Hi new to posting but have done a good number of LAX airport trips but hadn't run into this situation:
1. Passenger picked up 5 miles from airport with a request to go to LAX AirCanada.
2. Says she wants me to not drop her off but pick up a passenger (at arrivals which I said I definitely couldn't do).
3. Then change the destination to drive the 5 miles back to where I picked her up with the airport passenger (2 riders in total).
1. Is this allowed? Its unclear in the rules but definitely doesn't sound right to me.
2. She argued that it would not be different if she left her ID/Passport at home and I had to take her back to get it.
3. She says she's done it all the time and proceeded to tell me I don't know the rules about LAX and that it "logically doesn't make sense that you're not allowed to "pick-up" on a "drop-off" request. Especially since Uber allows her to change the address once I've entered LAX.
I told her I wouldn't do it because the $1,000 ticket risk is too high. She also wanted me to take off my sticker/placard, go to arrivals etc. Besides the clearly illegal part, if I picked up at arrivals in the proper location is that allowed?
Anyway, are there any clear rules on this? Anybody done this before?
Getting a real answer from Uber support is never going to happen with the level of customer service representatives answering questions (they can barely write coherent English so not sure they'd understand my question).
I don't know is they're written anywhere as such but my belief from reading other people's experiences etc. is that as of now UberDrivers are never to be downstairs in the horseshoe.
Having said that, why didn't she just do it normal and have the pickup address be the terminal, etc etc?
edit: did she want to go with you to pick up the pax?
Probably the lady was picking up someone who doesn't know how to navigate the airport or use Uber or didn't want to wait for an Uber to come from the staging lot.
She says she does it all the time, taking a ride to LAX to personally pick up someone else and then leave in the same request same car after picking them up.
it's probably just to personally pick up someone, can't imagine it saves money to go both ways than pay the $4 extra airport fee. It wasn't surging at the time or at least not more than 1.2 or so.
Probably the lady was picking up someone who doesn't know how to navigate the airport or use Uber or didn't want to wait for an Uber to come from the staging lot.
She says she does it all the time, taking a ride to LAX to personally pick up someone else and then leave in the same request same car after picking them up.
it's probably just to personally pick up someone, can't imagine it saves money to go both ways than pay the $4 extra airport fee. It wasn't surging at the time or at least not more than 1.2 or so.
Hi new to posting but have done a good number of LAX airport trips but hadn't run into this situation:
1. Passenger picked up 5 miles from airport with a request to go to LAX AirCanada.
2. Says she wants me to not drop her off but pick up a passenger (at arrivals which I said I definitely couldn't do).
3. Then change the destination to drive the 5 miles back to where I picked her up with the airport passenger (2 riders in total).
1. Is this allowed? Its unclear in the rules but definitely doesn't sound right to me.
2. She argued that it would not be different if she left her ID/Passport at home and I had to take her back to get it.
3. She says she's done it all the time and proceeded to tell me I don't know the rules about LAX and that it "logically doesn't make sense that you're not allowed to "pick-up" on a "drop-off" request. Especially since Uber allows her to change the address once I've entered LAX.
I told her I wouldn't do it because the $1,000 ticket risk is too high. She also wanted me to take off my sticker/placard, go to arrivals etc. Besides the clearly illegal part, if I picked up at arrivals in the proper location is that allowed?
Anyway, are there any clear rules on this? Anybody done this before?
Getting a real answer from Uber support is never going to happen with the level of customer service representatives answering questions (they can barely write coherent English so not sure they'd understand my question).
Maybe she was a former uber driver whose rating took a plunge and decided to boss you around cuz she knows what shes doing and bend the rules a little bit.
rule?
couldn't she just call the dude and tell him to meet the uber and herself upstairs at the departure area terminal 3 (ride service pick up B or C) for the pickup?
going the other way
people do this all the time going TO the airport
pick up passenger #1, he says we need to pickup my buddy passenger #2 down the road
and then go to the airport
It could have been worse, getting a regular LAX pickup only to find out you're picking up the account holder's buddy, then having to play phone tag to get the warm body to the correct pickup spot. The only thing you could do was say, "I can only do business at departures" and then let your fare heard their cats or take a hike.
This doesn't match the hilarity I had a few weeks back. I get a LAX request out of the holding pen, United-T7, so I call up the fare as usual to make sure that they're at the correct pickup spot. Pax says, "I'm at terminal C, terminal C!!" To respond, "I'm sorry, there is no terminal C at LAX." Pax says, "Oh crap, I'm in Houston, no wonder!!" Dumbass had actually requested to the wrong airport. You can't make this up.
A while back, I got an LAX request from Terminal 5. I go up and there's no passenger. I call, "Hey, where are you?" He says, "I'm at Delta, next to Jet Blue." Delta is T5, Jet Blue is T3, can't be, right? I ask him, "What airport are you at?" He tells me, "San Diego." Goofball.
Couple of weeks ago during the LAX protests I had a pax to pick up from Delta. I called him and told him due to the protests I wouldn't be able to get to E but I could meet him at F and he said fine, he'd walk right down. I waited and waited...
It's really my fault. I should have been more clear on how to get to F but I couldn't even imagine somebody being so stupid to walk into the middle of all those protestors and thinking that's the right direction. I wonder what they thought of him dragging his suitcase around
I had a drop during the protests that was going to American-T4. He got so fed up he had me drop him at United and he walked back. Right after I picked up a pair from the Hyatt, they had walked there all the way from Tom Bradley.
There's nothing wrong having your pax walk if they can. I've done it on the street too. Just say at this point it would be faster for you to hoof it home. I'll take you there if you want but... They're not in a cocoon. They see the other traffic. Besides they're usually so tired of hearing about how Thomas Jefferson was really a theist they're delighted to get out and walk that last block.
Picked up a guy off of 3rd street. Went to lax to pick up his GF then back to his hotel in SM. I did the ride. Told him to tell her to meet us upstairs and let us know which door number to meet her at.
Plane was late. We were early. We waited app on for her. I picked up some water and snacks at the liquor store and we chatted while we waited.
Good ride. Nice guy. 3 blocks of dead miles.
Now being at the airport and doing it is a bit messed up unless she tipped. The only advantage of doing this is to bipass the lax fee of $4.
Maybe the person arriving didn't know how to use the app and the lady drove down and was too scared too drive in and pick up her friend?
Yeah, weird request, but nothing surprises me anymore.
The four dollar fee is applied to drpp offs as well, unless you went through without putting LAX as the drop off to start.
As long as you have the placard, you could drop her off wherever and pick her up at a designated pick up. The impossible part would be her getting there before the cops kicked you out for waiting too long. Unless she had someone handing her something at curb side. Then you would be in the clear. But definitely not all the other crap she was tellong you: remove placards, go to arrivals.
Hi new to posting but have done a good number of LAX airport trips but hadn't run into this situation:
1. Passenger picked up 5 miles from airport with a request to go to LAX AirCanada.
2. Says she wants me to not drop her off but pick up a passenger (at arrivals which I said I definitely couldn't do).
3. Then change the destination to drive the 5 miles back to where I picked her up with the airport passenger (2 riders in total).
1. Is this allowed? Its unclear in the rules but definitely doesn't sound right to me.
2. She argued that it would not be different if she left her ID/Passport at home and I had to take her back to get it.
3. She says she's done it all the time and proceeded to tell me I don't know the rules about LAX and that it "logically doesn't make sense that you're not allowed to "pick-up" on a "drop-off" request. Especially since Uber allows her to change the address once I've entered LAX.
I told her I wouldn't do it because the $1,000 ticket risk is too high. She also wanted me to take off my sticker/placard, go to arrivals etc. Besides the clearly illegal part, if I picked up at arrivals in the proper location is that allowed?
Anyway, are there any clear rules on this? Anybody done this before?
Getting a real answer from Uber support is never going to happen with the level of customer service representatives answering questions (they can barely write coherent English so not sure they'd understand my question).
I've done pick up another pax like that before in Vegas,
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