Dulles ping, not in the lot

[bart2puck]

I just got a ping for Dulles. I'm over in ashburn....

 

[nutzareus]

Maybe no one is waiting in the bullpen.

 

[bart2puck]

Maybe, find that hard to believe though.

 

[KGB7]

Thats because Uber system is screwed up.

I got pings even though other 10 drivers got to the cell phone lot before me.

 

[bart2puck]

I am sitting in the IAD lot right now, and just got 2 requests outside (brambleton and ashburn). Why? does my queue status reset for airport runs?

/frustrated.

 

[Uberest]

I don't get it. I received a ping from outside a rental car company, right on the street up from the lot. In thinking about this, I may have been physically the closest uberx to him, as I was in a parking space at the edge of the lot closest to the rental car companies. I have yet to receive a bona fide ping from an arriving passenger where the pick up can be made at arrivals or the short term lot, since uber made their 9/1 announcement.

And at DCA, yesterday, 2d time this happened, I dropped off a pax and immediately received a ping to pick up a pax also at DCA.

 

[bart2puck]

That is what probably is happening to me too. 5am ashburn is dead for drivers. My problem is, I am at airport, I don't want to drive around. I want airport pickups.

On your second note, I have been fairly successful at getting pings. Sometimes the waits are longer then I would like. 45-1hour. But they payoff has been pretty good. Most rides are a good distance and out me near city for rest of day...

 

[KGB7]

Got ping from car rental as well but I was in the middle of the lot.

Before the new rule, I got a ping from Airspace museum. It was a long ride back to DC.

 

[bart2puck]

Confirmed with uber support, u will get non-airport pings. If u cancel those. Queue resets.

 

[ademola77]

glitch in the system. Most of the time, it's the other way around. You sit in the waiting lot for an hr and start getting pings from chantilly/sterling and get kicked off for not accepting them. There are times if you are driving around sterling/reston area, you will get pings from the airport, and really start scratching your head when u drive by a lot full of uber drivers as u leave the airport. This surprisingly happens alot.

 

[UberRalph]

This thread is a year old...

 

[Jo3030]

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