation astatine the rising outgo of booking a car to the airport. JFK, successful particular, is 1 of the astir costly airports for travelers, with Uber and Lyft trips costing $80 oregon more, depending connected the pickup location. By bundling riders unneurotic successful a shuttle, Uber hopes to present a much affordable enactment to budget-conscious customers.

For JFK trips, customers tin usage the Uber app to publication up to 4 seats successful a shuttle. Rides tin beryllium booked up to 7 days up of clip oregon simply connected the time you request it. Riders volition get their pricing upfront earlier booking and won’t beryllium taxable to surge pricing.

When the shuttle arrives, riders volition validate their preservation with the operator via QR codification and a unsocial PIN. At launch, vehicles volition beryllium constricted to conscionable 14 passengers. Each rider is allowed 1 idiosyncratic item, similar a purse oregon backpack, and 1 portion of luggage (carry-on oregon checked) weighing up to 50 pounds. Riders tin complaint and extremity drivers successful the app, conscionable similar a mean Uber trip.

Uber says it volition run 4 routes to JFK, with pickup locations astatine Port Authority, Grand Central Terminal, Chinatown, and Atlantic Center successful Brooklyn. The work volition tally each 30 minutes from 5AM to 10:45PM, 7 days a week. For its shuttle business, Uber is partnering with fleet providers who negociate commercially licensed drivers. In New York, the institution is utilizing ETS, an airdrome shuttle relation since 1996.

Uber has been experimenting with shuttle work for airports and concerts, including $15 rides to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour performance successful Miami past year. The institution besides launched an $18 shuttle to LaGuardia Airport past year. (That terms is present $20.) For airdrome trips, the institution needs to negociate presumption with airdrome operators earlier a caller work tin beryllium launched. Uber said it’s presently successful talks with Boston’s Logan International Airport astir bringing its shuttle work there.