SuperShuttle is going out of business • Hacker News Board

Re: SuperShuttle is going out of business

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Post by Aeolun » Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 4:57 AM UTC

mackey wrote: post #88

Aeolun wrote: post #85

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I think the good part about taxis is that I do not have to summon them at all. There’s always a line waiting wherever I want to leave from (except at LAX, because they don’t understand the concept of taxis... seriously, who takes a shuttle to their taxi, that’s insane).

That depends on the Airport and the time you arrive. I have definitely tried to take a taxi before only to be told "Big flight from XXX just arrived at terminal Z, they are routing all taxis there".

I think a good airport has one exit everyone leaves from, which will have one line of either waiting taxis, or people waiting for taxis.

Re: SuperShuttle is going out of business

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Post by highprofittrade » Sat, Dec 14, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

They had $20 dollar rebate that was really hard to claim and had relations with a shady company called Great Fun I'm sure pissed of many customers ...don't blame Uber or the new stuff... SuperShuttle thrived in era where there was little real competition but company had mismanagement issues, bad employees, and it was not innovative and when competition came along they just tanked

Re: SuperShuttle is going out of business

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Post by fnord77 » Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 12:40 AM UTC

ghaff wrote: post #6

fnord77 wrote: post #2

this is hardly surprising. a ride to SFO from my home using uber/lift is about $23. $19 using supershuttle. And I don't have to schedule anything or take a long van ride while other passengers are being dropped off. Very unfortunately for the mom & pop supershuttle franchisees, though, with van payments and a dried up source of income.

In the case of SFO, BART is also a pretty good alternative in a lot of cases since it was connected to the airport. I'm usually going into the general Moscone area and, while I used to take buses now and then, I doubt if I've done so in a decade. (And I take a taxi or Uber/Lyft for other locations that the shuttles mostly don't serve very well anyway.)

last time I rode BART from sfo, a crazy guy attacked a german tourist.

Re: SuperShuttle is going out of business

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Post by khuey » Sun, Dec 15, 2019, 2:37 PM UTC

jcranmer wrote: post #116

khuey wrote: post #50

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There's probably no more than twenty airports in the US with rail/subway connections. Notably the second busiest (LAX) does not have a rail connection but they're finally building one.

I count 25: Boston, Cleveland, Chicago O'Hare, Chicago Midway, Providence, JFK, LGA, Newark, Philly, BWI, DCA, Atlanta, SFO, Oakland, Denver, Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Portland, Seattle, Dallas/Fort-Worth, St. Louis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaukee, Salt Lake, Phoenix. If you include proposed or in construction links, there's also Honolulu, Washington Dulles, Orlando, LAX. There's also a few more airports that have bus…

Fort Lauderdale's rail link is basically the same as San Jose's: you take a shuttle bus connection to a rail station off airport grounds.

Re: SuperShuttle is going out of business

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Post by totalZero » Sat, Dec 21, 2019, 7:30 PM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #78

freddie_mercury wrote: post #17

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That's not what scheduling an Uber actually does, though. "The Scheduled Rides feature allows you to select a 10 minute window for a driver to come pick you up. At the start of the window, the app will send out a ride request on your behalf." So if you "schedule a ride" at 7pm, it is exactly the same as just using the app manually at 6:50pm. There is absolutely nothing remotely close to a guarantee that anyone will y…

I think we did a Lyft once where we scheduled the night before and a specific driver accepted the ride that evening, then showed up at the godawful time in the morning that we specified. It was basically like arranging a taxi, but through the app. Did that feature go away or get changed? It was a year or two ago.

That feature is still there. The guy to whom you replied was mistaken.