Uber has new shuttle routes for NYC vacationers. Lower than six months after launching bus rides between LaGuardia Airport and Manhattan, the corporate is including 4 routes between John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK) and Manhattan.
Starting on Thursday, you’ll be able to e-book as much as 4 seats for one of many new routes. You possibly can reserve them as early as seven days upfront or as late as two minutes earlier than you hop on. Every bus has a 14-passenger restrict at launch. Very similar to your flight, you’ll be able to convey one piece of bags weighing as much as 50 lbs and a private merchandise that matches in your lap or underneath your seat. Whenever you get onboard, the motive force will confirm your id with a QR code and PIN.
The 4 new routes embrace stops at both Port Authority Terminal and Grand Central Terminal or Chinatown and Atlantic Terminal. Every of these two Manhattan programs is break up into two extra routes — one to JFK's Terminal 4 and one other to Terminal 5. They run each half-hour, from 5AM to 10:45PM, all week.
The JFK shuttles will usually value "as much as $25" for a method, however Uber is launching the brand new rides with introductory one-way pricing of $10 via April 30.
Uber says it's booked lots of of 1000’s of shuttle seats because it launched its LaGuardia routes final fall. Though it may be a helpful method to get round (and cheaper than hailing a cab), there's a free public transit shuttle operating between the airport and the subway. As Redditor u/Kufat opined about Uber's shuttles in October, "That is for vacationers who assume they'll get stabbed the second they enter the subway."
This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/transportation/uber-adds-new-shuttle-rides-between-jfk-airport-and-manhattan-100039821.html?src=rss
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