Transportation choices from Cancun Worldwide Airport will improve by the top of the yr with the current approval for Uber and different transportation corporations to choose up and drop off vacationers on the airport.
The Mexican Undersecretary of Infrastructure, Communications, and Transportation Rogelio Jiménez Pons lately made the announcement of an agreement that may permit the favored ride-share digital app to function within the nation’s airports.
Uber on the Airport
The lack of vacationers to take Uber to and from the airport has been a frustration for a lot of guests to the Mexican Caribbean.
Whereas it has been working in different areas round city, and within the vacationer zone, it should now be permitted to take vacationers to the airport and decide them as much as carry them to locations across the Mexican Caribbean.
In trade, Uber should pay the identical normal charges as the opposite transportation choices for vacationers at Cancun Worldwide Airport.
Together with Uber, different transportation choices akin to Didi and Cabify may also be out there for vacationers to select from.
Resolving the Battle
The settlement with the ride-share corporations will hopefully quiet the continuing feud between ride-share drivers and taxi drivers.
The battle between the transportation suppliers was aired publicly on social media with feedback and TikTok movies capturing the combat.
It turned aggressive resulting in bodily assaults on each ride-share and taxi drivers within the space.
Sadly, vacationers to Cancun and different locations within the Mexican Caribbean have been additionally usually caught in the midst of the combat between the 2 transportation suppliers.
Rising Competitors For Vacationers
The last word objective of the settlement to permit ride-share corporations and different transportation suppliers to function on the Cancun Worldwide Airport is to extend competitors and supply choices for vacationers visiting the seashore resort vacation spot.
Hopefully, vacationers will have the ability to get pleasure from extra choices, flexibility, transportation selections, and probably even decrease costs for transportation to and from the airport.
Whereas all airport transportation concessionaires should pay the identical normal passenger pick-up and drop-off charges to function on the airport, the precise price for the mileage lined will probably be as much as the transportation firm to find out.
That may also permit ride-share corporations to regulate pricing up and down relying on the height journey occasions, also called surge pricing within the business.
In response to a recent news report on the issue, some cab drivers in Cancun have been charging clients as a lot as $1,500 Mexican pesos (or about $83) for a one-way journey to the airport from the vacationer zone.
Some clients have remarked that the worth is an enormous chunk of their general transportation finances.
Suggestions For Cancun Vacationers
Guests to Cancun will quickly have extra choices to select from when arriving or departing from the worldwide airport.
A number of standard ride-sharing apps will present comfort and selection for vacationers visiting the Mexican Caribbean.
Together with the added competitors, hopes are that the costs will alter to grow to be extra favorable for vacationers looking for transportation choices.
Prior to now, with restricted transportation selections, vacationers have been compelled to pay what the principle supplier charged or discover different choices to get to and from the airport.
For a lot of vacationers, that first impression of a excessive transportation cost from the airport began their trip getaway to Cancun in a detrimental manner.
With the addition of transportation to and from the airport, Uber additionally introduced plans to broaden its standard Uber Eats service to the State of Quintana Roo, the place Cancun is positioned.
That may add extra alternatives for earnings for Uber drivers within the space, in addition to present extra handy meals and different supply providers for vacationers within the vacationer zone.
