Uber’s new pickup directions and walking ETAs can finally help you escape the airport
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#69HPA)
Uber's app is adding walking directions inside airports to get you to the baggage claim and out the door. | Image: Uber We've somehow gone years without Uber holding our hands from the gate to the baggage claim area, out the door, and to an Uber pickup zone where a normal reserved Uber X ride is waiting for us. Now the company is making all of that possible: giving users full walking instructions - complete with photos - for various airports, adjusted ETA times that include walking to baggage claim, and expanding Uber Reserve options that includes booking rides up to 90 days in advance.
You're not just getting to and from the airport, but also getting through it with less stress," Uber's head of product for rides, Jen You, states in a press release. Step-by-step directions from gate to baggage claim to Uber pickup are rolling out to 30 airports worldwide...