Anything that lowers the cost for the customers is clearly bad. </sarcasm>
When New York taxi drivers refused to pick up passengers at JFK International Airport for an hour in protest of President Trump’s recent executive order, Uber continued to run and even dropped their surge pricing at the airport.
This made liberals furious.
The hashtag #DeleteUber soon started to trend on Saturday after Uber tweeted that it had removed the surge pricing about half an hour after the protests had started. Angry critics started accusing Uber of everything from trying to profit off the protests, to trying to break up the protests altogether.
https://twitter.com/Uber_NYC/status/825502908926066688
For those who don’t know, surge pricing is something that Uber and other services like it use to incentivize their drivers to go into areas where there is high demand by customers. The slightly higher prices mean more money for the drivers. Since areas like airports are often in higher demand for services like Uber, surge pricing helps to make sure that there are plenty of drivers there to meet that demand.
This means that by turning off the surge prices at JFK Airport, riders could get a cheaper ride than normal, but also that there could be less drivers willing to be there. At least, that’s all in theory.
Via MRCTV