Can I get a ride with Uber from an airport? Yes, you can request a ride to and from most major airports around the world. Go to our airports page to see the locations we serve. Can I pay for an Uber trip with cash? In most cities, Uber is designed to be a cashless experience. If you prefer, you can give your driver a tip in cash. Longest Uber ride in history: Chinese businessmen make record-setting trip to catch a meeting. Record-setting 650 mile trip from Dallas to Nashville took over 11 hours. In a related video: An Uber passenger hurls racist abuse and rape claims at driver.
Most people take an Uber to cross their neighborhood, or maybe their city. And then there are the brave, free-spending few who ask the ride-sharing service to carry them across states.
A few days ago, the New York Postpublished the tale of Janis Rogers. This 64-year-old Uber driver picked up a rider in Williamsburg, VA, who wanted to go to her boyfriend's place in the Brooklyn, NY neighborhood of Bed-Stuy. That's a trip of nearly 400 miles and eight hours that amounted to a fare of $294.
The Post said Rogers' misadventure 'is believed to be the longest Uber ride on record.' But after the paper proclaimed this, other Uber drivers began to come forward with tales of even longer impromptu road trips. That's according to The Outline, which today described a new contender for the throne.
According to that post, the title truly belongs to Uber driver Kevin Jones of Omaha, NE. Jones told Outline that in October, a woman had him drive 550 miles from Omaha to Denver, a trip that took less than seven and a half hours (you can drive fast across Nebraska) but tallied a fare of $877, including nearly $300 of extra cost because of surge pricing.
Until Uber itself releases official data about the longest trips, we may never know for certain who's the winner; maybe there's a Colorado-to-California trip out there that could top Jones's. We may also never know just what these customers were thinking. In both of these cases they could have made the trip by plane, train, or bus for much less money.
An Uber driver might have earned nearly $1,000 with one drive.
Brent Pfieffer received a notification on his cellphone on Sunday night about passengers requesting a pickup at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
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Soon after accepting the request, Pfieffer got a phone call from one of the customers.
“They said, ”˜I have an issue here. I need these people delivered to Nashville, Tennessee,’” Pfieffer told WFAA.
The customers were travelers from China who had arrived in Texas on Sunday morning. Their connecting flight to Nashville had been delayed multiple times before it was finally canceled.
“The next flight they could get on wasn’t until Monday afternoon,” Pfieffer told WFAA. “And they had a business meeting at noon Monday they had to be at.”
The passengers piled into Pfieffer’s SUV, and the group rode 11.5 hours to Nashville, covering 650 miles.
“We had a few stops on the way,” Pfieffer said. “They spoke enough broken English [so] we could converse. They were in a good mood. They were upset they didn’t have their bags and didn’t get the flight, but other than that it was a fun ride.”
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Pfieffer said Uber still hasn’t processed the fare but he estimates he’ll receive about $800 from the ride after Uber claims its share of the fare. He also negotiated gas expenses with the customers.
The ride is believed to be one of the longest Uber drives completed.