Welcome to AFF, thanks for contributingHi I’m a Uber driver in cairns and we have our own group. It’s not the legit drivers it’s actually the taxi drivers, they all have two phones and accept a Uber ride only to cancel and they all do it together knowing that the customer will get upset and decide to go to the taxi rank which is now directly across the road.
I will admit that their are Uber drivers that do pretty much the same to try and create a surge for a larger fare. I have had some of them come up to me after I have dropped a passenger offf at the airport and have gone to the waiting area and ask me to turn my app off.
Cairns airport and Uber moved the waiting area and the pickup area so now for both waiting and pickup we are directly opposite each other and since then the surge tactic is even worse as so many of the one group know each other and work both Uber and taxi and have access to both.
Just recently most taxis in cairns have placed a sign on their vehicles saying No Surge Charges.
After 25 years as a GM for a very respectful company I drive to pass time while my partner is working and as I’ve travelled to 27 countries I love picking up tourists from all around the world.
Happy to discuss and open up all the honest drivers know.
The Uber app when we drop someone at the airport tells us how many Ubers are waiting in line before you, so often it will tell me 1-5 and there is 18 in the queue.
Regards
A
So the finger of cartel behaviour is pointing to taxi drivers, the plot twist! Makes plenty of sense
just wondering being Uber-naive, surely there can only be a limited number of times for a Uber driver to cancel a ride before being flagged and banned, and limited avenue for a driver to apply for an Uber driver account?
So unless a large number of taxi drivers are doing this to spread the love and minimise the risk of getting their Uber account suspended (and needing to apply for a new one) otherwise how can this go on for years (just search other online social media forums reddit etc) , the situation in cairns, not just CNS, is so bad that it attracts an ABC News journalist’s attention Why are so many Uber drivers cancelling?, and
how Uber doesn’t realise what’s going on at CNS (surely the number of cancellation at a specific location is disproportionate to the size of the region it serves) and
more interestedly how another top status cairns Uber driver who also recently just joined the AFF to contribute either did not know or did not share this knowledge?
Not accusing of anything here, just asking questions
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