NYC Ride-sharing Price War as low as $5

by PointsGuru | Jul 28, 2015 | Taxi Rideshare & Rentals

For a limited time, pay only $5 for Lyft Line rides requested and taken south of 97th Street within Manhattan. Lyft Line matches you with others traveling the same way. Share the ride, pay less. Better yet, with Line your trip price is set from the get-go, and is always less than original Lyft. Even if you don’t match with another passenger, your trip price is set at $5 when you’re riding solo. Bring a friend, and it’s just $1 extra.
BONUS if you are new to Lyft: Get any LYFT Ride FREE Here

$10 Flat Rate uberPOOL Rides in Manhattan
For a limited time, Uber is offering $10 flat rate rides in Manhattan below 96th St with uberPOOL. Uber competitor Gett has been doing this and they are just now catching up. You may end up sharing a ride with someone but the rate is still $10 even if you ride alone. Let’s hope that Uber reaches its goal of taking 1 million cars off the road in NYC. Other competition includes Lyft Line similar to UberPool but you may wait longer and its more expensive.
BONUS If you are a new to UBER: Get any free ride up to $20.

Via is yet another services offering $5 Rides from 110th St to Houston Street from 6:30am to 9pm. This covers most of Manhattan. If you are skilled enough to be a driver you can also get a $1k bonus from Via. This could be an up and coming contender to Uber and Lyft.

Other services in NYC include GETT and Taxi on-demand if you wish to read further to compare them all.

Starbucks Freebies for Riding Lyft

by PointsGuru | Jul 23, 2015 | Taxi Rideshare & Rentals

Lyft is finally catching up to Uber when it comes to rewards incentives and this one is one of the best I have seen yet. According to the New York Times you will soon be able to get FREE Starbucks drinks for riding Lyft. The new partnership between Starbucks and Lyft will reward both drivers and passengers.

Uber has partnered with Starwood Hotels and Capital One for some great incentives so far this year. With this new Lyft promotion is like no other because you can earn Starbucks stars when you take rides with Lyft and achieve Starbucks Gold Status.

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$5 Off Airport Rides With Lyft Promo Code

by PointsGuru | Jul 23, 2015 | Taxi Rideshare & Rentals

The battle for airport to and from rides is heating up with ridesharing now available at some destinations. No matter if you can get a Lyft or Uber when you land at baggage claim you can always get dropped off easily. The ridesharing service Lyft is offering $5 off two Lyft airport rides to or from featured airports. The promo codes below are valid today 7/23/15 to 9/8/15.

How to get this offer:
1. Download the Lyft App if you do not already have it. Click here for a Free $20 Credit on top of the $5 airport credit you will receive.
2. Open your Lyft app and tap the menu button in the upper left corner
Click “Payment”.
3. At the bottom, click “Add credit code” and enter any of the codes for your airports you will be using.
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Uber and Lyft finally welcome at major airports DFW and LAX!

by PointsGuru | Jul 23, 2015 | Taxi Rideshare & Rentals

Just Last year Nashville International Airport became the first major U.S. airport to allow Uber and Lyft pickups (legally). Although some Uber and Lyft drivers will still come pick you up at DFW, Love Field, and LAX even though they were not allowed and were threatened to be ticketed in some cases. The Uber and Lyft apps will soon allow pickups at DFW and LAX airports. Two of the worlds largest airports. The service is “cheaper than a taxi, and usually quite a bit nicer,” is normally what you get when comparing a Checker cab or Yellow cab to a ride-share service.

Uber is already dominating cabs in the competition for business trips, a trend that has only continued since the City Council’s new transportation-for-hire ordinance went into effect three months ago making it legal. The local taxi industry has been disrupted, with one major exception being the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where cabs and other older transportation companies including the limos and shuttles still enjoy the same competition-squelching protections they have always had. Uber users have been known to change their location on the app from DFW airport where you could not hail a ride to just offsite then telling the driver to meet them at the terminal.

DFW rolls out new regulations for ride sharing on August 1 that will allow these apps to compete for airport passengers. DFW is one huge taxi Eden with 63 million annual airline passengers, many of whom need rides and because it was built in the middle of no where between Dallas and Fort Worth and is far from whatever the rider’s final destination. In 2013, it collected more than $8 million in fees from taxi companies, which suggests that the taxi companies themselves are making at least in the tens of millions.

Back to LAX the typical taxi trip from LAX to downtown Los Angeles is more than $50, not including tip. In periods of low demand, Uber or Lyft rides are closer to $30, but that can rise sharply during peak periods. You can also get a Wing ride which has no surge rates for $35 one-way.

Some argue that dynamic pricing has put cab drivers at a disadvantage because taxi fares are set by city officials and do not fluctuate. Although a lot of consumers are fed up with constant scams from cabbies and rarely have problems with Uber or Lyft.